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Holand, John de (1350 - 1399/1400)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1350 (possibly ca. 1352)
Death Date: 1400-01-10 (possibly died 9 Jan. 1399/1400)

Notes

Under guardianship of John de la Haye, yeoman to the Black Prince, 1360; possessions & positions confiscated July 1385 (after killing Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford’s eldest son Sir Ralph de Stafford); pardoned 8 Feb. 1385/6; goods & chattels restored 17 March 1385/6; imprisoned Hertford 20 Oct. 1399; tried & stripped of all gains since July 1397, 3 Nov. 1399; arrested & imprisoned at Pleshy Castle, Essex for attempting to overthow Henry IV. executed, attainted Jan. 1400/1 (for treason)

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: 1386-6-24
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: The first child of this union was conceived while Elizabeth was still married to her first husband, the Earl of Pembroke

Offspring

  1. Mother unknown

Primary Title

  • 1st Duke of Exeter

Titles

  • 13th Earl of Huntingdon
    Assumed: 1388-16-02
    Vacated: 1399/1400-01-10
  • 1st Duke of Exeter
    Assumed: 1397-09-29
    Vacated: 1399-11-03
  • Knight
    Assumed: 1380
    Vacated: 1399/1400-01-09
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1381
    Vacated: 1399/1400-01-09
  • 16th Earl of Arundel
    Assumed: 1397-09-28
    Vacated: 1399/1400-01-09

General Lands Note

Life interest in Duchy of Cornwall estates granted by Richard II, lost 22 Dec. 1399

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Justice, Cheshire 1381 -5 -6 1385 -07 Deprived of office after killing Sir Ralph de Stafford, son and heir to 2nd Earl of Stafford
Constable, Cornwall 1388/9 -1 -6 1399/1400 -01 -10 For life
Admiral of the West, England 1389 -5 -18
Captain, France 1389 -6 -1 1392
King's Chamberlain, England 1389/90 -2 1390 -09 Possibly identical to Chamberlain of the Household
JP, Devon 1390 1392
Lord Chamberlain, England 1390 -5 -31 1399/1400 -01 -10 For life
Keeper & Steward, Northamptonshire 1391 -4 -19 1399/1400 -01 -10 For life
Keeper, Herefordshire 1391/2 -1 -10 1399/1400 -01 -10 For life
JP, Devon 1393/4
Constable, Caernarvonshire 1394 -9 -3 1397/8 -02 -25
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cornwall 1396/7
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Buckinghamshire 1396/7
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Bedfordshire 1396/7
Governor, Cumberland 1396/7 -2 -16
JP, Cornwall 1396/7
Warden, Marches towards Scotland, West March 1396/7 -2 -16
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Sussex 1397
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Surrey 1397
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Westmorland 1397
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Norfolk 1397
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Huntingdonshire 1397
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cumberland 1397
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1397
Constable, Sussex 1397 -8 -7
JP, Devon 1397
JP, Westmorland 1397
JP, Bedfordshire 1397
JP, Buckinghamshire 1397
JP, Cumberland 1397
JP, Warwickshire 1397 1399
JP, Coventry 1397 1399
JP, Huntingdonshire 1397
JP, Norfolk 1397
JP, Sussex 1397
JP, Surrey 1397
Captain and Keeper, France 1397/8 -2 -6 1399/1400 -01 -9 Appointed for fifteen years
JP, Herefordshire 1397/8
JP, Norfolk 1398/9
JP, Cornwall 1398/9

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Coldharbour, London (city-county)
    Also called Pultney's Inn or Pultney House
  • Pultney House, London (city-county)
  • Berkhampstead Castle, Hertfordshire
    Acquired: 1388-10
    Possibly occupied after 1360-76
  • Dartington Hall, Devon
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1388-06

