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Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holland
(1283 - 7 Oct 1328)
Sir Robert de Holand, 1st Lord (Baron) Holand, so created by writ of summons 29 July 1314 (b. c 1270; in retinue of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster (grandson of Henry III), who substantially advanced his career and with whom he sided (though not apparently without tergiversation) in the latter's disputes with Edward II, notably at the final battle between Lancaster and the royal forces at Boroughbridge March 1321/2; after Boroughbridge his lands were confiscated but were restored him on Edward III's coming to the throne; knight 1307; Justice of Chester intermittenly 1307-20, Governor of Beeston Castle, Cheshire 1312; served in Scottish campaigns 1314 and 1316; commissioner of Array of Lancaster 1316; among his many grants of land was the Manor of Thorpe Waterville, Northants, which he acquired 1319; he also held land in Pendleton, Lancs, from the Priory of St Thomas Stafford; decapitated 7 Oct 1328 by followers of his old leader Lancaster, who not unnaturally resented his less than whole-hearted support, after being taken in Boreham Wood, Herts), son of Sir Robert de Holand, of Upholland, Lancs (son of Thurstan, son of Robert de Holand), by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William Samlesbury.
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Sir Robert de Holand of Upholand, co. Lancaster, b. probably c 1270, executed in Boreham Wood 7 Oct 1328, Lord Holand, MP 1314-1321, son of Sir Robert de Holand and Elizabeth de Samlesbury.
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BARONY OF HOLAND (I)
SIR ROBERT DE HOLAND, son of Sir Robert De HOLAND, of Upholland, co. Lancs (c), by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William DE SAMLESBURY, was born probably about 1270. In 1292 his father settled upon him a tenement in Pemberton and Orrell. He became a favourite official of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and thus grew in importance and wealth. He was a Commissioner in 1303; in 1304 had charters for free warren in his demesne lands of Upholland, Hale, Orrell and Markland in Pemberton, and for a market at Hale; in 1307 a charter for free warren in Nether Kellet, and in 1315 one for lands in Dalbury. He was a Knight in 1307, and was present at the Dunstable Tournament of 1308/9; had licence to crenellate his manor house of Upholland in 1308, and that at Bagworth, co. Leicester, in 1318; and in 1308 was employed by the Earl in a settlement of his manor of Melbourn, co. Derby. He was justice of Chester several times between 1307 and 1320, and in 1312 was Governor of Beeston Castle, co. Chester. In 1310 he founded a college of priests in the Chapel of St. Thomas at Upholland, but eight years later altered it to a Priory of Benedictine monks. He acquired various other manors and lands-e.g., West Derby in 1316, and Mottram in Longdendale (by exchange) in 1318 ; and in 1321 procured from the Earl a curious variation in the tenure of his hereditary manors, by which in future he and his successors were, without relaxing the ancient services, to hold Upholland and the rest by distributing for the Earl's soul each 29 December (St. Thomas the Martyr) certain charities. In September 1313 he had a safe conduct for attending Parliament at Westminster. He was summoned for military service against the Scots at Newcastle August 1314 and in 1316, in which latter year he was a Commissioner of Array in Lancashire, and was called on to attend musters 1317-19. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July (1314) to 15 May 1321, by writs directed Roberto de Holand, whereby he is held to have become LORD HOLAND. He took sides with his patron the Earl of Lancaster in his various contentions with the King, being pardoned in 1313 for complicity in the death of Piers de Gavaston; in 1315 he assisted in suppressing the rising of Adam Banastre in Lancashire and in 1318 was again pardoned for adherence to the Earl. In the Earl's final rising, in February and March 1321/2, he is said to have played a cowardly or treacherous part. On the Earl's flight northward, before the battle of Boroughbridge, he surrendered to the King at Derby, and was sent to Dover Castle. He appears, however, to have fought at Boroughbridge, surrendering after the battle and was certainly treated as a rebel, all his lands being taken into the King's hand. He was imprisoned in various places. At the accession of Edward III he petitioned for the restitution of his lands, and this was granted to him on 23 December 1327. On 7 October 1328 he was captured in Boreham Wood, Elstree, Herts, by some adherents of his patron, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, who, for his treachery, cut off his head [g].
He married, about 1311, certainly before August 1314, Maud, daughter and coheir of Alan (LA ZOUCHE), LORD ZOUCHE, with whom he acquired extensive estates, including the manor of Brackley, Northants. He died as aforesaid, 7 October 1328, and is said to have been buried in the Grey Friars' Church at Preston, Lancs, to which he had been a benefactor. At the Queen's request provision was made for the wife and children while his lands were in the King's hand. His widow, who was going on a pilgrimage to Santiago in 1336, died 31 May 1349, and was buried at Brackley.
[Complete Peerage VI:528-31, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(c) This Sir Robert was son of Thurston, son of Robert de Holand. He m. before 1276, when he and his wife were involved in a suit about Salmesbury. The date of his death is uncertain, probably about 1300. His widow was living 1311.
[g] They sent his head to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, at Waltham Cross by Sir Thomas Wytherand and others.
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That this family was of great antiquity in the county of Lancaster is evident from the register of Cokersand Abbey, to which religious house some of its members were benefactors in King John's time. The first person of the name of any note was Robert de Holand, who was in the wars of Scotland, 31st Edward I [1303] and who owed his advancement to his becoming secretary to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, for previously he had been but a "poor knight." In the 1st Edward II [1307], he obtained large territorial grants from the crown, viz., the manors of Melburne, Newton, Osmundeston, Swarkeston, Chelardeston, Normanton, and Wybeleston, in the county of Derby, and the same year had a military summons to march against the Scots. In the 8th Edward II [1315], he was first summoned to parliament as a baron; and in the 10th and 12th, he was again in the wars of Scotland, in which latter year he had license to make a castle of his manor house of Bagworth, co. Leicester. Upon the insurrection of his old master, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (15th Edward II), his lordship promised that nobleman, to whom he owed his first rise in the world, all the aid in his power, but failing to fulfill his engagement, Lancaster was forced to fly northwards and was finally taken prisoner at Boroughbridge, when Lord Holand rendered himself to the king at Derby and was sent prisoner to Dover Castle. For this duplicity he became so odious to the people that, being afterwards made prisoner a second time, in a wood near Henley Park, toward Windsor, he was beheaded on the nones of October, anno 1328, and his head sent to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, then at Waltham Cross, co. Essex, by Sir Thomas Wyther and some other private friends.
His lordship m. Maud, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Alan le Zouch, of Ashby, and had issue, Robert, Thomas, Alan, Otho, Jane, and Mary. Robert, Lord Holand, was s. by his eldest son, Sir Robert Holand, 2nd baron.
[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 278-9, Holand, Barons Holand]
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According to Wikipedia:
Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 - 1328) was an English nobleman, born in Lancashire.
Early life
Holland was a son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire and Elizabeth, daughter of William de Samlesbury.
Holland was a member of the noble Holland family and a favourite official of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and was knighted by 1305. He was appointed on 20 December 1307 in a matter concerning the Knight Templars, shortly before Edward II ordered their arrest and trials in January 1308. In October 1313 Holland was pardoned for his role in the death of Piers Gaveston.[1][non-primary source needed] From 1314 to 1321 he was called to Parliament as a baron and was appointed as secretary to the Earl of Lancaster.[2]
Banastre Rebellion (1315)
Holland's favoured treatment by the powerful earl caused his rival knights in the area, led by Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea, and William de Bradshagh (Bradshaw), to start a campaign of violence towards him and the earl's other supporters known as the Banastre Rebellion. The rebels protested against the earl's actions and authority by attacking the homes of his supporters and several castles, including Liverpool Castle. Holland later assisted in the hunt for fugitives after the rebels had been routed in Preston by a force under the command of the Sheriff of Lancashire.
