Thurston de Holand

  General Notes:

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Holand), Vol. VI, p. 582, mentioned as the father of Sir Robert Holand ¹⁴⁴

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁶⁷
The Holand family seems to have prospered during the life of Thurstan de Holand since members of the Holand family were acquiring estates and holding important offices. His brother Adam founded the family of Holand of Euston by a marriage with a Bussel heiress, and his brother Richard became the progenitor of the Holands of Sutton.

Thurstan is believed to have married, as his first wife, the daughter of Adam de Kellet of Nether Kellet, whose grandson, Orm de Kellet, by a fine levied at York on 18 Dec 1299, conveyed the manor of Nether Kellet to Thomas Banastre of Broughton for £100 sterling. [ Lancashire Final Concords, p. 186.] Orm, the grandson of Adam, died without issue after 1299, and the lordship of the manor and the balliwick of the Wapentake of Lonsdale and of Furness and Cartmel descended to the heirs of Thurstan de Holand by the right of his first wife. [Lancashire Final Concords, p. 186]

Thurstan and his first wife had five sons. The eldest was Sir Robert de Holand followed by William, of Sharples, Richard who held land in Hale (20 Edward I), Roger and Adam. [Plea Rolls, 47 and 53 Hen. III]

His second wife, Juliana, was a daughter of John Gellibrand, and they had four other sons, Thurstan, Adam, Elias and Simon. To Simon, he gave lands in Pemberton, Wigan and Golburne. ["Crosse Charters," p. 5, edited by R. D. Radcliffe]

Thurstan was alive in 1241, lived to a good age, and witnessed a deed as bailiff of Makerfield in 1286. ["Crosse Charters," p. 5. the date of this charter is fixed by the named of two witnesses, Sir Robert de Holand, who was knighted in 1282, and Sir Robert de Lathom, "Sheriff of Lancashire," who held this office in 1286.] Thurstan must have died shortly after this date, and he was certainly dead by 1293. In witnessing a charter to Stanlaw Abbey in 1272, he is described as Sir Thurstan de Holand.
~A History of the Family of Holand of Mobberley and Knutsford. pp. 5-7

• Background Information. ⁷²¹
Sir Thurstan Holand held Upholland, near Wigan in Lancashire, which had been in the family since the reign of King John [Nadducott, EHR, 86:450], which ended in 1216, seceeding his father about 1242/43.

Thurstan's first wife was the daguther of Adam Kellet, who brought Lonsdale, Furness and Cartmel in North Lancashire to her husband. His second wife was Juliana Gellibrand, daughter of John Gellibrand. His third wife was the daughter of Henry de Hale, who was an illegitimate son of Richard de Meath, Lord of Hale.
Children of Thurstan and Lady Kellet:
Sir Robert, m. Elizabeth de Samlesbury
Sir William, whose father gave him his land in Cayley in Haydock
Richard, who may have inherited lands in Hale
Roger
Adam
Margaret

Thurstan's children, possibly by Juliana Gellibrand:
Thurstan, who died without heirs, witnessed a charter in 1286 [EHR, 86:450]
Adam, no heirs, held, along with his brother Thurstan, the remainder of an estate in Pemberton and Wigan, settled on him by his father.
Elias
Simon, had lands in Goldborne settle on him by his father, and inherited the lands in Pemberton and Wigan from his brothers.
~Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, pg. 138-139

Thurston married Daughter of Adam de Kellet, daughter of Adam de Kellet and Unknown, before 1241 over Kellet, Bolton-le-Sands Parish, Lancashire, Lancashire, England.⁷⁶⁷