Lands

  • Bedfordshire: Stevington Manor
    Acquired: 1385
    Granted by mother
  • Berkshire: Ardington & Philberts Court Manors at East Hanney
    Acquired: 1378-12-18
    Divested: 1399/1400-01-09
    Granted, found invalid, but held for life; Ardington granted in fee 19 June 1385
  • Caernarvonshire: Conway Castle
    Acquired: 1394-09-03
  • Carmarthenshire: Kidwelly Castle and Manor; Caregcennan Manor and Castle
    Acquired: 1399
    Divested: 1399
    Caregcennan Manor & Castle possibly in another county; both granted by King from Lancashire lands in early 1399 and forfeited later that year
  • Cheshire: Northwich Manor and Town
    Acquired: 1380-08-22
  • Cornwall
    Acquired: 1388-07-16
    One manor
  • Cornwall: Bossiney Borough
    Acquired: 1395-07
    This manor and another borough
  • Cornwall: Helston in Trigare Manor; Lanteglos and Helsbury Parks
  • Cornwall: Tintagel Castle and Manor
    Acquired: 1388/9-01-06
    These lands and two other manors
  • Derbyshire: Horeston Castle
    Acquired: 1391-09-29
    Divested: 1399/1400-01-09
    For life
  • Devon: Harberton Manor
  • Devon: Staverton Manor
    Acquired: 1397
    Bequeathed
  • Devon: Winkleigh Manor
    Acquired: 1392-06
    Divested: 1399-09
  • Essex: North Weald Bassett Manor
    Acquired: 1360-03
    Divested: 1385
    Granted by parents
  • Flintshire: Hope and Hopedale Lordship
    Acquired: 1380-08-22
  • Glamorgan: Ogmore Castle and Manor
    Acquired: 1399
    Divested: 1399
    Granted by King from Lancashire lands early 1399
  • Hertfordshire: Great Gaddesden Manor
    Acquired: 1361
    Granted for life by mother
  • Leicestershire: Rockingham Castle
    Acquired: 1391-04-19
  • Monmouthshire: Grosmont, Monmouth, Skenfrith, and Whitecastle Castles and Manors
    Acquired: 1399
    Divested: 1399
    Granted by King from Lancashire lands early 1399
  • Pembrokeshire: Haverfordwest Castle
    Acquired: 1391/2-01-10
  • Rutland: Whissendine Manor
    Acquired: 1360-03
    Divested: 1385
    Granted by parents
  • Wales
    Acquired: 1398/9-02
    Wardship of John of Gaunt
  • Wales
    Acquired: 1398-07
    Wardship of Mortimer (Earl of March) estates in South Wales
  • Somerset: Blagdon and Haslebury Plucknett Manors
    Acquired: 1388-07-18
    Divested: 1398
  • Somerset: Lydford and Staunton Manors
    Acquired: 1388-07-18
    Divested: 1400
  • Somerset: Stone Hundred
    Acquired: 1392
    This hundred and one other
  • Staffordshire
    Acquired: 1380
    Wardship of Rhys ap Gruffudd's estates in Staffordshire
  • Suffolk: Icklingham Manor
    Acquired: 1389
    Divested: 1398
    Also called Bernershall
  • Suffolk: Lowestoft Manor and Lothingland Hundred
    Acquired: 1394
  • Suffolk: Stratford Manor
    Acquired: 1389
  • Surrey
  • Surrey: Reigate Castle & Lordship
    Acquired: 1398/9-01-15
  • Sussex
  • Sussex: Arundel Castle & Honour
    Acquired: 1397-09-28
    Divested: 1399/1400-01-09
  • Sussex: Lewes Castle & Lordship
    Acquired: 1398-09-23
  • Westmorland
    Divested: 1399/1400-01-09
    Lands held at death
  • Wiltshire: Bardford St Martin Manor
    Divested: 1399-08
    Seized from him
  • Devon: Barnstaple, Blackborough, Bovy Tracy, Cockington, Combe Martin, Dartington, Fremington, Holsworthy, North Lew, South Molton Manors and Hundreds; Torrington Manor
    Acquired: 1388-07-16

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Duke of Exeter's Pipers

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Duke of Exeter's Pipers Holand, John de (1350 - 1400) Musicians 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Dartington Hall Devon Private Residence
Dartington Hall Devon Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard II [1377–99]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1895--1905
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • The Dictionary of National Biography. 1882–1901 (66 vols); 1908–9 (28 vols). 2 vols. London: Oxford UP, 1975
  • Emery, Anthony. Dartington Hall. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1970
  • Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, eds. The London Encyclopaedia. London: Macmillan, 1983
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.