Sir
Robert
Belknap
Born about in Kent, England
Son of John Belknap
and Alice (UNKNOWN) Belknap
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Juliana (Darset) Belknap
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Joanna (Belknap) Stonore, Juliana Belknap, Robert Belknap, Thomas Belknap and Hamon Belknap
Died
at about age 71
in England
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Sep 2010
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Biography
Robert Belknap[1] was born about or before 1330, possibly in Kent or Wiltshire, England, the son of John Belknap and his wife Alice.
Family 1
- Amy (possibly daughter of William de Say, knight), who died before 1373[2]
Family 2
- Juliana Darset[3] (died 1414), daughter of John Darset (or Darsett/Dorsett) and Elizabeth Phelipp, daughter of Thomas Phelipp of Baldock, Hertfordshire. [4]
Children
- Thomas Belknap (died before 1414)
- John Belknap (died before 1414)
- Joan or Joanna Belknap (died before 1419), married (1) Ralph de Stonor (died 13 November 1394 accompanying King Richard II of England while en route to Ireland) and (2) Sir Edmund Hampden (died before 29 April 1420), Sheriff and Escheator of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
- Sir Hamon Belknap (died before 18 March 1428/1429), Treasurer of Normandy, married Joan Boteler, daughter of Thomas Boteler, 4th Baron Sudeley.
- Juliana Belknap (died after 1417), married (1) Robert de Avenel and (2) Nicholas Kymbell
Robert Belknap is the great grandfather of Sir Edward Belknap, Privy Councillor to Henry VII and Henry VIII, through Sir Hamon Belknap's son Sir Henry Belknap (died 20 June 1488).
He served as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of England commencing in 1377 until his banishment to Ireland in 1388 by King Richard II.
On June 2, 1381, the chief justice of the common pleas, Sir Robert Belknap, arrived in Brentwood to summon jurors to indict the rebels (the Peasant's Revolt). However, the commons refused and made him take an oath not to attempt such a task again[5][6]
Sources
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 232.
- ↑ Lyte, H. C. Maxwell, Sir., (1896). Calendar of the Close rolls preserved in the Public record office. 1365/6, 39th yr of Edward III. (Vol. 12 p.206.), Memorandum of acknowledgment of the foregoing charter and writing in the chancery at London, 22 December. Great Britain: Public Record Office. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 11 Sept 2021.
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 140-141.
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 89.
- ↑ http://www.sirrobertbelknap.org/
- ↑ Edward Foss, The Judges of England; with sketches of their lives (1851), p. 31. Transcribed at Brent J. Belnap's website for the Belknap family.
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Categories: Chief Justices of the Common Pleas
Their children were born between 1369 and c1380/9 the chronological order appears to be, Thomas born 1369, Juliana born 1370, Joanna born c1374, Robert born c1375 - c1379, Hamon born c1380 - c1389 died 4.1.1429, the birth dates for Robert/Hamon vary in the primary sources. It would appear all the children were born in Kent, England and there is no consensus on the death dates of the first four children.
Sources - http://www.teachergenealogist007.com/search?q=Hamon+belknap
http://www.belnapfamily.org/sirrobertbelknap.htm fully comprehensive biography.
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwc2802.htm#72800C2 for reference to other sources.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1981/images/31205_Vol22-00085?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=f45edbb688f1d5c9f45e8fe42e30fac0&usePUB=true&_phsrc=phD39127&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=79801 Dictionary of National Biography.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1981/images/31205_Vol2-00025?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=ad89cb0a7837e6827936af7ad6f7dfdc&usePUB=true&_phsrc=phD39125&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=8633 Dictionary of National Biography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bealknap for reference to other sources.
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