page_title: Otho Holand
hierarchical_section_title: Otho Holand
caption_attribution_description: English: Coat of Arms of Sir Otho Holland, KG “ Holand... azure, florettee and a lyon rampant gardant argent…by Sir Otes, K.G. (a founder), and Sir Thomas, K.G., at the siege of Calais 1345-8, the former then differenced with a cross patee gules on the lyon… ” FOSTER, Joseph, Some Feudal Coats of Arms from Heraldic Rolls 1298-1418, London: James Parker &amp; Co., 1902. See also: ST. JOHN HOPE, W. H., The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485: A Series of Ninety Full-Sized Coloured Facsimiles with Descriptive Notes and Historical Introductions, Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company LTD, 1901.
context_page_description: Sir Otho Holand was an English soldier and a founder Knight of the Garter. He was alternatively called Otes or Eton Holand or Holland.
  He was born in Brackley, Northamptonshire, a younger son of Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand of Upholland, Lancashire, by his wife Maud la Zouch. One of his brothers was Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent also a founder Knight of the Garter.
  Otho joined his brother Thomas in Edward III's military expedition to Normandy in 1346 and fought at the Battle of Caen. There the Constable of France surrendered himself to his brother who sold him to the King. Back in England the Constable was given to Otho to guard until he could be ransomed but Otho allowed his prisoner too much freedom and was heavily censured as a result.
  In 1348 he was invested, along with his brother Thomas, as a founder knight of the new Order of the Garter and allocated stall 23 at the home of the order in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. In 1355 he again joined his brother Thomas on a campaign in France, but was taken prisoner in Dauphiny and ransomed. He was made Governor of the Channel Islands in 1359.
  He died childless in Normandy in 1359.
context_section_description: Sir Otho Holand (c. 1316–3 September 1359) was an English soldier and a founder Knight of the Garter. He was alternatively called Otes or Eton Holand or Holland.
  He was born in Brackley, Northamptonshire, a younger son of Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand of Upholland, Lancashire, by his wife Maud la Zouch. One of his brothers was Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent also a founder Knight of the Garter.
  Otho joined his brother Thomas in Edward III's military expedition to Normandy in 1346 and fought at the Battle of Caen. There the Constable of France surrendered himself to his brother who sold him to the King. Back in England the Constable  was given to Otho to guard until he could be ransomed but Otho allowed his prisoner too much freedom (by allowing him to cross to France on parole) and was heavily censured as a result.
  In 1348 he was invested, along with his brother Thomas, as a founder knight of the new Order of the Garter and allocated stall 23 at the home of the order in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. In 1355 he again joined his brother Thomas on a campaign in France, but was taken prisoner in Dauphiny and ransomed. He was made Governor of the Channel Islands in 1359.
  He died childless in Normandy in 1359. His estates went to his brothers Robert and Thomas.
caption: Arms of Sir Otho Holland, KG
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