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For this, or at any rate for some thwarting of his will, he seems never to have forgiven her. Marguerite left two children Duke Jean the Fourth, born 1340, died November 1, 1399: he married thrice, Mary of England, Joan de Holand, and Juana of Navarre but left no issue by any but the last, and by her a family of nine children, the eldest being only twelve years old when he died.
The young King, without consulting his powerful uncle, declared his second cousin, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, heir presumptive of England, and in obedience to a previous suggestion of the Princess broke off March's engagement with a lady of the Arundel family, and married him to Richard's own niece, the Lady Alianora de Holand.
In the young man's hand was a black velvet cap, covered by a spreading plume of apple-green feathers. Round the waist, outside the gown, was a tight black velvet band, to which was fastened the scabbard of a golden-hilted sword. This extremely smart young gentleman was Sir Edmund de Holand, Earl of Kent, brother and heir of the Duke of Surrey, and brother also of Constance's step-mother.
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