Elizabeth de Samlesbury

  General Notes:

~~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 32:30, Sir Robert de Holand of Upholland, Lancashire married Elizabeth Samlesbury, daughter of William Samlesbury. ¹⁶⁰

~From the footnotes of The Coucher Book on Chartulary of Whalley-Abbey, Vol. I, pg. 121 ⁸²³

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
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

• Background Information. ⁸²⁷
This successor was William de Samlesbury, Roger's eldest son [Lancs. Assize R. (Rec. Soc. xlvii), 17], who increased his estates by marrying Avina daughter and heir of William de Notton, lord of Breightmet in the parish of Bolton-le-Moors [Towneley MS. HH, no. 2064], by whom he had issue Margery, Cecily and Elizabeth. He died about 1256, his widow obtaining the manor of Breightmet in satisfaction of her dower [Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii, 237; Final Conc. i, 131]. His eldest daughter Margery married first in or before 1257 Richard son and heir-apparent of William de Clifton [Final Conc. i, 130], who died shortly after his marriage, and secondly Robert de Hampton of Allonby, co. Cumb., and died without issue before July 1267 [Chart. R. no. 54, m. 4]; Cecily the second daughter married before 13 April 1259 John Deuyas; and Elizabeth married after that date Robert de Holand son and heir of Thurstan de Holand.

'Townships: Samlesbury', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, pp. 303-313

Elizabeth married Sir Robert de Holand Knight, son of Thurston de Holand and Daughter of Adam de Kellet, in 1275 in Samlesbury, Lancashire, England ^141,160,767.^,827 (Sir Robert de Holand Knight was born in Upholland, Lancaster, England ⁷⁶⁷ and died in 1302-1305 in Upland, Denmark ⁷⁶⁷.)