Battle of Boroughbridge (1322) and Invasion of England (1326)
On 4 March 1322 Holland was ordered to join the king with horses and men to defend against Lancaster's rebellion. Twelve days later Holland betrayed the king and fought alongside Lancaster at the Battle of Boroughbridge.[1][non-primary source needed]
After their defeat, Holland surrendered and was imprisoned and had his lands confiscated. He was released from prison but was accused of having joined with other rebels in raids on the estates of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester over the next few years.[1][non-primary source needed] Holland was again imprisoned in Warwick Castle[3] before being moved in 1326 to Northampton Castle from which he escaped.[4][non-primary source needed]
Demise
Following Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer's overthrow of Edward II, Holland was pardoned for his escape from Northampton at the request of Henry de Beaumont;[4][non-primary source needed] his lands were restored to him on 24 December 1327.[5][non-primary source needed]
Holland still had enemies from the Banastre Rebellion though and in June 1328 they attempted to outlaw Holland for the deaths of Banastre and his followers, thirteen years after their deaths. Holland appealed against this but was killed[5][non-primary source needed] in October in a wood near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Thomas Wither is named by some as the murderer and is claimed to have been a supporter of the new Earl of Lancaster, Henry but in light of Holland's outlawry in June may have been a supporter of Banastre as well. Holland was beheaded, his head sent to the Earl of Lancaster at Waltham Cross and his body to Preston, Lancashire where it was buried in the church of Grey Friars.[2] The inaccuracies of some accounts of Holland suggest his rivals may have smeared him deliberately.
An Inquisition Post Mortem held in October 1328 found he held lands in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and London.[6][non-primary source needed]
Marriage and issue
Melbourne Castle was started by de Holland in Melbourne, Derbyshire.[7]
Holland married before 1309/10 (being contracted to marry in or before 1305/6) Maud la Zouche, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby, by his wife, Eleanor de Segrave. Holland and Maud had nine children:
Robert de Holand (born c.1311-12 [aged 16 in 1328, aged 30 and more in 1349] - died 16 March 1372/3), 2nd Baron Holand. He married before 25 June 1343 (date of fine) Elizabeth _____.
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, KG (died 26 or 28 December 1360), of Broughton, Buckinghamshire, Hawes (in Brackley), Brackley and King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Horden, Durham, etc., created Earl of Kent in 1360. He married Joan Plantagenet, the "Fair Maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, a son of King Edward I by his second wife Margaret of France, daughter of Philip III of France.
Sir Otho Holand, KG (died 3 September 1359), of Ashford, Chesterfield, and Dalbury, Derbyshire, Yoxall, Staffordshire, Talworth (in Long Ditton), Surrey, etc., Governor of the Channel Islands, 1359. He married Joan _____.
Alan de Holand, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire, living 13 October 1331 (date of fine). He was killed sometime before 30 October 1339 by William Bate, of Dunham-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Isabel de Holand. Mistress of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
Margaret de Holand (died 20 or 22 August 1349). She married Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.
Maud de Holand (living 1342). She married (1st) John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray; (2nd) Thomas de Swinnerton, 3rd Lord Swinnerton.
Elizabeth de Holand (died 13 July 1387). She married Henry Fitz Roger, of Chewton, Somerset, descendant of Herbert of Winchester.[8]
Eleanor de Holand (died before 21 Nov. 1341). She married John Darcy, 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith.
References
Parl Writs II Digest 1834.
Holland 1902
Moor 1929
Patent Rolls 1232-1509.
Close Rolls 1224-1468.
Cal Inq PMs VII.
Melbourne Castle, Picture the Past, accessed August 2009
Burke, J. (1838) A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Oxford University pg 729(via Google)
Sources
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. VII. London: HMSO. 1909.
Holland, Edgar (1902). A History of the Family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford. Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press.
Moor, Charles (1929). The Knights of Edward I. London: Harleian Society.
Close Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1224-1468.
Patent Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1232-1509.
Parliamentary Writs Alphabetical Digest. II. London: Public Record Office. 1834.
According to Wikipedia:
Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 - 1328) was an English nobleman, born in Lancashire.
Early life
Holland was a son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire and Elizabeth, daughter of William de Samlesbury.
Holland was a member of the noble Holland family and a favourite official of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and was knighted by 1305. He was appointed on 20 December 1307 in a matter concerning the Knight Templars, shortly before Edward II ordered their arrest and trials in January 1308. In October 1313 Holland was pardoned for his role in the death of Piers Gaveston.[1][non-primary source needed] From 1314 to 1321 he was called to Parliament as a baron and was appointed as secretary to the Earl of Lancaster.[2]
Banastre Rebellion (1315)
Holland's favoured treatment by the powerful earl caused his rival knights in the area, led by Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea, and William de Bradshagh (Bradshaw), to start a campaign of violence towards him and the earl's other supporters known as the Banastre Rebellion. The rebels protested against the earl's actions and authority by attacking the homes of his supporters and several castles, including Liverpool Castle. Holland later assisted in the hunt for fugitives after the rebels had been routed in Preston by a force under the command of the Sheriff of Lancashire.
Battle of Boroughbridge (1322) and Invasion of England (1326)
On 4 March 1322 Holland was ordered to join the king with horses and men to defend against Lancaster's rebellion. Twelve days later Holland betrayed the king and fought alongside Lancaster at the Battle of Boroughbridge.[1][non-primary source needed]
After their defeat, Holland surrendered and was imprisoned and had his lands confiscated. He was released from prison but was accused of having joined with other rebels in raids on the estates of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester over the next few years.[1][non-primary source needed] Holland was again imprisoned in Warwick Castle[3] before being moved in 1326 to Northampton Castle from which he escaped.[4][non-primary source needed]
Demise
Following Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer's overthrow of Edward II, Holland was pardoned for his escape from Northampton at the request of Henry de Beaumont;[4][non-primary source needed] his lands were restored to him on 24 December 1327.[5][non-primary source needed]
Holland still had enemies from the Banastre Rebellion though and in June 1328 they attempted to outlaw Holland for the deaths of Banastre and his followers, thirteen years after their deaths. Holland appealed against this but was killed[5][non-primary source needed] in October in a wood near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Thomas Wither is named by some as the murderer and is claimed to have been a supporter of the new Earl of Lancaster, Henry but in light of Holland's outlawry in June may have been a supporter of Banastre as well. Holland was beheaded, his head sent to the Earl of Lancaster at Waltham Cross and his body to Preston, Lancashire where it was buried in the church of Grey Friars.[2] The inaccuracies of some accounts of Holland suggest his rivals may have smeared him deliberately.
An Inquisition Post Mortem held in October 1328 found he held lands in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and London.[6][non-primary source needed]
Marriage and issue
Melbourne Castle was started by de Holland in Melbourne, Derbyshire.[7]
Holland married before 1309/10 (being contracted to marry in or before 1305/6) Maud la Zouche, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby, by his wife, Eleanor de Segrave. Holland and Maud had nine children:
Robert de Holand (born c.1311-12 [aged 16 in 1328, aged 30 and more in 1349] - died 16 March 1372/3), 2nd Baron Holand. He married before 25 June 1343 (date of fine) Elizabeth _____.
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, KG (died 26 or 28 December 1360), of Broughton, Buckinghamshire, Hawes (in Brackley), Brackley and King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Horden, Durham, etc., created Earl of Kent in 1360. He married Joan Plantagenet, the "Fair Maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, a son of King Edward I by his second wife Margaret of France, daughter of Philip III of France.
Sir Otho Holand, KG (died 3 September 1359), of Ashford, Chesterfield, and Dalbury, Derbyshire, Yoxall, Staffordshire, Talworth (in Long Ditton), Surrey, etc., Governor of the Channel Islands, 1359. He married Joan _____.
Alan de Holand, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire, living 13 October 1331 (date of fine). He was killed sometime before 30 October 1339 by William Bate, of Dunham-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Isabel de Holand. Mistress of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
Margaret de Holand (died 20 or 22 August 1349). She married Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.
Maud de Holand (living 1342). She married (1st) John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray; (2nd) Thomas de Swinnerton, 3rd Lord Swinnerton.
Elizabeth de Holand (died 13 July 1387). She married Henry Fitz Roger, of Chewton, Somerset, descendant of Herbert of Winchester.[8]
Eleanor de Holand (died before 21 Nov. 1341). She married John Darcy, 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith.
References
Parl Writs II Digest 1834.
Holland 1902
Moor 1929
Patent Rolls 1232-1509.
Close Rolls 1224-1468.
Cal Inq PMs VII.
Melbourne Castle, Picture the Past, accessed August 2009
Burke, J. (1838) A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Oxford University pg 729(via Google)
Sources
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. VII. London: HMSO. 1909.
Holland, Edgar (1902). A History of the Family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford. Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press.
Moor, Charles (1929). The Knights of Edward I. London: Harleian Society.
Close Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1224-1468.
Patent Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1232-1509.
Parliamentary Writs Alphabetical Digest. II. London: Public Record Office. 1834.
