Sir Robert de Holand Knight

  General Notes:

Turton's Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 96.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁴⁵
Sir Robert Holand, was the foremost lieutenant and favorite of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. When the Earl of Lancaster became chief minister of the realm in 1314, Sir Robert was summoned to Parliament as Lord Holand. Robert Holand took part in the rebellion of the Earl, and forfeited all his lands. This forfeiture was reversed by Edward III in 1328, but in the following October, Sir Robert was murdered by followers of Henry of Lancaster.

Sir Robert's eldest son, another Sir Robert, distinguished himself in the French war. Other sons were William, father of Thrust an Holand of Denton, who married Margaret de Shoreworth. His youngest son was Sir Thomas Holand, a soldier of great repute, who married Joan, the daughter of Edmund, Earl of Kent, and was summoned to Parliament as Lord Holand in 1353.
~The Book of the Radclyffes, page 136

• Background Information. ⁷⁶⁷
Sir Robert married Elizabeth, the co-heir and daughter of Sir William de Samlesbury, lord of Samlesbury, and the moiety of the manor of Harwood, near Bolton. Sir Robert was seised of a sixth part of Harwood in right of his wife in 1292 and 1302. He enjoyed the lordship of the manor of Hale and Tórres, and the lands in may other townships. He was knighted in 1282. He may have died sometime between 1302 and 1305. He had at least three sons, Robert, his eldest and heir, Adam and William. His daughter was Avena, married Adam Austyn of Ireland, and the first of the house of Hale.
~A History of the Family of Holand of Mobberley and Knutsford, pp. 7-8

• Children. ⁷²¹
Children of Sir Robert and Lady Elizabeth:
• Sir Robert de Holand, b. c. 1283, d. 7 Oct 1328; m. Maud la Zouche, who d. 31 May 1349.
• William de Holand, d. before 1321; no issue; played a brutal part in the suppression of Adam Banastre's uprising in 1315
• Alan de Holand, ancestor of the Holands of Conway.
• Joan de Holand, m. 1st Sir Edward Talbot of Bashall; m. 2nd, Sir Hugh de Dutton, and m. 3rd, Sir John de Radclyff.
• Margery de Holand, m. John le Warren
• Ameria, m. Adam Ireland, son of Sir John Ireland. Other sources place her as the daughter of Sir Robert Holand and Margaret le Zouche, and she may be the wife of Sir John Tempest (see next generation of Sir. John Holand).~The Medieval Ancestors of Robert Abell, pg. 139

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁴
Sir Robert was the son of Thurstan, son of Robert de Holand. [Plac. de quo Warranto, p. 229; V.C.H. Lancs, vol. iv. p. 92] He married before 1276, because of at that time he and his wife were involved in a suit about Samlesbury [Assize Roll, 405, m.2]. The date of his death is uncertain, probably about 1300. His widow was living in 1311 [Farrer, Lanc Inq. and Extents, vol. ii. p. 12].

Sir Robert de Holand was married to Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William de Samlesbury.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Holand), Vol. VI, p. 582

Robert married Elizabeth de Samlesbury, daughter of Sir William de Samlesbury Knight and Avina de Notton, in 1275 in Samlesbury, Lancashire, England ¹⁴⁴.^,767 (Elizabeth de Samlesbury was born in 1256 in Samlesbury, Lancashire, England.)