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NameSir Robert de Holand Lord Holand 
[60, Holand article, Vol VI, pp.528-531], [60, Warre article, Vol IV, p. 144], [74, No 2640, p. 83], [56, Hants of 1530, '75 & 1622-34, pub Harleian 1913, West p. 58]
[60, Holand article, Vol VI, pp.528-531], [60, Warre article, Vol IV, p. 144], [74, No 2640, p. 83], [56, Hants of 1530, '75 & 1622-34, pub Harleian 1913, West p. 58]Birthca 1270
Death7 Oct 1328, Beheaded in Borehamwood, ne Elstree, Herts
BurialGrey Friars Ch, Preston, Lancs
General1st baron: 29 Jul 1314. Of Upholland, Lancs & Yoxall, Staffs. Fought against King & beheaded.
FatherSir Robert de Holand (-ca1300)
MotherElizabeth de Samlesbury (->1311)
Notes for Sir Robert de Holand Lord Holand
In Wrottesley’s “Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls”, p. 135, it shows that this Robert had an elder son Alan who dsp.
Arms Generally notes for Sir Robert de Holand Lord Holand
Azure fleurette, a leopard rampant argent. - CP
Holand Article, CP vol VI, p. 528, note (l) quoting William Salt Society for 1915, p. 283 (and see also p. 287).
Holand Article, CP vol VI, p. 528, note (l) quoting William Salt Society for 1915, p. 283 (and see also p. 287).
Armorial Blazon notes for Sir Robert de Holand Lord Holand
DoBA: Azure semy of fleurs de lis Argent lion Argent
OR:
Azure fleurette, a leopard rampant argent.
OR:
Azure fleurette, a leopard rampant argent.
Blazon source notes for Sir Robert de Holand Lord Holand
Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 2, p.151
DNB Main notes for Sir Robert de Holand Lord Holand
Holland, Sir Robert c.1283-1328
Name: Holland, Sir Robert
Dates: c.1283-1328
Active Date: 1323
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Land Ownership
Occupation: Baron
Place of
Death: Borehamwood, near Elstree, in Hertfordshire
Spouse: Maud, one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Alan la Zouche
Sources: J. R. Maddicott, ‘Thomas of Lancaster and Sir Robert Holland:...
Contributor: J. R. Maddicott
Article
Holland, Sir Robert c.1283-1328, baron, was the son of Sir Robert Holland of Upholland, Lancashire, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Samlesbury of Samlesbury, Lancashire. Robert Holland senior held moderately extensive estates in his county and played an active part in its government, but his son’s career was to be altogether more exceptional. Through his friendship with Thomas, Earl of Lancaster [q.v.], Edward II’s cousin and the most powerful of his earls, he rose from the middle ranks of the gentry into the upper ranks of the baronage. Their connection probably began in 1298, when Holland served Lancaster as his vallettus on the Falkirk campaign. By 1305 he had been knighted.
From 1300, if not before, he began to receive a steady stream of lands from Lancaster, amounting eventually to some twenty-five manors worth perhaps £550 p.a. Lancaster was also responsible for his marriage, which took place about 1308 and led to still greater gains. His wife was Maud, one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Alan la Zouche, a prominent Leicestershire magnate, who brought to her husband, on Zouche’s death in 1314, the greater part of her father’s lands, worth nearly £720 a year. It was probably in consequence of this great accession of landed wealth that Holland was summoned to Parliament for the first time in July 1314. At the height of his career his whole estate, including his patrimony, was probably worth rather more than £1,300 a year.
In return for all this Holland became Lancaster’s chief agent and confidant. ‘He truste more oppon him than oppon eny man alyve,’ says the Brut chronicle. Chronicles and records suggest that he exercised a general supervision over all Lancaster’s affairs: directing his estate officials, receiving dubiously acquired lands to which the earl wished to bar legal claims, acting as Lancaster’s intermediary with the king, and supporting him in his political and military ventures. He joined in the pursuit of Piers Gaveston [q.v.] in 1312 and served Lancaster in Scotland in 1318. He also served the king, acting for three periods as justice of Chester and holding the usual range of local commissions. It was to the king that Holland turned during the great crisis of 1321-2, when Lancaster rebelled against Edward. In early March 1322, when Lancaster was retreating through the north midlands before the royal army, Holland crossed over to Edward. His treachery cost Lancaster the campaign and ultimately his life, and Holland his reputation and his freedom.