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Sir Robert de Holand, 1st Lord (Baron) Holand, so created by writ of summons 29 July 1314 (b. c 1270; in retinue of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster (grandson of Henry III), who substantially advanced his career and with whom he sided (though not apparently without tergiversation) in the latter's disputes with Edward II, notably at the final battle between Lancaster and the royal forces at Boroughbridge March 1321/2; after Boroughbridge his lands were confiscated but were restored him on Edward III's coming to the throne; knight 1307; Justice of Chester intermittenly 1307-20, Governor of Beeston Castle, Cheshire 1312; served in Scottish campaigns 1314 and 1316; commissioner of Array of Lancaster 1316; among his many grants of land was the Manor of Thorpe Waterville, Northants, which he acquired 1319; he also held land in Pendleton, Lancs, from the Priory of St Thomas Stafford; decapitated 7 Oct 1328 by followers of his old leader Lancaster, who not unnaturally resented his less than whole-hearted support, after being taken in Boreham Wood, Herts), son of Sir Robert de Holand, of Upholland, Lancs (son of Thurstan, son of Robert de Holand), by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William Samlesbury.
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Sir Robert de Holand of Upholand, co. Lancaster, b. probably c 1270, executed in Boreham Wood 7 Oct 1328, Lord Holand, MP 1314-1321, son of Sir Robert de Holand and Elizabeth de Samlesbury.
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BARONY OF HOLAND (I)
SIR ROBERT DE HOLAND, son of Sir Robert De HOLAND, of Upholland, co. Lancs (c), by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William DE SAMLESBURY, was born probably about 1270. In 1292 his father settled upon him a tenement in Pemberton and Orrell. He became a favourite official of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and thus grew in importance and wealth. He was a Commissioner in 1303; in 1304 had charters for free warren in his demesne lands of Upholland, Hale, Orrell and Markland in Pemberton, and for a market at Hale; in 1307 a charter for free warren in Nether Kellet, and in 1315 one for lands in Dalbury. He was a Knight in 1307, and was present at the Dunstable Tournament of 1308/9; had licence to crenellate his manor house of Upholland in 1308, and that at Bagworth, co. Leicester, in 1318; and in 1308 was employed by the Earl in a settlement of his manor of Melbourn, co. Derby. He was justice of Chester several times between 1307 and 1320, and in 1312 was Governor of Beeston Castle, co. Chester. In 1310 he founded a college of priests in the Chapel of St. Thomas at Upholland, but eight years later altered it to a Priory of Benedictine monks. He acquired various other manors and lands-e.g., West Derby in 1316, and Mottram in Longdendale (by exchange) in 1318 ; and in 1321 procured from the Earl a curious variation in the tenure of his hereditary manors, by which in future he and his successors were, without relaxing the ancient services, to hold Upholland and the rest by distributing for the Earl's soul each 29 December (St. Thomas the Martyr) certain charities. In September 1313 he had a safe conduct for attending Parliament at Westminster. He was summoned for military service against the Scots at Newcastle August 1314 and in 1316, in which latter year he was a Commissioner of Array in Lancashire, and was called on to attend musters 1317-19. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July (1314) to 15 May 1321, by writs directed Roberto de Holand, whereby he is held to have become LORD HOLAND. He took sides with his patron the Earl of Lancaster in his various contentions with the King, being pardoned in 1313 for complicity in the death of Piers de Gavaston; in 1315 he assisted in suppressing the rising of Adam Banastre in Lancashire and in 1318 was again pardoned for adherence to the Earl. In the Earl's final rising, in February and March 1321/2, he is said to have played a cowardly or treacherous part. On the Earl's flight northward, before the battle of Boroughbridge, he surrendered to the King at Derby, and was sent to Dover Castle. He appears, however, to have fought at Boroughbridge, surrendering after the battle and was certainly treated as a rebel, all his lands being taken into the King's hand. He was imprisoned in various places. At the accession of Edward III he petitioned for the restitution of his lands, and this was granted to him on 23 December 1327. On 7 October 1328 he was captured in Boreham Wood, Elstree, Herts, by some adherents of his patron, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, who, for his treachery, cut off his head [g].
He married, about 1311, certainly before August 1314, Maud, daughter and coheir of Alan (LA ZOUCHE), LORD ZOUCHE, with whom he acquired extensive estates, including the manor of Brackley, Northants. He died as aforesaid, 7 October 1328, and is said to have been buried in the Grey Friars' Church at Preston, Lancs, to which he had been a benefactor. At the Queen's request provision was made for the wife and children while his lands were in the King's hand. His widow, who was going on a pilgrimage to Santiago in 1336, died 31 May 1349, and was buried at Brackley.
[Complete Peerage VI:528-31, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(c) This Sir Robert was son of Thurston, son of Robert de Holand. He m. before 1276, when he and his wife were involved in a suit about Salmesbury. The date of his death is uncertain, probably about 1300. His widow was living 1311.
[g] They sent his head to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, at Waltham Cross by Sir Thomas Wytherand and others.
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That this family was of great antiquity in the county of Lancaster is evident from the register of Cokersand Abbey, to which religious house some of its members were benefactors in King John's time. The first person of the name of any note was Robert de Holand, who was in the wars of Scotland, 31st Edward I [1303] and who owed his advancement to his becoming secretary to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, for previously he had been but a "poor knight." In the 1st Edward II [1307], he obtained large territorial grants from the crown, viz., the manors of Melburne, Newton, Osmundeston, Swarkeston, Chelardeston, Normanton, and Wybeleston, in the county of Derby, and the same year had a military summons to march against the Scots. In the 8th Edward II [1315], he was first summoned to parliament as a baron; and in the 10th and 12th, he was again in the wars of Scotland, in which latter year he had license to make a castle of his manor house of Bagworth, co. Leicester. Upon the insurrection of his old master, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (15th Edward II), his lordship promised that nobleman, to whom he owed his first rise in the world, all the aid in his power, but failing to fulfill his engagement, Lancaster was forced to fly northwards and was finally taken prisoner at Boroughbridge, when Lord Holand rendered himself to the king at Derby and was sent prisoner to Dover Castle. For this duplicity he became so odious to the people that, being afterwards made prisoner a second time, in a wood near Henley Park, toward Windsor, he was beheaded on the nones of October, anno 1328, and his head sent to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, then at Waltham Cross, co. Essex, by Sir Thomas Wyther and some other private friends.
His lordship m. Maud, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Alan le Zouch, of Ashby, and had issue, Robert, Thomas, Alan, Otho, Jane, and Mary. Robert, Lord Holand, was s. by his eldest son, Sir Robert Holand, 2nd baron.
[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 278-9, Holand, Barons Holand]
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According to Wikipedia:
Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 - 1328) was an English nobleman, born in Lancashire.
Early life
Holland was a son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire and Elizabeth, daughter of William de Samlesbury.
Holland was a member of the noble Holland family and a favourite official of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and was knighted by 1305. He was appointed on 20 December 1307 in a matter concerning the Knight Templars, shortly before Edward II ordered their arrest and trials in January 1308. In October 1313 Holland was pardoned for his role in the death of Piers Gaveston.[1][non-primary source needed] From 1314 to 1321 he was called to Parliament as a baron and was appointed as secretary to the Earl of Lancaster.[2]
Banastre Rebellion (1315)
Holland's favoured treatment by the powerful earl caused his rival knights in the area, led by Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea, and William de Bradshagh (Bradshaw), to start a campaign of violence towards him and the earl's other supporters known as the Banastre Rebellion. The rebels protested against the earl's actions and authority by attacking the homes of his supporters and several castles, including Liverpool Castle. Holland later assisted in the hunt for fugitives after the rebels had been routed in Preston by a force under the command of the Sheriff of Lancashire.
Battle of Boroughbridge (1322) and Invasion of England (1326)
On 4 March 1322 Holland was ordered to join the king with horses and men to defend against Lancaster's rebellion. Twelve days later Holland betrayed the king and fought alongside Lancaster at the Battle of Boroughbridge.[1][non-primary source needed]
After their defeat, Holland surrendered and was imprisoned and had his lands confiscated. He was released from prison but was accused of having joined with other rebels in raids on the estates of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester over the next few years.[1][non-primary source needed] Holland was again imprisoned in Warwick Castle[3] before being moved in 1326 to Northampton Castle from which he escaped.[4][non-primary source needed]
Demise
Following Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer's overthrow of Edward II, Holland was pardoned for his escape from Northampton at the request of Henry de Beaumont;[4][non-primary source needed] his lands were restored to him on 24 December 1327.[5][non-primary source needed]
Holland still had enemies from the Banastre Rebellion though and in June 1328 they attempted to outlaw Holland for the deaths of Banastre and his followers, thirteen years after their deaths. Holland appealed against this but was killed[5][non-primary source needed] in October in a wood near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Thomas Wither is named by some as the murderer and is claimed to have been a supporter of the new Earl of Lancaster, Henry but in light of Holland's outlawry in June may have been a supporter of Banastre as well. Holland was beheaded, his head sent to the Earl of Lancaster at Waltham Cross and his body to Preston, Lancashire where it was buried in the church of Grey Friars.[2] The inaccuracies of some accounts of Holland suggest his rivals may have smeared him deliberately.
