Robert Holand (abt. 1283 - 1328)

Born about 1283 in Upholland, Lancashire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Maud (Zouche) Holand — married before 1310 in England

Descendants

Died 15 Oct 1328 at about age 45 in BorehamWood, Essex, England

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Biography

Sir Robert Holand was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Birth

Robert de Holand, 1st Baron Holand was born about 1283. He was a son of Robert De Holand, Knight of Upholland (in Wigan), Lancashire, and by his wife Elizabeth Samlesbury, daughter and co-heiress of William De Samlesbury, was Knight of Samlesbury and Over Darwen, Lancashire. ^[1][2][3]

Note: Vivian shows Robert Holland as son of John son of Ingelram of Lincolnshire son of Henry.^[4]

Marriage and Children

Robert married Maud La Zouche the 2nd daughter and co-heiress, of Alan La Zouche and Eleanor Seagrave. She was born about 1290. ^[1][2] Their marriage took place in 1314 (7 Ed II).^[5][3]

Maud was contracted to marry Robert In about 1305-6.^[1][2]

In about 1305-06 her (Maud's) great aunt, Emeline Longespee, widow of Maurice Fitz Maurice, Knight, settled the reversion of Denford (bestowed?) Berkshire on Maud, being then betrothed to marry Robert de Holand.

Maud was aged 24 in 1314 upon the death of her father. She was then the wife of Robert de Holande. Probably in consequence of this alliance (see vol. iv, p. 236), the representation of her moiety of this (1299), the Barony of Zouche became united.^[6]

Robert & Maud de Holand had four sons and five daughters together:

• Robert De Holand^[1][2]He was son and heir, aged 16 at his father's death in 1328. This would place his birth about 1312. He was sum. to Parl. by writs on 25 Feb. 1241/42 (16 Ed. III) to 6 Oct 1372 (46 Ed. III). He distinguished himself in the French wars. He died s.p.m.s. on 16 Mar. 1372/3 (47 Ed. III). He had a daughter, Maud, who suceeded her grandfather as heiress in 1373 when aged 17. She married John Lovel, K.G.^[5]
• Thomas Holand, K.G.. Earl of Kent.^[1][2]THOMAS de Holand of Broughton, Buckinghamshire, He was born about 1314 and died in Normandy 26 or 28 Dec 1360, bur Stamford, Church of the Grey Friars. He served the king in various military expeditions in Flanders, Bayonne, and Brittany, and fought at the battle of Crécy 26 Aug 1346. Appointed Joint Lieutenant and Captain of Normandy 28 Oct 1359, jointly with Philippe de Navarre Comte de Longueville. Summoned to a Council 1353/4 as Lord Holand. He was one of the founder Knights of the Order of the Garter. He succeeded as Earl of Kent, de iure uxoris. He married before 1339, as her first husband, JOAN "the fair maid of Kent", daughter of EDMUND Earl of Kent & his wife Margaret Baroness Wake. During his absence in Prussia, Joan married bigamously to William Montagu Earl of Salisbury. In May 1347, Thomas petitioned Pope Clement VI who ordered Joan to return to Thomas on 17 Nov 1349. She returned to her first husband in [1349] after her second marriage was annulled. She succeeded her brother in 1352 as Countess of Kent, Baroness Woodstock and Baroness Wake, suo iure. She married thirdly to Edward "of Woodstock" Prince of Wales. Earl Thomas & his wife had five children.^[7]
• Otho Holand, K.G..^[1][2]
• Alan Holand^[1][2] (c. 1320 - 1339).
• Isabel (Holand) de Warenne^[1][2]
• Elizabeth (Holand) Fitz Roger^[1][2] (born c. 1320). She married Henry FitzRoger
• Margaret (Holand) La Warre. She married John De La Warre.^[1][2] (c. 1322 - 1349).
• Maud (Holland) Swinnerton^[1][2] Born about 1319. Married Thomas Swinnerton
• Eleanor (Holand) Darcy married John Darcy, Knt. 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith.^[1] (c. 1327 - 1341).

