Elizabeth de Samlesbury

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Elizabeth’s father died in about 1256 (Lancashire VCH 6:sub Samlesbury).

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: after 1313.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Maddicott. The Complete Peerage (6:528) states that Elizabeth was living in 1311.

Relationships

Father: William de Samlesbury.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:258) and by the Lancashire VCH (4:sub Upholland; 6:sub Samlesbury).

Mother: Avina de Notton.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (5:sub Breightmet; 6:sub Samlesbury).

Spouse: Sir Robert de Holland. Married between 13 April 1259 and 1276.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:528) and by the Lancashire VCH (4:sub Upholland; 5:sub Breightmet).

Children:

Robert de Holland (born probably about 1270 - died 7 October 1328), first Lord Holland, married Maud la Zouche about 1311.

Margaret de Holland (died about 1329) married (1) Sir John de Blackburn of Wiswell; married (2) Robert de Hepwall; married (3) Sir Adam Banastre.

Joan married (1) Sir Hugh de Dutton; married (2) Edmund Talbot of Bashall; married (3) Sir John Ratcliffe of Urdeshall.

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

A History of the County of Lancaster volume 4 (Victoria County Histories, 1911).

A History of the County of Lancaster volume 5 (Victoria County Histories, 1911).

A History of the County of Lancaster volume 6 (Victoria County Histories, 1911).

Maddicott, J.R. "Thomas of Lancaster and Sir Robert Holland: A Study in Noble Patronage" in The English Historical Review Vol. 86, No. 340 (July 1971), pp. 449-472.