An Inquisition Post Mortem held in October 1328 found he held lands in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and London.[6][non-primary source needed]
Marriage and issue
Melbourne Castle was started by de Holland in Melbourne, Derbyshire.[7]
Holland married before 1309/10 (being contracted to marry in or before 1305/6) Maud la Zouche, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby, by his wife, Eleanor de Segrave. Holland and Maud had nine children:
Robert de Holand (born c.1311-12 [aged 16 in 1328, aged 30 and more in 1349] - died 16 March 1372/3), 2nd Baron Holand. He married before 25 June 1343 (date of fine) Elizabeth _____.
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, KG (died 26 or 28 December 1360), of Broughton, Buckinghamshire, Hawes (in Brackley), Brackley and King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Horden, Durham, etc., created Earl of Kent in 1360. He married Joan Plantagenet, the "Fair Maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, a son of King Edward I by his second wife Margaret of France, daughter of Philip III of France.
Sir Otho Holand, KG (died 3 September 1359), of Ashford, Chesterfield, and Dalbury, Derbyshire, Yoxall, Staffordshire, Talworth (in Long Ditton), Surrey, etc., Governor of the Channel Islands, 1359. He married Joan _____.
Alan de Holand, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire, living 13 October 1331 (date of fine). He was killed sometime before 30 October 1339 by William Bate, of Dunham-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Isabel de Holand. Mistress of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
Margaret de Holand (died 20 or 22 August 1349). She married Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.
Maud de Holand (living 1342). She married (1st) John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray; (2nd) Thomas de Swinnerton, 3rd Lord Swinnerton.
Elizabeth de Holand (died 13 July 1387). She married Henry Fitz Roger, of Chewton, Somerset, descendant of Herbert of Winchester.[8]
Eleanor de Holand (died before 21 Nov. 1341). She married John Darcy, 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith.
References
Parl Writs II Digest 1834.
Holland 1902
Moor 1929
Patent Rolls 1232-1509.
Close Rolls 1224-1468.
Cal Inq PMs VII.
Melbourne Castle, Picture the Past, accessed August 2009
Burke, J. (1838) A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Oxford University pg 729(via Google)
Sources
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. VII. London: HMSO. 1909.
Holland, Edgar (1902). A History of the Family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford. Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press.
Moor, Charles (1929). The Knights of Edward I. London: Harleian Society.
Close Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1224-1468.
Patent Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1232-1509.
Parliamentary Writs Alphabetical Digest. II. London: Public Record Office. 1834.
According to Wikipedia:
Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 - 1328) was an English nobleman, born in Lancashire.
Early life
Holland was a son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire and Elizabeth, daughter of William de Samlesbury.
Holland was a member of the noble Holland family and a favourite official of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and was knighted by 1305. He was appointed on 20 December 1307 in a matter concerning the Knight Templars, shortly before Edward II ordered their arrest and trials in January 1308. In October 1313 Holland was pardoned for his role in the death of Piers Gaveston.[1][non-primary source needed] From 1314 to 1321 he was called to Parliament as a baron and was appointed as secretary to the Earl of Lancaster.[2]
Banastre Rebellion (1315)
Holland's favoured treatment by the powerful earl caused his rival knights in the area, led by Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea, and William de Bradshagh (Bradshaw), to start a campaign of violence towards him and the earl's other supporters known as the Banastre Rebellion. The rebels protested against the earl's actions and authority by attacking the homes of his supporters and several castles, including Liverpool Castle. Holland later assisted in the hunt for fugitives after the rebels had been routed in Preston by a force under the command of the Sheriff of Lancashire.
Battle of Boroughbridge (1322) and Invasion of England (1326)
On 4 March 1322 Holland was ordered to join the king with horses and men to defend against Lancaster's rebellion. Twelve days later Holland betrayed the king and fought alongside Lancaster at the Battle of Boroughbridge.[1][non-primary source needed]
After their defeat, Holland surrendered and was imprisoned and had his lands confiscated. He was released from prison but was accused of having joined with other rebels in raids on the estates of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester over the next few years.[1][non-primary source needed] Holland was again imprisoned in Warwick Castle[3] before being moved in 1326 to Northampton Castle from which he escaped.[4][non-primary source needed]
Demise
Following Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer's overthrow of Edward II, Holland was pardoned for his escape from Northampton at the request of Henry de Beaumont;[4][non-primary source needed] his lands were restored to him on 24 December 1327.[5][non-primary source needed]
Holland still had enemies from the Banastre Rebellion though and in June 1328 they attempted to outlaw Holland for the deaths of Banastre and his followers, thirteen years after their deaths. Holland appealed against this but was killed[5][non-primary source needed] in October in a wood near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Thomas Wither is named by some as the murderer and is claimed to have been a supporter of the new Earl of Lancaster, Henry but in light of Holland's outlawry in June may have been a supporter of Banastre as well. Holland was beheaded, his head sent to the Earl of Lancaster at Waltham Cross and his body to Preston, Lancashire where it was buried in the church of Grey Friars.[2] The inaccuracies of some accounts of Holland suggest his rivals may have smeared him deliberately.
An Inquisition Post Mortem held in October 1328 found he held lands in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and London.[6][non-primary source needed]
Marriage and issue
Melbourne Castle was started by de Holland in Melbourne, Derbyshire.[7]
Holland married before 1309/10 (being contracted to marry in or before 1305/6) Maud la Zouche, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby, by his wife, Eleanor de Segrave. Holland and Maud had nine children:
Robert de Holand (born c.1311-12 [aged 16 in 1328, aged 30 and more in 1349] - died 16 March 1372/3), 2nd Baron Holand. He married before 25 June 1343 (date of fine) Elizabeth _____.
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, KG (died 26 or 28 December 1360), of Broughton, Buckinghamshire, Hawes (in Brackley), Brackley and King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Horden, Durham, etc., created Earl of Kent in 1360. He married Joan Plantagenet, the "Fair Maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, a son of King Edward I by his second wife Margaret of France, daughter of Philip III of France.
Sir Otho Holand, KG (died 3 September 1359), of Ashford, Chesterfield, and Dalbury, Derbyshire, Yoxall, Staffordshire, Talworth (in Long Ditton), Surrey, etc., Governor of the Channel Islands, 1359. He married Joan _____.
Alan de Holand, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire, living 13 October 1331 (date of fine). He was killed sometime before 30 October 1339 by William Bate, of Dunham-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Isabel de Holand. Mistress of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
Margaret de Holand (died 20 or 22 August 1349). She married Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.
Maud de Holand (living 1342). She married (1st) John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray; (2nd) Thomas de Swinnerton, 3rd Lord Swinnerton.
Elizabeth de Holand (died 13 July 1387). She married Henry Fitz Roger, of Chewton, Somerset, descendant of Herbert of Winchester.[8]
Eleanor de Holand (died before 21 Nov. 1341). She married John Darcy, 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith.
References
Parl Writs II Digest 1834.
Holland 1902
Moor 1929
Patent Rolls 1232-1509.
Close Rolls 1224-1468.
Cal Inq PMs VII.
Melbourne Castle, Picture the Past, accessed August 2009
Burke, J. (1838) A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Oxford University pg 729(via Google)
Sources
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. VII. London: HMSO. 1909.
Holland, Edgar (1902). A History of the Family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford. Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press.
Moor, Charles (1929). The Knights of Edward I. London: Harleian Society.
Close Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1224-1468.
Patent Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1232-1509.
Parliamentary Writs Alphabetical Digest. II. London: Public Record Office. 1834.
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Sir Robert de Holand of Upholand, co. Lancaster, b. probably c 1270, executed in Boreham Wood 7 Oct 1328, Lord Holand, MP 1314-1321, son of Sir Robert de Holand and Elizabeth de Samlesbury.