Disputed Children not named by Richardson

No verifiable sources have been found and they have been disconnected as children. Also, a note that had been included with the Lewis source below Lewis says "slips in two extra unsourced daughters, Mary and thrice-wed Joan." Mary is included in MedLands, but not Richardson.^[7]

• Joane Holland(c. 1305 - 1340). She was a sister of Robert & Married John Radcliffe.
• John Holland (born c. 1318).^[4] No sources for his existance.
• Mary de Holand, married John Tempest of Bracewell, Yorkshire. unable to verify this person.
• Jane Holland (born c. 1326).^{[citation needed]}
• Elizabeth Holland (born c. 1328).

Note. There are two spellings of this name, Holand and Holland. Richardson and GEC use the spelling Holand, from Holand in the County of Lancaster.

1310 - 1349 Timeline of Career

Robert De Holand]], Knight of Upholland, Samlesbury, and Lancashire, and (by right of his wife), of Leicestershire, Northhamptonshire, Warwickshire, etc., and was Justice of Chester, Constable of Beeston Castle. Robert de Holand subsequently became chief councillor of Earl Thomas, and thus grew in importance and wealth.

He was knighted by 1305.^[7]

1310: Robert de Holand founded a college of priests in the Chapel of St. Thomas at Upholland, later altered to a Priory of Benedictine monks.

He was created Lord Holland 29 Jul 1314.^[7]

1313: Robert de Holand took sides with Earl Thomas in various contentions with the king, being pardoned in 1313 for his complicity in the death of Edward II's favorite, Sir Peter de Gavaston, Earl of Cornwall.

He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July 1314 to 15 May 1321, ..... whereby he is held to have become Lord Holand (Holland).^[5]He was created Lord Holland 29 Jul 1314.^[7]

In 1322 he and his wife, Maud, settled the manors of Ridlington, Rutland, and Torrisholme, Lancashire, a moiety of the manors of Breightmet .... Lancashire on themselves for life, with successive remainders to their sons, Alan, Robert, and Thomas, and their respective heirs male.

He was heir in or bef. 1318 to his younger brother, WILLIAM DE HOLAND of Euxton, Lancashire.

• Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster

Robert was a favorite of Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster who he owed his advancement. Robert was the Earl's Secretary. ^[5]

He served him by suppressing the 1315 rising of Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea, and William de Bradshagh (Bradshaw) who banded together and launched an attack on the Liverpool Castle.

Earl Thomas was one of the leaders of the baronial opposition to Edward II of England. Edward was his cousin. Thomas Lancaster led two rebellions against Edward. The first, in 1310, resulted in Parliament imposing restraints on Edward II. From 1314 until 1318, :Thomas effectively governed England. He led a revolt in 1314. Thomas and his supporters were defeated. Thomas was found guilty of treason and executed in 1322.^[8]

Robert was deemed cowardly which led to his disfavor for failing to support his patron.

Adherents of Earl Thomas, captured Robert in Borehamwood, near Elstree, Hertfordshire, on 7 October 1328. On 15 October 1328 Robert was beheaded for his treachery.

Sir Robert de Holand of Upholland, Lancashire, 1270-7 Oct 1328, was buried at Grey Friars Church, Preston, Lancs.^[7]

• Inquisition Post Mortem, 2 Edward III

An Inquisition post mortem was held at York, in 20 October, 2 Edward III, lists his son Robert, aged 17 as the next heir.

At Derby an Inquiry was held on Thursday next before the Nativity of the Blessed Mary, 3 Edward III. It mentions the manors of Dalbury and Workesworth or Wyrkesworth. The manors, held with Maud his wife, who still survives, for their lives, of Henry earl of Lancaster, by service of a quarter of a knight’s fee, by fine levied in the king’s court. The remainder went to Alan, son of the said Robert, and the heirs male of his body, and to the right heirs of the said Robert. He held no lands, &c. of the king in chief on the day he died. Inquisitions were also held at Warwick, Leicester, and London about Robert's vast holdings.^[9]

Maud survived Robert for several years.

