Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury
Eleanor Holland ( Eleanor Holand ) (* 1386 in Upholland, Lancashire, † after 1413 ) was the Countess of Salisbury. She was the second daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, half-brother of King Richard II. Was the first wife of Sir Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury. One of her brothers was Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent. It is not to be confused with her elder sister Alianore Holland, Countess of March.
Family
Eleanor Holland was born as one of ten children of Thomas Holland and Alice Holland, sister of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel. Her oldest sister was Alianore Holland, the 4th Earl of March Roger Mortimer married. Her eldest brother Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey was in 1400 by a rebellious mob in Cirencester for his role in the Epiphany Rising rebellion that against King Henry IV - was addressed - the throne of King Richard II seized the, beheaded. Thomas heritage as Earl of Kent went to her second eldest brother Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent and myself as co-heiress.
Your paternal grandparents were Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent. Her maternal grandparents were Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster.
Marriage and descendants
On May 23, 1399 she married at the age of about thirteen years, Sir Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury, son of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and Maud Francis. Her husband later became one of the most important commander during the Hundred Years War. Eleanor took until June 14, 1409 the title of Countess of Salisbury shall not start until he was specifically restored by Thomas. The previous deprivation of title and possessions of her father was responsible for his part in the Epiphany Rising rebellion. Eleanor's uncle, John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, who was also part of the conspiracy, though was able to escape the angry mob, but was shortly afterwards captured in Essex and at the behest of his maternal grandmother, Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford, the mother of King Henry IV, beheaded.
Thomas and Eleanor's home was Bisham Manor in Berkshire. Together they had a daughter, Alice Neville, 5th Countess of Salisbury ( * 1407, † 1462 ), the 1420 Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury married, with whom she had ten children together.
Eleanor died on an unknown date after 1413. She was buried at Bisham Abbey.
Your widowed husband Thomas married a second time, this time Alice Chaucer 1424, the granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer. The marriage remained childless.