Lady Margaret DE HOLLAND Duchess of Clarence [7425] ¹⁷⁵²

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  General Notes:

Margaret de Holland, Countess of Somerset (1385-31 December 1439) was the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, who was the son of Joan "the Fair Maid of Kent" (granddaughter of Edward I of England, wife of Edward the Black Prince and mother of Richard II of England). Margaret's mother was Alice FitzAlan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster.

Margaret married John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, son of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and his mistress Katherine Swynford. They had six children:

1.) Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (c. 1401-25 November 1418).

2.) John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (baptized 25 March 1404-27 May 1444).

3.) Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche (c. 1405-1431).

4.) Lady Joan Beaufort (c. 1406-15 July 1445), who married James I of Scotland and Sir James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn.

5.) Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (c. 1406-22 May 1455).

6.) Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Devon (c. 1409-1449), married Thomas de Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon.

In 1399, she was invested as a Lady Companion, Order of the Garter (L.G.). After Beaufort died in 1410 (in the Tower of London), she married his nephew Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, the son of King Henry IV. They had no children. She died on 31 December 1439 at St. Saviour's Abbey, Bermondsey, in London, England. Margaret and both her husbands are buried together in a carved alabaster tomb in Canterbury Cathedral that shows her lying between the two of them.

Descendants
Through her son, the 1st Duke of Somerset, Lady Margaret is an ancestress to the Tudor monarchs. Both Lady Joan, Queen consort of Scotland, and the Duke of Somerset, are ancestors of King George I of Great Britain. As such, both children are ancestors to the current British royal family.

Lady Margaret's sister, Alianore Holland, the Countess of March is also a direct ancestor of George Washington, 1st President of the United States of America.

  Death Notes:

St Saviour's Monastery,

  Burial Notes:

Canterbury Cathedral, St. Michael's Chapel with her husband

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Royal House: Holland, on an unknown date,. ¹⁷⁵⁵

2. Title Of Nobility: Duchess Of Clarence, Countess of Somerset, Marchioness of Dorset Holand, on an unknown date,. ¹⁷⁵⁵

Margaret married Sir John BEAUFORT of Lancaster [7424] [MRIN: 5652], son of John of Gaunt 1st Duke of Lancaster [7429] and Katherine DE ROËT Duchess of Lancaster [7430]. (Sir John BEAUFORT of Lancaster [7424] was born in 1373 in Chateau de Beaufort, Goudet, Haute-Loire, France,¹⁷⁵² died on 16 March 1410 in Precinct of St Katherine, London, Middlesex, England ¹⁷⁵² and was buried in Canterbury, , Kent, England ¹⁷⁵².)

Margaret next married Thomas PLANTAGENET of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence [7438] [MRIN: 5656] in November 1411.¹⁷⁵⁵ (Thomas PLANTAGENET of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence [7438] was born on 29 September 1388 in London, , , England,¹⁷⁵⁵ died on 22 March 1421 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France ¹⁷⁵⁵ and was buried on 22 March 1421 in Canterbury, , Kent, England ¹⁷⁵⁵.)