[Magna Charta Sureties]
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BARONY OF HOLAND (I)
SIR ROBERT DE HOLAND, son of Sir Robert De HOLAND, of Upholland, co. Lancs (c), by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William DE SAMLESBURY, was born probably about 1270. In 1292 his father settled upon him a tenement in Pemberton and Orrell. He became a favourite official of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and thus grew in importance and wealth. He was a Commissioner in 1303; in 1304 had charters for free warren in his demesne lands of Upholland, Hale, Orrell and Markland in Pemberton, and for a market at Hale; in 1307 a charter for free warren in Nether Kellet, and in 1315 one for lands in Dalbury. He was a Knight in 1307, and was present at the Dunstable Tournament of 1308/9; had licence to crenellate his manor house of Upholland in 1308, and that at Bagworth, co. Leicester, in 1318; and in 1308 was employed by the Earl in a settlement of his manor of Melbourn, co. Derby. He was justice of Chester several times between 1307 and 1320, and in 1312 was Governor of Beeston Castle, co. Chester. In 1310 he founded a college of priests in the Chapel of St. Thomas at Upholland, but eight years later altered it to a Priory of Benedictine monks. He acquired various other manors and lands-e.g., West Derby in 1316, and Mottram in Longdendale (by exchange) in 1318 ; and in 1321 procured from the Earl a curious variation in the tenure of his hereditary manors, by which in future he and his successors were, without relaxing the ancient services, to hold Upholland and the rest by distributing for the Earl's soul each 29 December (St. Thomas the Martyr) certain charities. In September 1313 he had a safe conduct for attending Parliament at Westminster. He was summoned for military service against the Scots at Newcastle August 1314 and in 1316, in which latter year he was a Commissioner of Array in Lancashire, and was called on to attend musters 1317-19. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July (1314) to 15 May 1321, by writs directed Roberto de Holand, whereby he is held to have become LORD HOLAND. He took sides with his patron the Earl of Lancaster in his various contentions with the King, being pardoned in 1313 for complicity in the death of Piers de Gavaston; in 1315 he assisted in suppressing the rising of Adam Banastre in Lancashire and in 1318 was again pardoned for adherence to the Earl. In the Earl's final rising, in February and March 1321/2, he is said to have played a cowardly or treacherous part. On the Earl's flight northward, before the battle of Boroughbridge, he surrendered to the King at Derby, and was sent to Dover Castle. He appears, however, to have fought at Boroughbridge, surrendering after the battle and was certainly treated as a rebel, all his lands being taken into the King's hand. He was imprisoned in various places. At the accession of Edward III he petitioned for the restitution of his lands, and this was granted to him on 23 December 1327. On 7 October 1328 he was captured in Boreham Wood, Elstree, Herts, by some adherents of his patron, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, who, for his treachery, cut off his head [g].
He married, about 1311, certainly before August 1314, Maud, daughter and coheir of Alan (LA ZOUCHE), LORD ZOUCHE, with whom he acquired extensive estates, including the manor of Brackley, Northants. He died as aforesaid, 7 October 1328, and is said to have been buried in the Grey Friars' Church at Preston, Lancs, to which he had been a benefactor. At the Queen's request provision was made for the wife and children while his lands were in the King's hand. His widow, who was going on a pilgrimage to Santiago in 1336, died 31 May 1349, and was buried at Brackley.
[Complete Peerage VI:528-31, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(c) This Sir Robert was son of Thurston, son of Robert de Holand. He m. before 1276, when he and his wife were involved in a suit about Salmesbury. The date of his death is uncertain, probably about 1300. His widow was living 1311.
[g] They sent his head to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, at Waltham Cross by Sir Thomas Wytherand and others.
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That this family was of great antiquity in the county of Lancaster is evident from the register of Cokersand Abbey, to which religious house some of its members were benefactors in King John's time. The first person of the name of any note was Robert de Holand, who was in the wars of Scotland, 31st Edward I [1303] and who owed his advancement to his becoming secretary to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, for previously he had been but a "poor knight." In the 1st Edward II [1307], he obtained large territorial grants from the crown, viz., the manors of Melburne, Newton, Osmundeston, Swarkeston, Chelardeston, Normanton, and Wybeleston, in the county of Derby, and the same year had a military summons to march against the Scots. In the 8th Edward II [1315], he was first summoned to parliament as a baron; and in the 10th and 12th, he was again in the wars of Scotland, in which latter year he had license to make a castle of his manor house of Bagworth, co. Leicester. Upon the insurrection of his old master, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (15th Edward II), his lordship promised that nobleman, to whom he owed his first rise in the world, all the aid in his power, but failing to fulfill his engagement, Lancaster was forced to fly northwards and was finally taken prisoner at Boroughbridge, when Lord Holand rendered himself to the king at Derby and was sent prisoner to Dover Castle. For this duplicity he became so odious to the people that, being afterwards made prisoner a second time, in a wood near Henley Park, toward Windsor, he was beheaded on the nones of October, anno 1328, and his head sent to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, then at Waltham Cross, co. Essex, by Sir Thomas Wyther and some other private friends.
His lordship m. Maud, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Alan le Zouch, of Ashby, and had issue, Robert, Thomas, Alan, Otho, Jane, and Mary. Robert, Lord Holand, was s. by his eldest son, Sir Robert Holand, 2nd baron.
[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 278-9, Holand, Barons Holand]
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According to Wikipedia:
Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 - 1328) was an English nobleman, born in Lancashire.
Early life
Holland was a son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire and Elizabeth, daughter of William de Samlesbury.
Holland was a member of the noble Holland family and a favourite official of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and was knighted by 1305. He was appointed on 20 December 1307 in a matter concerning the Knight Templars, shortly before Edward II ordered their arrest and trials in January 1308. In October 1313 Holland was pardoned for his role in the death of Piers Gaveston.[1][non-primary source needed] From 1314 to 1321 he was called to Parliament as a baron and was appointed as secretary to the Earl of Lancaster.[2]
Banastre Rebellion (1315)
Holland's favoured treatment by the powerful earl caused his rival knights in the area, led by Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea, and William de Bradshagh (Bradshaw), to start a campaign of violence towards him and the earl's other supporters known as the Banastre Rebellion. The rebels protested against the earl's actions and authority by attacking the homes of his supporters and several castles, including Liverpool Castle. Holland later assisted in the hunt for fugitives after the rebels had been routed in Preston by a force under the command of the Sheriff of Lancashire.
Battle of Boroughbridge (1322) and Invasion of England (1326)
On 4 March 1322 Holland was ordered to join the king with horses and men to defend against Lancaster's rebellion. Twelve days later Holland betrayed the king and fought alongside Lancaster at the Battle of Boroughbridge.[1][non-primary source needed]
After their defeat, Holland surrendered and was imprisoned and had his lands confiscated. He was released from prison but was accused of having joined with other rebels in raids on the estates of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester over the next few years.[1][non-primary source needed] Holland was again imprisoned in Warwick Castle[3] before being moved in 1326 to Northampton Castle from which he escaped.[4][non-primary source needed]
Demise
Following Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer's overthrow of Edward II, Holland was pardoned for his escape from Northampton at the request of Henry de Beaumont;[4][non-primary source needed] his lands were restored to him on 24 December 1327.[5][non-primary source needed]
Holland still had enemies from the Banastre Rebellion though and in June 1328 they attempted to outlaw Holland for the deaths of Banastre and his followers, thirteen years after their deaths. Holland appealed against this but was killed[5][non-primary source needed] in October in a wood near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Thomas Wither is named by some as the murderer and is claimed to have been a supporter of the new Earl of Lancaster, Henry but in light of Holland's outlawry in June may have been a supporter of Banastre as well. Holland was beheaded, his head sent to the Earl of Lancaster at Waltham Cross and his body to Preston, Lancashire where it was buried in the church of Grey Friars.[2] The inaccuracies of some accounts of Holland suggest his rivals may have smeared him deliberately.
An Inquisition Post Mortem held in October 1328 found he held lands in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and London.[6][non-primary source needed]
Marriage and issue
Melbourne Castle was started by de Holland in Melbourne, Derbyshire.[7]
Holland married before 1309/10 (being contracted to marry in or before 1305/6) Maud la Zouche, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby, by his wife, Eleanor de Segrave. Holland and Maud had nine children:
Robert de Holand (born c.1311-12 [aged 16 in 1328, aged 30 and more in 1349] - died 16 March 1372/3), 2nd Baron Holand. He married before 25 June 1343 (date of fine) Elizabeth _____.
