• title Earl of Kent has been created eight times in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. In fiction, the Earl of Kent is...
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    King of Kent in 825. By 860, Kent lost its status as a kingdom, becoming absorbed into Wessex. The first title of Kent was that of the Earl of Kent in the...
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    Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (5 August 1301 – 19 March 1330), whose seat was Arundel Castle in Sussex, was the sixth son of King Edward I of England...
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  • Earl (/ɜːrl, ɜːrəl/) is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess...
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    Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, by his wife, Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell. Edmund was the sixth son of King Edward I of England...
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    Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent KG (1350 – 25 April 1397) was an English nobleman and a councillor of his half-brother, King Richard II of England. Thomas...
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  • Godwin of Wessex (Old English: Godwine; died 15 April 1053) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman who became one of the most powerful earls in England under the...
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    uxoris 1st Earl of Kent, KG (c. 1314 – 26 December 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. By the time of the Crécy...
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    1243) who served as Chief Justiciar and Regent of England, Justiciar of Ireland, and was created Earl of Kent. His descendants changed their name to 'Burgh'...
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    Earl Grosvenor under George III. The title Marquess of Westminster was bestowed upon Robert Grosvenor, the 2nd Earl Grosvenor, at the coronation of William...
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    William Neville, Earl of Kent KG (c. 1405 – 9 January 1463) and jure uxoris 6th Baron Fauconberg, was an English nobleman and soldier. He fought during...
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    Grey family (redirect from House of Grey)
    2nd Earl of Kent Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent Henry Grey Reginald Grey, 5th Earl of Kent Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent Charles...
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    first became Earl of Huntingdon and then Duke of Exeter. Thomas inherited his father's title of Earl of Kent, becoming the 2nd Earl of Kent, and like his...
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    Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, KB (26 October 1416 – 22 May 1490), English administrator, nobleman and magnate, was the son of Sir John Grey, KG and Constance...
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    parts of his very grand garden have survived relatively untouched. He was a son of Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent, and Mary Grey, 1st Baroness Lucas of Crudwell...
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    Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, 1300–1338 Edward of Norfolk, 1313-1334 Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, 1301–1330 Edmund, 2nd Earl of Kent, 1326-1331...
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  • sole heiress of her father. On 2 March 1662/1663, Mary Lucas married Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent. By marriage, she became Countess of Kent. Mary and...
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    Burgh, Earl of Kent (English: /dəˈbɜːr/ də-BUR, French: [dəbuʁ]; c. 1170 – before 5 May 1243) was an English nobleman who served as Chief Justiciar of England...
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  • third son of Thomas Holland by his wife Joan of Kent, "The Fair Maid of Kent". Joan was daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, a son of King Edward...
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  • Earl of St Andrews (born 26 June 1962) is an English philanthropist, former diplomat and relative of the British royal family. He was a member of the...
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    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...
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  • Edmund, 2nd Earl of Kent (c. 1326 – 5 October 1331) was a member of the English royal family. He inherited the Earldom of Kent in 1331, a year after his...
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    from Earl of Huntingdon to Duke of Exeter Thomas Holland, the King's nephew, promoted from Earl of Kent to Duke of Surrey Edward of Norwich, Earl of Rutland...
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  • was the Earl of Kent (1331–52) and 4th Baron Wake of Liddell (1349–52). His promising career was cut short by an untimely death at the age of twenty-two...
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    eventual co-heiress of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, and daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent. By Eleanor he had a daughter, his only legitimate...
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  • Earl of Kent, KB, JP, PC (1454 – 25 December 1505) was the son of Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent and Lady Katherine Percy. He was the Second Earl of Kent...
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    restored as the fifth Earl of Kent following her mother's intervention. Widowed at age nineteen, Susan, Dowager Countess of Kent, married Sir John Wingfield...
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    Earl of Wilton, of Wilton Castle in the County of Herefordshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1801 for Thomas Egerton...
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  • of Liddell and Countess of Kent (c. 1297 – 19 September 1349), was the wife of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, the youngest surviving son of Edward...
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  • second wife Joan Beaufort, a legitimized daughter of John of Gaunt. She married Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, and had seven children: Mary Grey (1440–1474);...
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