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Title of nobility

The title Duke of Exeter was created several times in England in the later Middle Ages. Exeter is the main town of Devon. It was first created for John Holland, the half brother of King Richard II in 1397. That title was rescinded upon Henry IV's accession to the throne two years later. The title was then granted to the former's half brother, Thomas Beaufort, 1st Earl of Dorset by his nephew Henry V. Following Beaufort's death without heirs in 1426, the title was restored to the Holland family, which held it until the 3rd Duke was attainted in 1461 as a Lancastrian, dying in 1475.

John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (1352–1400), half brother of Richard II, was executed for treason against his half brother's cousin and rival Henry IV Bolingbroke, at which point his honours were deprived.

Arms: The arms of England (gules, three lions passant or), within a border azure, charged with fleur de lis of the second. Crest: The royal lion on a chapeau, gorged with a collar azure, charged with fleurs de lis, and ducally crowned.

Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (c. 1377–1426), third legitimated son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (himself the third son of Edward III), died without issue, thus the dukedom was extinct.

Arms: The arms of England (quarterly: first and fourth, azure, three fleurs de lis; second and third, gules, three lions passant or), within a border gobony azure and ermine. Crest: A portcullis or, nailed azure, chains of the first.

As the first creation above.