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, KG (died 26 or 28 December 1360), of Broughton, Buckinghamshire, Hawes (in Brackley), Brackley and King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Horden, Durham, etc., created Earl of Kent in 1360. He married Joan Plantagenet, the "Fair Maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, a son of King Edward I by his second wife Margaret of France, daughter of Philip III of France.
Sir Otho Holand, KG (died 3 September 1359), of Ashford, Chesterfield, and Dalbury, Derbyshire, Yoxall, Staffordshire, Talworth (in Long Ditton), Surrey, etc., Governor of the Channel Islands, 1359. He married Joan _____.
Alan de Holand, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire, living 13 October 1331 (date of fine). He was killed sometime before 30 October 1339 by William Bate, of Dunham-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Isabel de Holand. Mistress of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
Margaret de Holand (died 20 or 22 August 1349). She married Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.
Maud de Holand (living 1342). She married (1st) John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray; (2nd) Thomas de Swinnerton, 3rd Lord Swinnerton.
Elizabeth de Holand (died 13 July 1387). She married Henry Fitz Roger, of Chewton, Somerset, descendant of Herbert of Winchester.[8]
Eleanor de Holand (died before 21 Nov. 1341). She married John Darcy, 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith.
References
Parl Writs II Digest 1834.
Holland 1902
Moor 1929
Patent Rolls 1232-1509.
Close Rolls 1224-1468.
Cal Inq PMs VII.
Melbourne Castle, Picture the Past, accessed August 2009
Burke, J. (1838) A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Oxford University pg 729(via Google)
Sources
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. VII. London: HMSO. 1909.
Holland, Edgar (1902). A History of the Family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford. Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press.
Moor, Charles (1929). The Knights of Edward I. London: Harleian Society.
Close Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1224-1468.
Patent Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1232-1509.
Parliamentary Writs Alphabetical Digest. II. London: Public Record Office. 1834.
According to Wikipedia:
Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 - 1328) was an English nobleman, born in Lancashire.
Early life
Holland was a son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire and Elizabeth, daughter of William de Samlesbury.
Holland was a member of the noble Holland family and a favourite official of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and was knighted by 1305. He was appointed on 20 December 1307 in a matter concerning the Knight Templars, shortly before Edward II ordered their arrest and trials in January 1308. In October 1313 Holland was pardoned for his role in the death of Piers Gaveston.[1][non-primary source needed] From 1314 to 1321 he was called to Parliament as a baron and was appointed as secretary to the Earl of Lancaster.[2]
Banastre Rebellion (1315)
Holland's favoured treatment by the powerful earl caused his rival knights in the area, led by Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea, and William de Bradshagh (Bradshaw), to start a campaign of violence towards him and the earl's other supporters known as the Banastre Rebellion. The rebels protested against the earl's actions and authority by attacking the homes of his supporters and several castles, including Liverpool Castle. Holland later assisted in the hunt for fugitives after the rebels had been routed in Preston by a force under the command of the Sheriff of Lancashire.
Battle of Boroughbridge (1322) and Invasion of England (1326)
On 4 March 1322 Holland was ordered to join the king with horses and men to defend against Lancaster's rebellion. Twelve days later Holland betrayed the king and fought alongside Lancaster at the Battle of Boroughbridge.[1][non-primary source needed]
After their defeat, Holland surrendered and was imprisoned and had his lands confiscated. He was released from prison but was accused of having joined with other rebels in raids on the estates of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester over the next few years.[1][non-primary source needed] Holland was again imprisoned in Warwick Castle[3] before being moved in 1326 to Northampton Castle from which he escaped.[4][non-primary source needed]
Demise
Following Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer's overthrow of Edward II, Holland was pardoned for his escape from Northampton at the request of Henry de Beaumont;[4][non-primary source needed] his lands were restored to him on 24 December 1327.[5][non-primary source needed]
Holland still had enemies from the Banastre Rebellion though and in June 1328 they attempted to outlaw Holland for the deaths of Banastre and his followers, thirteen years after their deaths. Holland appealed against this but was killed[5][non-primary source needed] in October in a wood near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Thomas Wither is named by some as the murderer and is claimed to have been a supporter of the new Earl of Lancaster, Henry but in light of Holland's outlawry in June may have been a supporter of Banastre as well. Holland was beheaded, his head sent to the Earl of Lancaster at Waltham Cross and his body to Preston, Lancashire where it was buried in the church of Grey Friars.[2] The inaccuracies of some accounts of Holland suggest his rivals may have smeared him deliberately.
An Inquisition Post Mortem held in October 1328 found he held lands in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and London.[6][non-primary source needed]
Marriage and issue
Melbourne Castle was started by de Holland in Melbourne, Derbyshire.[7]
Holland married before 1309/10 (being contracted to marry in or before 1305/6) Maud la Zouche, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby, by his wife, Eleanor de Segrave. Holland and Maud had nine children:
Robert de Holand (born c.1311-12 [aged 16 in 1328, aged 30 and more in 1349] - died 16 March 1372/3), 2nd Baron Holand. He married before 25 June 1343 (date of fine) Elizabeth _____.
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, KG (died 26 or 28 December 1360), of Broughton, Buckinghamshire, Hawes (in Brackley), Brackley and King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Horden, Durham, etc., created Earl of Kent in 1360. He married Joan Plantagenet, the "Fair Maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, a son of King Edward I by his second wife Margaret of France, daughter of Philip III of France.
Sir Otho Holand, KG (died 3 September 1359), of Ashford, Chesterfield, and Dalbury, Derbyshire, Yoxall, Staffordshire, Talworth (in Long Ditton), Surrey, etc., Governor of the Channel Islands, 1359. He married Joan _____.
Alan de Holand, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire, living 13 October 1331 (date of fine). He was killed sometime before 30 October 1339 by William Bate, of Dunham-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Isabel de Holand. Mistress of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
Margaret de Holand (died 20 or 22 August 1349). She married Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.
Maud de Holand (living 1342). She married (1st) John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray; (2nd) Thomas de Swinnerton, 3rd Lord Swinnerton.
Elizabeth de Holand (died 13 July 1387). She married Henry Fitz Roger, of Chewton, Somerset, descendant of Herbert of Winchester.[8]
Eleanor de Holand (died before 21 Nov. 1341). She married John Darcy, 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith.
References
Parl Writs II Digest 1834.
Holland 1902
Moor 1929
Patent Rolls 1232-1509.
Close Rolls 1224-1468.
Cal Inq PMs VII.
Melbourne Castle, Picture the Past, accessed August 2009
Burke, J. (1838) A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Oxford University pg 729(via Google)
Sources
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. VII. London: HMSO. 1909.
Holland, Edgar (1902). A History of the Family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford. Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press.
Moor, Charles (1929). The Knights of Edward I. London: Harleian Society.
Close Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1224-1468.
Patent Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1232-1509.
Parliamentary Writs Alphabetical Digest. II. London: Public Record Office. 1834.
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Sir Robert de Holand, 1st Lord (Baron) Holand, so created by writ of summons 29 July 1314 (b. c 1270; in retinue of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster (grandson of Henry III), who substantially advanced his career and with whom he sided (though not apparently without tergiversation) in the latter's disputes with Edward II, notably at the final battle between Lancaster and the royal forces at Boroughbridge March 1321/2; after Boroughbridge his lands were confiscated but were restored him on Edward III's coming to the throne; knight 1307; Justice of Chester intermittenly 1307-20, Governor of Beeston Castle, Cheshire 1312; served in Scottish campaigns 1314 and 1316; commissioner of Array of Lancaster 1316; among his many grants of land was the Manor of Thorpe Waterville, Northants, which he acquired 1319; he also held land in Pendleton, Lancs, from the Priory of St Thomas Stafford; decapitated 7 Oct 1328 by followers of his old leader Lancaster, who not unnaturally resented his less than whole-hearted support, after being taken in Boreham Wood, Herts), son of Sir Robert de Holand, of Upholland, Lancs (son of Thurstan, son of Robert de Holand), by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William Samlesbury.
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Sir Robert de Holand of Upholand, co. Lancaster, b. probably c 1270, executed in Boreham Wood 7 Oct 1328, Lord Holand, MP 1314-1321, son of Sir Robert de Holand and Elizabeth de Samlesbury.
