Sir Robert de Holand Knight

  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

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
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

• Background Information. ⁷⁴⁵
Sir Robert Holland, 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 Holland. Robert Holland 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 Thrustan Holland of Denton, who married Margaret de Shoreworth. His youngest son was Sir Thomas Holland, a soldier of great repute, who married Joan, the daughter of Edmund, Earl of Kent, and was summoned to Parliament as Lord Holland in 1353.

~The Book of the Radclyffes, p. 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 Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford, pp. 7-8

Robert married Elizabeth de Samlesbury, daughter of Sir William de Samlesbury Knight and Avina de Notton, in 1275 in Samlesbury, Lancashire, England ^141,160.^,767 (Elizabeth de Samlesbury was born in 1256 in Samlesbury, Lancashire, England.)