Dear Newsgroup ~
A question was raised this week in another thread regarding Sir Robert
de Holand, 1st Lord Holand. As such, I thought I'd post an account of
this man and his wife, Maud la Zouche. The account below is an
updated and expanded version of a similar account of this couple
which was earlier published in my book, Plantagenet Ancestry, in
2004. My sources are cited in the same format as the industry
standard, the ODNB, which format is affectionately called "puddle of
references."
For interest's sake, the following is a list of the 17th Century New
World immigrants that descend from Sir Robert de Holand, and his wife,
Maud la Zouche:
Robert Abell, John Baynard, Dorothy Beresford, John Bevan, Es***
Beville, William Bladen, Elizabeth Bosvile, Thomas Bressey, Obadiah
Bruen, Stephen Bull, Charles Calvert, St. Leger Codd, Humphrey Davie,
Edward Digges, Rowland Ellis, Agatha, Alice, Eleanor, Jane & Martha
Eltonhead, John Fenwick, Henry Fleete, Thomas Gerard, Muriel Gurdon,
Mary Gye, Elizabeth & John Harleston, Warham Horsmanden, Anne
Humphrey, Mary Launce, Nathaniel Littleton, Thomas Lloyd, Gabriel,
Roger & Sarah Ludlow, Thomas Lunsford, Oliver Manwaring, John Nelson,
Philip & Thomas Nelson, Thomas Owsley, John Oxenbridge, Herbert
Pelham, William & Elizabeth Pole, Henry & William Randolph, George
Reade, Thomas Rudyard, Katherine Saint Leger, Richard Saltonstall,
Anthony Savage, Mary Johanna Somerset, John Stockman, James Taylor,
Samuel & William Torrey, John & Lawrence Wa****ngton, Olive Welby, John
West, Thomas Wingfield, Hawte Wyatt, Amy Wyllys.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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1. HENRY II, King of England, by a mistress, IDA DE TONY.
2. WILLIAM LONGESP=C9E, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, married ELA OF
SALISBURY.
3. STEPHEN LONGESP=C9E, Knt., of King=92s Sutton, Northampton****re,
married EMELINE DE RIDELISFORD.
4. ELA LONGESP=C9E, married ROGER LA ZOUCHE, Knt., of Ashby de la Zouch,
Leicester****re.
5. ALAN LA ZOUCHE, Knt., Lord Zouche, married ELEANOR DE SEGRAVE [see
ZOUCHE 6].
7. MAUD LA ZOUCHE, 2nd daughter and co-heiress, born about 1290 (aged
24 in 1314). She married before 1309/10 ROBERT DE HOLAND, Knt., of
Upholland and Orrell (both in Wigan), Hale (in Childwall), Nether
Kellet, Orrell, Samlesbury, and West Derby, Lanca****re, Yoxall,
Stafford****re, Broughton Parva (in Bierton), Buckingham****re, and, in
right of his wife, of Great Gaddesden, Hertford****re, King=92s Norton,
Leicester****re, Hawes (in Brackley) and Brackley, Northampton****re,
Great Dalby, Leicester****re, ****pton-on-Cherwell, Oxford****re,
Seckington, Warwick****re, etc., Justice of Chester, Sheriff of Flint,
Constable of Beeston Castle, son and heir of Robert de Holand, of
Upholland (in Wigan), Lanca****re, by Elizabeth, daughter and co-
heiress of William de Samlesbury. He was born about 1283. They had
four sons, Robert, Knt. [2nd Lord Holand], Thomas, Knt., K.G. [Earl of
Kent], Otes, K.G., and Alan, and five daughters, Isabel (mistress of
John de Warenne, Knt., 8th Earl of Surrey), Margaret, Maud, Elizabeth,
and Eleanor (wife of John Darcy, Knt., 2nd Lord Darcy of Knaith). In
1298 he attended Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, as a vallettus on the
Falkirk campaign. He subsequently became chief councillor of Earl
Thomas, and thus grew in im****tance and wealth. In 1304 he had a
grant of a weekly market and annual fair at Hale, Lanca****re. He had
license to crenellate his manor house of Upholland, Lanca****re in
1308. In 1310 he founded a college of priests in the Chapel of St.
Thomas at Upholland, later altered to a Priory of Benedictine monks.