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BARONY OF HOLAND (I)
SIR ROBERT DE HOLAND, son of Sir Robert De HOLAND, of Upholland, co. Lancs (c), by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William DE SAMLESBURY, was born probably about 1270. In 1292 his father settled upon him a tenement in Pemberton and Orrell. He became a favourite official of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and thus grew in importance and wealth. He was a Commissioner in 1303; in 1304 had charters for free warren in his demesne lands of Upholland, Hale, Orrell and Markland in Pemberton, and for a market at Hale; in 1307 a charter for free warren in Nether Kellet, and in 1315 one for lands in Dalbury. He was a Knight in 1307, and was present at the Dunstable Tournament of 1308/9; had licence to crenellate his manor house of Upholland in 1308, and that at Bagworth, co. Leicester, in 1318; and in 1308 was employed by the Earl in a settlement of his manor of Melbourn, co. Derby. He was justice of Chester several times between 1307 and 1320, and in 1312 was Governor of Beeston Castle, co. Chester. In 1310 he founded a college of priests in the Chapel of St. Thomas at Upholland, but eight years later altered it to a Priory of Benedictine monks. He acquired various other manors and lands-e.g., West Derby in 1316, and Mottram in Longdendale (by exchange) in 1318 ; and in 1321 procured from the Earl a curious variation in the tenure of his hereditary manors, by which in future he and his successors were, without relaxing the ancient services, to hold Upholland and the rest by distributing for the Earl's soul each 29 December (St. Thomas the Martyr) certain charities. In September 1313 he had a safe conduct for attending Parliament at Westminster. He was summoned for military service against the Scots at Newcastle August 1314 and in 1316, in which latter year he was a Commissioner of Array in Lancashire, and was called on to attend musters 1317-19. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July (1314) to 15 May 1321, by writs directed Roberto de Holand, whereby he is held to have become LORD HOLAND. He took sides with his patron the Earl of Lancaster in his various contentions with the King, being pardoned in 1313 for complicity in the death of Piers de Gavaston; in 1315 he assisted in suppressing the rising of Adam Banastre in Lancashire and in 1318 was again pardoned for adherence to the Earl. In the Earl's final rising, in February and March 1321/2, he is said to have played a cowardly or treacherous part. On the Earl's flight northward, before the battle of Boroughbridge, he surrendered to the King at Derby, and was sent to Dover Castle. He appears, however, to have fought at Boroughbridge, surrendering after the battle and was certainly treated as a rebel, all his lands being taken into the King's hand. He was imprisoned in various places. At the accession of Edward III he petitioned for the restitution of his lands, and this was granted to him on 23 December 1327. On 7 October 1328 he was captured in Boreham Wood, Elstree, Herts, by some adherents of his patron, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, who, for his treachery, cut off his head [g].
He married, about 1311, certainly before August 1314, Maud, daughter and coheir of Alan (LA ZOUCHE), LORD ZOUCHE, with whom he acquired extensive estates, including the manor of Brackley, Northants. He died as aforesaid, 7 October 1328, and is said to have been buried in the Grey Friars' Church at Preston, Lancs, to which he had been a benefactor. At the Queen's request provision was made for the wife and children while his lands were in the King's hand. His widow, who was going on a pilgrimage to Santiago in 1336, died 31 May 1349, and was buried at Brackley.
[Complete Peerage VI:528-31, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(c) This Sir Robert was son of Thurston, son of Robert de Holand. He m. before 1276, when he and his wife were involved in a suit about Salmesbury. The date of his death is uncertain, probably about 1300. His widow was living 1311.
[g] They sent his head to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, at Waltham Cross by Sir Thomas Wytherand and others.
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That this family was of great antiquity in the county of Lancaster is evident from the register of Cokersand Abbey, to which religious house some of its members were benefactors in King John's time. The first person of the name of any note was Robert de Holand, who was in the wars of Scotland, 31st Edward I [1303] and who owed his advancement to his becoming secretary to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, for previously he had been but a "poor knight." In the 1st Edward II [1307], he obtained large territorial grants from the crown, viz., the manors of Melburne, Newton, Osmundeston, Swarkeston, Chelardeston, Normanton, and Wybeleston, in the county of Derby, and the same year had a military summons to march against the Scots. In the 8th Edward II [1315], he was first summoned to parliament as a baron; and in the 10th and 12th, he was again in the wars of Scotland, in which latter year he had license to make a castle of his manor house of Bagworth, co. Leicester. Upon the insurrection of his old master, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (15th Edward II), his lordship promised that nobleman, to whom he owed his first rise in the world, all the aid in his power, but failing to fulfill his engagement, Lancaster was forced to fly northwards and was finally taken prisoner at Boroughbridge, when Lord Holand rendered himself to the king at Derby and was sent prisoner to Dover Castle. For this duplicity he became so odious to the people that, being afterwards made prisoner a second time, in a wood near Henley Park, toward Windsor, he was beheaded on the nones of October, anno 1328, and his head sent to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, then at Waltham Cross, co. Essex, by Sir Thomas Wyther and some other private friends.
His lordship m. Maud, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Alan le Zouch, of Ashby, and had issue, Robert, Thomas, Alan, Otho, Jane, and Mary. Robert, Lord Holand, was s. by his eldest son, Sir Robert Holand, 2nd baron.
[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 278-9, Holand, Barons Holand]
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According to Wikipedia:
Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 - 1328) was an English nobleman, born in Lancashire.
Early life
Holland was a son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire and Elizabeth, daughter of William de Samlesbury.
Holland was a member of the noble Holland family and a favourite official of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and was knighted by 1305. He was appointed on 20 December 1307 in a matter concerning the Knight Templars, shortly before Edward II ordered their arrest and trials in January 1308. In October 1313 Holland was pardoned for his role in the death of Piers Gaveston.[1][non-primary source needed] From 1314 to 1321 he was called to Parliament as a baron and was appointed as secretary to the Earl of Lancaster.[2]
Banastre Rebellion (1315)
Holland's favoured treatment by the powerful earl caused his rival knights in the area, led by Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea, and William de Bradshagh (Bradshaw), to start a campaign of violence towards him and the earl's other supporters known as the Banastre Rebellion. The rebels protested against the earl's actions and authority by attacking the homes of his supporters and several castles, including Liverpool Castle. Holland later assisted in the hunt for fugitives after the rebels had been routed in Preston by a force under the command of the Sheriff of Lancashire.
Battle of Boroughbridge (1322) and Invasion of England (1326)
On 4 March 1322 Holland was ordered to join the king with horses and men to defend against Lancaster's rebellion. Twelve days later Holland betrayed the king and fought alongside Lancaster at the Battle of Boroughbridge.[1][non-primary source needed]
After their defeat, Holland surrendered and was imprisoned and had his lands confiscated. He was released from prison but was accused of having joined with other rebels in raids on the estates of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester over the next few years.[1][non-primary source needed] Holland was again imprisoned in Warwick Castle[3] before being moved in 1326 to Northampton Castle from which he escaped.[4][non-primary source needed]
Demise
Following Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer's overthrow of Edward II, Holland was pardoned for his escape from Northampton at the request of Henry de Beaumont;[4][non-primary source needed] his lands were restored to him on 24 December 1327.[5][non-primary source needed]
Holland still had enemies from the Banastre Rebellion though and in June 1328 they attempted to outlaw Holland for the deaths of Banastre and his followers, thirteen years after their deaths. Holland appealed against this but was killed[5][non-primary source needed] in October in a wood near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Thomas Wither is named by some as the murderer and is claimed to have been a supporter of the new Earl of Lancaster, Henry but in light of Holland's outlawry in June may have been a supporter of Banastre as well. Holland was beheaded, his head sent to the Earl of Lancaster at Waltham Cross and his body to Preston, Lancashire where it was buried in the church of Grey Friars.[2] The inaccuracies of some accounts of Holland suggest his rivals may have smeared him deliberately.
An Inquisition Post Mortem held in October 1328 found he held lands in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and London.[6][non-primary source needed]
Marriage and issue
Melbourne Castle was started by de Holland in Melbourne, Derbyshire.[7]
Holland married before 1309/10 (being contracted to marry in or before 1305/6) Maud la Zouche, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby, by his wife, Eleanor de Segrave. Holland and Maud had nine children:
Robert de Holand (born c.1311-12 [aged 16 in 1328, aged 30 and more in 1349] - died 16 March 1372/3), 2nd Baron Holand. He married before 25 June 1343 (date of fine) Elizabeth _____.
