Holien meaning | Last name Holien origin

Holien is a variation of Holland. It has been stated on the authority of George of Croyland, who wrote an account of the family in 1550, that the noble and knightly race of this name could trace themselves backwards thirteen generations beyond the Norman Conquest! For 13, we should probably read 3; and there is a more credible genealogy which makes the fundator gentis one Otho, whose son Stephen flourished uncler Edward the Confessor, as lord of Stevington, county of Lincoln, and his son, Ralph de Holand, it is said, continued to hold his lands by the permission of William the Conqueror. These lands were in the district of Lincolnshire still known as Holland, but there is also a Holland in Lancashire which belonged to the family. They were ennobled by Edward I., and their blood mingled with that of royalty itself by the marriage of Thomas de Holland with the lovely Joane Plantagenet, the Fair Maid of Kent, and grand-daughter of King Edward III.

The is the form of the Holland. Hollow or flat land, or woody or holly land.

The form of Holland. One who came from the Netherlands; dweller on the low land; one who came from Holland, i.e., land on, or by, a projecting ridge of land,the name of several places in England.

Variant of Hollander. The Hollander. The Dutch name Holland first appears in the year 1054; and in 1083, Count Dirk V. is styled "Comes Hollandensium." The latest authorities consider that the names were given to Holland and Zealand by the Danes, after the places so called in their own fatherland.

Surname Holien is a variant of Hollond. A variation of Holland.