For the next five years he remained the king’s captive, and only in December 1327, a year after the old reign had ended in a revolution, did Edward III order his release and the return of his lands. His restoration was short-lived. On 15 October 1328 he was murdered in Borehamwood, near Elstree, in Hertfordshire, probably by a group of Lancastrian partisans and possibly with the connivance of Henry, Earl of Lancaster [q.v.], Thomas’s brother. The bulk of his lands descended to his eldest son, another Robert, but it was his second son, Sir Thomas Holland, first Earl of Kent [q.v.], who refounded the family’s fortunes, winning fame in the French war, marrying Joan of Kent, granddaughter of Edward I, and acquiring the earldom of Kent in right of his wife.
Holland’s linkage with the most powerful noble of his generation, and the scale of his consequent enrichment, made his career in some respects sui generis. In another way, however, it typified one of the main routes to social advancement in the middle ages: through service in the following of a great man.
Sources
J. R. Maddicott, ‘Thomas of Lancaster and Sir Robert Holland: a Study in Noble Patronage’, English Historical Review, vol. lxxxvi, 1971.
Contributor: J. R. Maddicott
published 1993
Name: Holland, Sir Robert
Dates: c.1283-1328
Active Date: 1323
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Land Ownership
Occupation: Baron
Place of
Death: Borehamwood, near Elstree, in Hertfordshire
Spouse: Maud, one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Alan la Zouche
Sources: J. R. Maddicott, ‘Thomas of Lancaster and Sir Robert Holland:...
Contributor: J. R. Maddicott
Article
Holland, Sir Robert c.1283-1328, baron, was the son of Sir Robert Holland of Upholland, Lancashire, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Samlesbury of Samlesbury, Lancashire. Robert Holland senior held moderately extensive estates in his county and played an active part in its government, but his son’s career was to be altogether more exceptional. Through his friendship with Thomas, Earl of Lancaster [q.v.], Edward II’s cousin and the most powerful of his earls, he rose from the middle ranks of the gentry into the upper ranks of the baronage. Their connection probably began in 1298, when Holland served Lancaster as his vallettus on the Falkirk campaign. By 1305 he had been knighted.
From 1300, if not before, he began to receive a steady stream of lands from Lancaster, amounting eventually to some twenty-five manors worth perhaps £550 p.a. Lancaster was also responsible for his marriage, which took place about 1308 and led to still greater gains. His wife was Maud, one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Alan la Zouche, a prominent Leicestershire magnate, who brought to her husband, on Zouche’s death in 1314, the greater part of her father’s lands, worth nearly £720 a year. It was probably in consequence of this great accession of landed wealth that Holland was summoned to Parliament for the first time in July 1314. At the height of his career his whole estate, including his patrimony, was probably worth rather more than £1,300 a year.
In return for all this Holland became Lancaster’s chief agent and confidant. ‘He truste more oppon him than oppon eny man alyve,’ says the Brut chronicle. Chronicles and records suggest that he exercised a general supervision over all Lancaster’s affairs: directing his estate officials, receiving dubiously acquired lands to which the earl wished to bar legal claims, acting as Lancaster’s intermediary with the king, and supporting him in his political and military ventures. He joined in the pursuit of Piers Gaveston [q.v.] in 1312 and served Lancaster in Scotland in 1318. He also served the king, acting for three periods as justice of Chester and holding the usual range of local commissions. It was to the king that Holland turned during the great crisis of 1321-2, when Lancaster rebelled against Edward. In early March 1322, when Lancaster was retreating through the north midlands before the royal army, Holland crossed over to Edward. His treachery cost Lancaster the campaign and ultimately his life, and Holland his reputation and his freedom.
For the next five years he remained the king’s captive, and only in December 1327, a year after the old reign had ended in a revolution, did Edward III order his release and the return of his lands. His restoration was short-lived. On 15 October 1328 he was murdered in Borehamwood, near Elstree, in Hertfordshire, probably by a group of Lancastrian partisans and possibly with the connivance of Henry, Earl of Lancaster [q.v.], Thomas’s brother. The bulk of his lands descended to his eldest son, another Robert, but it was his second son, Sir Thomas Holland, first Earl of Kent [q.v.], who refounded the family’s fortunes, winning fame in the French war, marrying Joan of Kent, granddaughter of Edward I, and acquiring the earldom of Kent in right of his wife.
Holland’s linkage with the most powerful noble of his generation, and the scale of his consequent enrichment, made his career in some respects sui generis. In another way, however, it typified one of the main routes to social advancement in the middle ages: through service in the following of a great man.
Sources
J. R. Maddicott, ‘Thomas of Lancaster and Sir Robert Holland: a Study in Noble Patronage’, English Historical Review, vol. lxxxvi, 1971.
Contributor: J. R. Maddicott
published 1993