Sir Robert de Holland

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

(supposed) Date of Death: about 1304.

Place of Death: unknown.

The Lancashire VCH (4:sub Upholland fn 16) states that Robert “is supposed to have died about 1304.” The Complete Peerage (5:528 fn c) states that the date of his death is uncertain, but was probably around 1300. Maddicott gives around 1304.

Relationships

Father: Thurstan de Holland.

This relationship is given by Maddicott, by the Complete Peerage (6:528 fn c) and by the Lancashire VCH (4:sub Upholland).

(supposed) Mother: a daughter of Adam de Kellet.

The Lancashire VCH (4:sub Upholland) states that Thurstan “is said to have married a daughter of Adam de Kellet; eventually the lordship of Nether Kellet descended to his heirs by this wife.” Towneley gives this inquisition.

Spouse: Elizabeth de Samlesbury. Married between 13 April 1259 and 1276.

This relationship is given by Maddicott, 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).

Ffarington, William; Henry Stanley Derby; F. R. (Francis Robert) Raines; and Edward Stanley Derby. The Derby household books: comprising an account of the household regulations and expenses of Edward and Henry, third and fourth earls of Derby : together with a diary containing the names of the guests who visited the latter earl at his houses in Lancashire. (Manchester: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1853). [Ffarington gives Robert another wife, Cecily, daughter of Alan de Columbers, lord of Hale. Other sources make Cecily the wife of Robert’s grandfather.]

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).

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.

Towneley, Christopher; Roger Dodsworth; and William Langton. Abstracts of inquisitions post mortem, made by Christopher Towneley and Roger Dodsworth, extracted from manuscripts at Towneley. (Manchester: Chetham Society, 1875-1876)