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, KG (died 26 or 28 December 1360), of Broughton, Buckinghamshire, Hawes (in Brackley), Brackley and King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Horden, Durham, etc., created Earl of Kent in 1360. He married Joan Plantagenet, the "Fair Maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, a son of King Edward I by his second wife Margaret of France, daughter of Philip III of France.
Sir Otho Holand, KG (died 3 September 1359), of Ashford, Chesterfield, and Dalbury, Derbyshire, Yoxall, Staffordshire, Talworth (in Long Ditton), Surrey, etc., Governor of the Channel Islands, 1359. He married Joan _____.
Alan de Holand, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire, living 13 October 1331 (date of fine). He was killed sometime before 30 October 1339 by William Bate, of Dunham-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Isabel de Holand. Mistress of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
Margaret de Holand (died 20 or 22 August 1349). She married Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.
Maud de Holand (living 1342). She married (1st) John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray; (2nd) Thomas de Swinnerton, 3rd Lord Swinnerton.
Elizabeth de Holand (died 13 July 1387). She married Henry Fitz Roger, of Chewton, Somerset, descendant of Herbert of Winchester.[8]
Eleanor de Holand (died before 21 Nov. 1341). She married John Darcy, 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith.
References
Parl Writs II Digest 1834.
Holland 1902
Moor 1929
Patent Rolls 1232-1509.
Close Rolls 1224-1468.
Cal Inq PMs VII.
Melbourne Castle, Picture the Past, accessed August 2009
Burke, J. (1838) A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Oxford University pg 729(via Google)
Sources
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. VII. London: HMSO. 1909.
Holland, Edgar (1902). A History of the Family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford. Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press.
Moor, Charles (1929). The Knights of Edward I. London: Harleian Society.
Close Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1224-1468.
Patent Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1232-1509.
Parliamentary Writs Alphabetical Digest. II. London: Public Record Office. 1834.
According to Wikipedia:
Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 - 1328) was an English nobleman, born in Lancashire.
Early life
Holland was a son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire and Elizabeth, daughter of William de Samlesbury.
Holland was a member of the noble Holland family and a favourite official of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and was knighted by 1305. He was appointed on 20 December 1307 in a matter concerning the Knight Templars, shortly before Edward II ordered their arrest and trials in January 1308. In October 1313 Holland was pardoned for his role in the death of Piers Gaveston.[1][non-primary source needed] From 1314 to 1321 he was called to Parliament as a baron and was appointed as secretary to the Earl of Lancaster.[2]
Banastre Rebellion (1315)
Holland's favoured treatment by the powerful earl caused his rival knights in the area, led by Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea, and William de Bradshagh (Bradshaw), to start a campaign of violence towards him and the earl's other supporters known as the Banastre Rebellion. The rebels protested against the earl's actions and authority by attacking the homes of his supporters and several castles, including Liverpool Castle. Holland later assisted in the hunt for fugitives after the rebels had been routed in Preston by a force under the command of the Sheriff of Lancashire.
Battle of Boroughbridge (1322) and Invasion of England (1326)
On 4 March 1322 Holland was ordered to join the king with horses and men to defend against Lancaster's rebellion. Twelve days later Holland betrayed the king and fought alongside Lancaster at the Battle of Boroughbridge.[1][non-primary source needed]
After their defeat, Holland surrendered and was imprisoned and had his lands confiscated. He was released from prison but was accused of having joined with other rebels in raids on the estates of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester over the next few years.[1][non-primary source needed] Holland was again imprisoned in Warwick Castle[3] before being moved in 1326 to Northampton Castle from which he escaped.[4][non-primary source needed]
Demise
Following Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer's overthrow of Edward II, Holland was pardoned for his escape from Northampton at the request of Henry de Beaumont;[4][non-primary source needed] his lands were restored to him on 24 December 1327.[5][non-primary source needed]
Holland still had enemies from the Banastre Rebellion though and in June 1328 they attempted to outlaw Holland for the deaths of Banastre and his followers, thirteen years after their deaths. Holland appealed against this but was killed[5][non-primary source needed] in October in a wood near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Thomas Wither is named by some as the murderer and is claimed to have been a supporter of the new Earl of Lancaster, Henry but in light of Holland's outlawry in June may have been a supporter of Banastre as well. Holland was beheaded, his head sent to the Earl of Lancaster at Waltham Cross and his body to Preston, Lancashire where it was buried in the church of Grey Friars.[2] The inaccuracies of some accounts of Holland suggest his rivals may have smeared him deliberately.
An Inquisition Post Mortem held in October 1328 found he held lands in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and London.[6][non-primary source needed]
Marriage and issue
Melbourne Castle was started by de Holland in Melbourne, Derbyshire.[7]
Holland married before 1309/10 (being contracted to marry in or before 1305/6) Maud la Zouche, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby, by his wife, Eleanor de Segrave. Holland and Maud had nine children:
Robert de Holand (born c.1311-12 [aged 16 in 1328, aged 30 and more in 1349] - died 16 March 1372/3), 2nd Baron Holand. He married before 25 June 1343 (date of fine) Elizabeth _____.
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, KG (died 26 or 28 December 1360), of Broughton, Buckinghamshire, Hawes (in Brackley), Brackley and King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Horden, Durham, etc., created Earl of Kent in 1360. He married Joan Plantagenet, the "Fair Maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, a son of King Edward I by his second wife Margaret of France, daughter of Philip III of France.
Sir Otho Holand, KG (died 3 September 1359), of Ashford, Chesterfield, and Dalbury, Derbyshire, Yoxall, Staffordshire, Talworth (in Long Ditton), Surrey, etc., Governor of the Channel Islands, 1359. He married Joan _____.
Alan de Holand, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire, living 13 October 1331 (date of fine). He was killed sometime before 30 October 1339 by William Bate, of Dunham-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Isabel de Holand. Mistress of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
Margaret de Holand (died 20 or 22 August 1349). She married Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.
Maud de Holand (living 1342). She married (1st) John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray; (2nd) Thomas de Swinnerton, 3rd Lord Swinnerton.
Elizabeth de Holand (died 13 July 1387). She married Henry Fitz Roger, of Chewton, Somerset, descendant of Herbert of Winchester.[8]
Eleanor de Holand (died before 21 Nov. 1341). She married John Darcy, 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith.
References
Parl Writs II Digest 1834.
Holland 1902
Moor 1929
Patent Rolls 1232-1509.
Close Rolls 1224-1468.
Cal Inq PMs VII.
Melbourne Castle, Picture the Past, accessed August 2009
Burke, J. (1838) A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Oxford University pg 729(via Google)
Sources
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. VII. London: HMSO. 1909.
Holland, Edgar (1902). A History of the Family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford. Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press.
Moor, Charles (1929). The Knights of Edward I. London: Harleian Society.
Close Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1224-1468.
Patent Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1232-1509.
Parliamentary Writs Alphabetical Digest. II. London: Public Record Office. 1834.
Events
| Birth | 1283 | Upholland, Lancashire, England | |||
| Occupation | 1307 | Knight | |||
| Marriage | Bef 1314 | Winchester, Hampshire, England - Maud la Zouche | |||
| Occupation | 29 Jul 1314 | Baron de Holand, 1st Lord Holland | |||
| Death | 7 Oct 1328 | Beheaded by partisans, Boreham Wood, Essex, England | |||
| Burial | Greyfriars Church, Preston, Lancashire, , England | ||||
| Death cause | execution by beheading. | ||||
| Residence | Yoxall, Staffordshire, , England | ||||
| Residence | West Derby, Lancashire, , England | ||||
| Burial | Greyfriars Church/Preston, Lancashire, England | ||||
| Title (Nobility) | Sir | ||||
| Residence | West Derby, Lancashire, England | ||||
| Acceded | Upholland, Lancashire, England | ||||
| Residence | Yoxall, Staffordshire, England |
Families
| Spouse | Maud la Zouche (1289 - 1349) |
| Child | Thomas de Holland, Earl of Kent ( - 1360) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Maud de Holland ( - ) |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Sir Robert de Holland ( - 1304) |
| Mother | Elizabeth de Salmesbury (1256 - 1320) |
| Sibling | Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent ( - ) |
| Sibling | Avena de Holland (1277 - 1305) |
| Sibling | Margaret de Holland (1280 - ) |
| Sibling | Isabel de Holland (1286 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth de Holland (1286 - 1332) |
| Sibling | Joan de Holland (1287 - 1347) |