In 1329 Mary widow of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, had license to demise her interest in the Castle and manor of Thorpe Waterville, with the hamlets of Achurch and Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, to MAUD widow of ROBERT DE HOLAND.

In 1339 she (Maud) sued her son, Robert De Holand, in a plea that he should warrant to her half the manor of Bagworth, Leicestershire. Robert did not appear.

She (Maud) was a legatee in the 1347 will of John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, who bequeathed her four carriage horses.

Maud, Lady Holand, died 31 May 1349, and was buried at Brackley, Northamptonshire.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2011, by author. Salt Lake City, Utah. Holand #6 Maud La Zouche. Pages 392-395.
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. 3. Page 292.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} A history of the family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford in the County of Chester; with some account of the family of Holland of Upholland & Denton in the County of Lancaster, from materials collected by the late Edgar Swinton Holland, ed. by Wm. Fergusson Irvine. Published at Edinburgh, Priv. Print., Ballantyne Press, 1902. [1].
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Vivian, J. L. (John Lambrick), 1830-1896, and College of Arms (Great Britain). The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Herald's Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620. Exeter: For the author, by H. S. Eland, 1895, p. 475. "Holland of Weare."
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. Ed. by G.E.C. Vol. IV. pub London by George Bell & Sons. page 236.
6. ↑ The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. Ed. by G.E.C. Vol. VIII. pub London by George Bell & Sons. Page 222.[2],
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5} Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families.[3]
8. ↑ New World encyclopedia.[4].
9. ↑ J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 11', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 7, Edward III (London, 1909), pp. 108-126. British History Online [accessed 26 July 2021].

• ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. IV page 183
• Royal Ancestry by D. Richardson Vol. IV p. 431
• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. IV page 554-557
• Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V p. 477
• A history of the family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford in the County of Chester; with some account of the family of Holland of Upholland & Denton in the County of Lancaster, from materials collected by the late Edgar Swinton Holland, ed. by Wm. Fergusson Irvine. Published at Edinburgh, Priv. Print., Ballantyne Press, 1902. [5]. (Chart not readable in either online book I found)

• See also:
• Lewis: Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed October 2, 2015). Maud la Zouche citing:
  • The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, by Gary Boyd Roberts, p. 345
  • The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 79
  • Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry (Vol I, pp 253, 416-418; Vol II, pp 25, 392-394, 485-486, 580; Vol III, p 488), Plantagenet Ancestry (pp 126, 315, 398-399, 400, 418-420, 465, 637, 751-752), and Royal Ancestry (Vol I, p 431; Vol II, pp 387-388; Vol III, pp 291-294, 423-424, 459-460; Vol IV, pp 182-183, 551-552; Vol V, pp 312-314, 474-476.
• The Royal Ancestry Bible Royal Ancestors of 300 Colonial American Families by Michel L. Call (chart 27) ISBN 1-933194-22-7

• This link to Farrer refers to Roberts father, Robert, grandfather Thurstan and his sister Avina.
• Farrer, William. Final Concords of the County of Lancaster, The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire (printed for The Record Society. 1899)

Vol. XXXIX Page 139: "Edusa, wife of one Austyn living in Ireland, to whose son Adam Austyn de Ireland and to his heirs by his wife Avina, daughter of Sirt Robert de Holand (son and heir of Thurstan above-named), ..."

• Wikipedia
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• He is reportedly ancestral to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the Harrison family, Louis XVI, Winston Churchill, and others. He also has connections to the royal line of Medieval Scotland.(ex Wikipedia)
• Not a reliable source: The Howland Homestead (Society of the Descendants of Pilgrim John Howland, of the Ship Mayflower, Boston, 1911) No. 2, Page 4