He took sides with Earl Thomas in his various contentions with the
king, being pardoned in 1313 for his complicity in the death of Sir
Peter de Gavaston, Earl of Cornwall. In 1313 he acquired the manors
of Bagworth and Thornton, Leicester****re from John de Harcourt and
Robert de Willoughby. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July 1314
to 15 May 1321, by writs directed Roberto de Holand, whereby he is
held to have become Lord Holand. In 1314 he purchased the advowson of
Leigh, Lanca****re with one acre of land appurtenant thereto in
Westleigh, Lanca****re from Richard de Urmston for 50 marks sterling.
In 1315 he was granted both the castle and borough of Liverpool,
Lanca****re by Earl Thomas, but no charter was sealed, nor did the
tenants do homage. He had license to crenellate his manor house at
Bagworth, Leicester****re in 1318. In 1320 he was granted the castle
of Thorpe Waterville (in Thorpe Achurch), Northampton****re by Earl
Thomas. In Earl Thomas=92 final rising, in Feb. and March 1321/2,
Robert is said to have played a cowardly or treacherous part. He
fought at the Battle of Boroughbridge, surrendering to the King
afterwards. In March 1327, at the request of the queen, the king
granted to Maud wife of Robert de Holand the manor of Hawes and
Brackley, Northampton****re, to the value of =A350, the moiety of the
manor of Gaddesden, Hertford****re to the value of =A310, and a third
part of the manor of Sheepshead, Leicester****re to the value of 100s.,
which lands were taken into the late king=92s hands for various reasons,
for the sup****t of herself and her children until other provisions be
made for them. On the accession of King Edward III, Robert petitioned
for the restitution of his lands, which petition was granted 23 Dec.
1327. SIR ROBERT DE HOLAND, 1st Lord Holand, was captured by some
adherents of his former patron, Earl Thomas, in Boreham Wood, Elstree,
Hertford****re 7 Oct. 1328, who cut off his head for his treachery.
His body was buried at Grey Friars, Preston, Lanca****re. He died
testate. In Nov. 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,
Northampton****re, to Maud widow of Robert de Holand, which property
came into the late king=92s hands upon the submission of the said Robert
to the said king after being charged with adhering to the king=92s
enemies, and which was granted by the king to the said Mary and Aymer,
in fee tail. In 1329 his widow, Maud, and William la Zouche, of
Harringworth, acknowledged that they owed =A31,000 to Mary de Saint-Pol,
Countess of Pembroke, to be levied, in default of payment, of their
lands and chattels in Northampton****re; Maud de Holand and Ralph
Basset, of Drayton, likewise acknowledged they owed the same sum to
Countess Mary, to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and
chattels in Northampton****re. In return Countess Mary agreed to
cancel the two recognizances if the parties pay to her in her wardrobe
at London 900 marks and =A3400 at dates specified, and that upon payment
of the first installment, she further agreed to let Maud have the
estate she has for life of the late king=92s demise of the castle of
Thorpe Waterville (in Thorpe Achurch), Northampton****re, and its
members of Achurch and Aldwinkle, and that she would purchase the
king=92s charter of license. Maud in return agreed to pay to the
countess the costs of the winter-sowing, and of the labors about it
upon her entry into the castle, and also of the Lent-sowing, if the
Countess have sewn it. In 1331 his widow, Maud, was co-heiress to her
great-aunt, Emeline Longesp=E9e, widow of Maurice Fitz Maurice, Knt., by
which she inherited the manors of King=92s Sutton, Northampton****re and
Wanborough, Wilt****re. In 1332 Maud complained that John de Charnels,
Robert de Sothewold, and others carried away her goods, as well as 600
charters, 200 bonds, 100 chirographs and tallies and divers muniments
at Thorpe Waterville, Northampton****re, and assaulted her servants
there. In October 1334 she had license to alienate in mortmain 14
marks of rent in Steeple Lavington, Wilt****re to the Keeper of the
Chapel of St. Katherine, Wanborough, Wilt****re, to find two chaplains
to celebrate divine service daily in the chapel for the souls of her
and her late husband, Robert, as she should appoint. In August 1335
(and again in March 1336), Maud going on pilgrimage to Santiago, she
had letters nominating Master John de Blebury and Gervase de Wilford
her attorneys in England for one year. In Michaelmas term 1339 she
sued her son, Robert de Holand, in a plea that he should warrant to
her half the manor of Bagworth, Leicester****re which William, son of
William de Harecourt claimed against her. Robert did not appear, and
her attorney was told she must proceed with the suit at her own
peril. She presented to the church of Dalbury, Derby****re in 1349.
Maud died 31 May 1349, and was buried at Brackley, Northampton****re.
References:
Bridges, Hist. & Antiq. of Northampton****re 2 (1791): 364=96365. Shaw,
Hist. & Antiq. of Stafford****re 1 (1798): 95=9697. Nichols, Hist. &
Antiq. of Leicester****re 3(1) (1800): 240=96241. Clutterbuck, Hist. &
Antiq. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longesp=E9e-Zouch pedigree). Baker,
Hist. & Antiq. of Northampton 1 (1822=961830): 563, 692=96694. Curtis A
Topog. His. of the County of Leicester (1831): 39. Coll. Top. & Gen.,
2 (1835): 304=96305. Beltz, Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the
Garter (1841): cxlix=96cl. St. George, Lennard & Vincent, Vis. of Devon
1620 (H.S.P. 6) (1872): 345=96347 (Holland pedigree: =93Sir Robert Holland
Kt. Lord Holland =3D Mawde 2 d. of Allaine Zouche=94) (Holand arms: Azure,
sem=E9e of fleurs-de-lys argent, a lion rampant of the same). Harvey,
The Hist. & Antiqs. of the Hundred of Willey (1872=968): opp. 146
(Quincy pedigree). Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derby****re 3 (1877):
108=96109. Lanca****re & Che****re Hist. & Gen. Notes 2 (1881): 184=96185.
Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages (1883): 278=96
279 (sub Holand). Colls. Hist. Staffs., 11 (1890): 90=96100. C.P.R.
1327=961330 (1891): 59, 455. C.P.R. 1330=961334 (1893): 285. C.P.R.
1334=
=96
1338 (1895): 33, 163, 235. C.C.R. 1327=961330 (1896): 581=96582.
Genealogist, n.s. 13 (1896): 34. Farrer, Lanca****re Inquests,
Extents, & Feudal Aids 1205=961307 1 (Lancs. & Che****re Rec. Soc. 48)
(1903): 322=96323; 1310=961333 2 (Lancs. & Che****re Rec. Soc. 54) (1907):
219=96220. C.P.R. 1345=961348 (1903): 127. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum
1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 157, 328, 331. VCH Lancaster 3
(1907): 14, 16, 118=96119, 142=96144, 147, 296, 413=96421; 4 (1911):
4=9636,=
82, 92=9693, 98, 148=96150; 5 (1911): 267, 269; 6 (1911): 303=96304; 8
(1914): 68. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201=96203. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908):
323=96324 (Holand arms: Azure powdered with fleurs-de-lis a lion
argent). Cal. IPMs 7 (1909): 267; 9 (1916): 178=96180; 12 (1938): 169=96
170. Feet of Fines for York****re 1327=961347 (York****re Arch. Soc.
Recs. 42) (1910): 35=9636. C.P. 4 (1916): 58=9661 (sub Darcy), 144 (sub
De La Warr); 6 (1926): 528=96531 (sub Holand). VCH Berk****re 4 (1924):
158=96159. Moor, Knights of Edward I, 2 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 233=96234.
VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 198=96200. Year Books of Edward II 23 (Selden
Soc. 65) (1950): 132=96134. Hatton, Book of Seals (1950): 15. Paget
Baronage of England (1957) 289: 1; 580: 4. Sanders, English Baronies
(1960): 61=9662. VCH Leicester****re 5 (1964): 256=96264. VCH Oxford 8
(1964): 60; 12 (1990): 257. Chancery Miscellanea Vol. III (List &
Index Soc. 26) (1967): 280. VCH Wilt****re 9 (1970): 176; 10 (1975):
87=9688. English Hist. Rev. 86 (1971): 449=96472. Sutherland, Eyre of
Northampton****re 2 (Selden Soc. 98) (1983): 575=96577, 602. Stevenso,n
Edington Cartulary (Wilt****re Rec. Soc. 42) (1987): 173. Year Books
of Edward II 27 (Selden Soc. 104) (1988): 34=9636. Austin, Ancient
Fams. in the British Isles (1991): 66=9684. Hicks, Who=92s Who in Late
Medieval England (1991): 51=9652 (biog. of Sir Robert Holand: =93=85 the
omnicompetent supervisor of Lancaster=92s affairs=94). Morrison, Women
Pilgrims in Late Medieval England (2000): 158.
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