Margaret de Holand

  General Notes:

The Derby Household Books, Notes on p. 152 (Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Vol. XXXI ), the author, William Ffarington, mentions that he came to a different conclusion than Mr. Hulton's conclusion in the Whalley Cartulary, Vol. IV, pp 978-979 (Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Vol. XX ) about the Pedigree of Margaret de Holland called the "sister of Sir Robert de Holland" in the Whalley Cartulary. He says his pedigree is the result of his pedigree comes from examination of all the Holland pedigrees and other evidences. The pedigree follows:

Robert de Holland
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Thurstan de Holand = Daughter and heiress of Adam de Kellet
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Sir Robert de Holland = Elizabeth, daughter of William de Samlesbury
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Margaret de Holland = Sir John de Blakeburne, Lord of Wiswall.

Sir Robert de Holand, who was behead is given as the brother of Margaret, wife of Sir John de Blackburne. ^977,978

  Information about this person:

• Background Information: Margaret was living 10 Sep 1324. ⁸²⁸
"Ellen de Torbock, inq. a. q. d.
"[18 Edw. II, No. 51.]

"WRIT dated at Westminster, 3 May 17th year (1324), directed to John de Lancastre and William de Tatham.

"Inquest taken at Penwortham, before William de Tatham and John Lancastre, on Monday next after the feast of the nativity of B.V.M., 18 Edward II (10 Sep 1324), by the oath of Adam de Chernok, Alan de Meys, Robert de Heskyn, Thomas de Adlinton, william son of Robert de Worthington, William de Hoghwik, Adam de Hoghwik, Roger le Despencer, Thomas de Notesch(aw), John Busshell, John de Clayton, and William le Despencer, who say that Ellen de Torbok holds tenements in Whalshequithull [Welch Whittle] of the lord of Leylondeschire, that is to say, dame Margaret Banastre, formerly the wife of Adam Banastre, and the said Margaret hold them of the king in chief; Ellen owes no suit at the king's court of Penwortham for the tenements, because in the time of Henry de Lascy, late earl of Lyncoln, while he was lord of the fee of Penwortham, his then steward compelled Ellen to do suit at the court of Penwortham, and Ellen made fine with the steward to be respited from it by half a mark one year and 5s in another, at the will of the steward; and whilst Thomas, earl of Lancaster, was lord of the fee of Penwortham, as of the right of Alice his wife, his steward made coercion and Ellen made fine as aforesaid; the earls were seised of the suit in no manner."

~Lancashire Inquests, Extents, and Feudal Aids, Part II, A.D. 1310 - A.D. 1333

• Background Information. ⁹⁷⁷
Margaret was the daughter of Sir Robert de Holand, also called the "sister of Sir Robert de Holand" in the text of the Whalley Cartulary. She married Sir John de Blackburne, Lord of Wiswall, Lanchashire. They had three daughters who were coheiresses of both of their father and mother. Margaret survived her first husband and married Sir Adam Banister (who was beheaded 9 Edward II), by whom she had a daughter, Katherine, sole heiress of her father, and fourth daughter and coheiress of her mother. This Katherine Banister, who was the nurse to Phillippa, Queen of Edward III, married Sir John de Harrington of Farleton.

~ The Derby Household Books, p. 152

Margaret married Sir John de Blackburne Knight, son of Adam de Blackburne and Alicia, before 1290 ^738,772,827.^,977 (Sir John de Blackburne Knight was born in Wiswall, Whalley, Lancashire, England and died in Blackburn, Lancashire, England.)

Margaret next married Sir Adam Banastre Knight, son of Thomas Banastre and Joan de Singleton.⁹⁷⁷ (Sir Adam Banastre Knight was born in 1285 in Bretherton, Chorley, Lancashire, England and died in 1314-1315 in Beheaded in Duxbury, England ¹⁶⁰.)