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Haydock Manor / Henry, Duke of Exeter

The Haydocks were in possession of the manor by 1168, but had been divided between two branches of the family by 1212.

One branch sold their interest in the middle of the 13th century to the Hollands, who had also acquired the mesne lordship over the whole of Haydock.

This manor descended to the male heirs of Sir Robert Holland, and passed to the Crown on the forfeiture of Henry, Duke of Exeter, in 1461.

The other branch of the Haydock family retained their moiety until the 15th century, when it passed by marriage to the Leighs.

The manor remained a part of the Legh inheritance thereafter, with Lord Newton being lord of the manor in 1925.

Sources
A History of the County of Lancaster, Volume 4 (1911), pp.137-140.

British History Online - A History of the County of Lancashire: Vol 4

Holland married before 1309/10 (being contracted to marry in or before 1305/6) Maud la Zouche, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby, by his wife, Eleanor de Segrave. Holland and Maud had nine children:
Robert de Holand (born c. 1311–12 [aged 16 in 1328, aged 30 and more in 1349] – died 16 March 1372/3), 2nd Baron Holand. He married before 25 June 1343 (date of fine) Margaret Hetton, who married Sir William Molineux of Sefton secondly.[8]
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, KG (died 26 or 28 December 1360), of Broughton, Buckinghamshire, Hawes (in Brackley), Brackley and King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Horden, Durham, etc., created Earl of Kent in 1360. He married Joan Plantagenet, the "Fair Maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, a son of King Edward I by his second wife Margaret of France, daughter of Philip III of France.
Sir Otho Holand, KG (died 3 September 1359), of Ashford, Chesterfield, and Dalbury, Derbyshire, Yoxall, Staffordshire, Talworth (in Long Ditton), Surrey, etc., Governor of the Channel Islands, 1359. He married Joan _____.
Alan de Holand, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire, living 13 October 1331 (date of fine). He was killed sometime before 30 October 1339 by William Bate, of Dunham-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Isabel de Holand. Mistress of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
Margaret de Holand (died 20 or 22 August 1349). She married John la Warre (see chart Margaret d 1349)
Maud de Holand (living 1342). She married (1st) John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray; (2nd) Thomas de Swinnerton, 3rd Lord Swinnerton.
Elizabeth de Holand (died 13 July 1387). She married Henry Fitz Roger, of Chewton, Somerset, descendant of Herbert of Winchester.[9][better source needed]
Eleanor de Holand (died before 21 Nov. 1341). She married John Darcy, 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith

Sources:
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. Vol. VII. London: HMSO. 1909.
Holland, Edgar (1902). A History of the Family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford. Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press.
Moor, Charles (1929). The Knights of Edward I. London: Harleian Society.
Close Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1224–1468.
Patent Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1232–1509.
Parliamentary Writs Alphabetical Digest. Vol. II. London: Public Record Office. 1834.

Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, 3rd Earl of Huntington (27 June 1430 – September 1475) was a Lancastrian leader during the English Wars of the Roses. He was the only son of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, and his first wife, Anne Stafford. His maternal grandparents were Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, and Anne of Gloucester.

He inherited the Dukedom of Exeter and Earl of Huntington when his father died in 1447.

In 1447 he married Anne, the eight-year-old daughter of Richard of York. However, in the Wars of the Roses, he remained loyal to Henry VI against the Yorkists.

He was imprisoned at Wallingford Castle when York briefly seized power after the First Battle of St Albans in 1455.

In 1458 he participated in The Love Day, an attempt at reconciliation between the rival factions.

He was a commander at the Lancastrian victories at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460 and the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461, and in the decisive defeat at Towton in 1461.

He fled to Scotland after the battle, and then joined Queen Margaret in her exile in France.

He was attainted in 1461, and his estates were given to his wife, who separated from him in 1464.

During the brief period of Henry VI's restoration he was able to regain many of his estates and posts.

He "volunteered" to serve on Edward IV's 1475 expedition to France.

On the return voyage he fell overboard and drowned, his body being found in the sea between Dover and Calais, Fabyan saying "but how he drowned, the certainty is not known".

However, Giovanni Panicharolla, the Milanese envoy to the Burgundian court, was told by Duke Charles that the King of England had given specific orders for the sailors to throw his former brother-in-law overboard.

On 30 January 1446, in the chapel of the Bishop of Ely, Hatfield, Herefordshire, he married Anne of York, the eldest child of Richard, Duke of York, and Cecily Neville. She was an older sister of Edward IV and Richard III.

He had one legitimate child:
Anne Holland (1461) – between 26 August 1467 and 6 June 1474), who married Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset.

Since Henry had no legitimate male issue the disposition of his estates became a complex matter for his widow, the dowager Duchess of Exeter.

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Hicks, Michael (2004). "Holland, Henry, second duke of Exeter (1430–1475), magnate". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online) (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50223. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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