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.

[2] Over the next decade he fought in various campaigns, including the Battle of Nájera, under the command of his stepfather Edward, the Black Prince.

[2] Richard II became king in 1377, and soon Holland acquired great influence over his younger half-brother, which he used for his own enrichment.

The children were as follows: By his daughters' marriages, he became the ancestor of many of the prominent figures in the Wars of the Roses, including Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (father of Kings Edward IV and Richard III), Henry Tudor (later King Henry VII), and Warwick the Kingmaker, father of queen consort Anne Neville.

He was also an ancestor of queen consort Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII.