1901512.
Sir Robert Belknap & 1901513. Juliane Darset
~1325, Robert de
Bealknap born in England, s/o 3803024.
John Belknap & 3803025. Alice ?.
1/24/1327, Edward
III, age 14, succeeded Edward II as King of England.
1341, Juliane born
in Essex, England, d/o 3803026. John
Darset & 3803027. Elizabeth Phelip.
6/1351, Robert a
clerk of the diocese of Salisbury, Wiltshire.
5/8/1353, Robert on
a commission to survey the abbey of Battle.
1353, Robert
succeeded William de Pagham as stewart of Battle Abbey.
3/26/1359, Robert with
others received a letter from the King to prepare Battle Abbey for a French
invasion.
1361, Robert
Belknap and Robert de Herle had to hear alleged trespasses and felonies.
5/18/1362, Robert
appointed a Justice of the Peace in co. Kent.
1364, Robert
witnesses a quitclaim to the King in Dartford by John Winchester of Southflete
in Kent. (S) CCRs.
1365, Robert,
creditor to John Kentays of Brabourne in Kent who owed him £40.
[––Robert & Amy Aunger––]
By 1365, Robert
married Amy.
12/2/1365, William
de Say grants to Robert de Belknap and Amy his wife, the manor of Sharsted and
all he owns in the town of Chetham and Gillingham in Kent. (S) CCRs.
7/7/1366, Robert
and Amy his wife were pardoned for
acquiring for life from the Abbot and Convent of Battle the manor of Kingswode,
held in chief. (S) CPRs.
10/12/1366, Robert
Bealknap a justice of oyer and terminer in co. Kent. (S) CPRs.
1367, Robert, a Serjeant
at law receiving £20
annually, and the same for his office as Justice of assize.
1369, Grant ... by
Thomas Travers to Robert and Amy, ..., of the reversion of all his lands, ...
in Ditton and East Malling in Kent. (S) CCRs.
8/13/1369, Joan,
Lady Cobham, in her will legated to Robert Belknappe a horn made from a
Griffin’s hoof with a silver gilt cover with the arms of Lord Cobham, and the
Lord Berkeley. He also got £20
sterling.
[––Robert & Juliane––]
1369-70, Robert
married Juliane.
1370, Robert on a
commission de walliis and fossatis in Sussex.
1371, Robert
Beleknappe and John Wroth jun. granting to Adam Fraunceys of London the manor
of Edelmeton.
3/8/1371, Robert
Bealknap, steward of the king's lands in the county of Kent. (S) CFRs.
1/28/1372, Juliane inherited
the manor of La Lebury, Essex as kin of Thomas Phelip and Elizabeth his wife; Juliane
d/o Elizabeth, d/o Thomas and Elizabeth. The escheator was ordered to give
seisin and took the homage of Robert Belknap. (S) CFRs.
1373, The manor of
Wilting in Baldslow Hundred was granted to Robert Belknap and Juliane his wife by
Alexander de Goldingham.
1374, Robert a councilor
for John of Gaunt.
7/15/1374, Indenture
made at London, between Sir Nicholas de Lovayne, Sir Aubrey de Veer, …, Robert
Belknap, John Colpeper and … of the one part and Thomas de Charleton …,
confirmation and quitclaim to the first parties, in their possession being,
their heirs and assigns, of the manors of Penshurst etc. … (S) CCRs.
10/8/1375, Robert
became a Justice of the Common Pleas.
1375, Robert
knighted.
11/5/1375, Elizabeth,
widow of Waresius de Valoignes, kt., quitclaimed to John Cobham, kt., Robert
Belknap, kt., Nicholas Carreu and John Lord of Fremingham.
4/1376, The
following are assigned triers of petitions from England … Sir Robert Belknap …
(S) Parliament Rolls, 1376.
4/20/1376, The king
granted the wardship and marriage of Joan de Leyhamme, heiress of her brother
John, who died a minor, to Robert de Bealknap. (S) CCRs.
1377, “Petitioners:
Liege people of the county of Devon … Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon; Robert
Belknap …” (S) UKNA.
6/21/1377, Richard
II, age 10, succeeded Edward III as King of England.
6/26/1377, Robert
appointed Chief Justice of the Common Bench.
8/30/1380, Robert
on a commission of peace in the town of Royston.
10/30/1380, Nicholas
Bonde knight gives the manor of Sentlynge co. Kent by charter to Robert and
Juliana for life with remainder to Thomas their son. (S) CCRs, 11/24/1401.
6/2/1381, Robert,
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, commissioned to seek out and punish rioters
in Fobbing and Corringham, revolting against a poll tax, attacked in him and
his clerks in Brentwood, Essex; and Robert was captured. [Robert escaped, but
others were killed.] (S) The Great Revolt of 1381, Oman, 1906, P33.
6/15/1381, Robert
Belknap, Robert Knolles and 2 other appointed City Knights in London with full
powers to investigate the guilty and punish them.
1382, Robert
Bealknapp, kt. and Juliane his wife petitioned from Gregory Rokels the manor of
Seintling in St. Mary Cray which they quitclaimed to him for 200 marks. (S)
Feet of Fines, Kent.
1383, The manor of
St. Mary Cray in Kent became the property of Robert [held by Juliana after his
attainder.]
1384, “Petitioners:
John de Beauchamp, knight … Robert Bealknap (Belknap), Chief Justice of the
Common Bench; …” (S) UKNA.
1384, Robert
Belknap kt. and Julian his wife and ...; manor of Knelle ... - to John for life
..., remainder to Robert and Julian and heirs of their bodies, ... (S) Sussex
Fines.
1385, Robert and
poet Geoffrey Chaucer appointed justices of the peace for Kent.
1385, Robert
secured the revision of Knelle manor [previously acquired from William de
Welles] from Thomas Lyvet.
12/18/1385, Robert Bealknap
chief justice of the Bench. (S) CCRs. [Robert Tresilian had been the chief
justice in September when the justices were summoned to parliament. (S) CCRs.]
11/19/1386, the
Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Earl of Warwick, Earl of Derby,
and Duke of Norfolk [the Lords Appellant] formed a commission to govern England
for one year.
4/20/1387, William
bishop of Winchester, Thomas bishop of Ely, Robert Bealknap, …, Edward
Dalyngrige, … knights, … to Richard earl of Arundell and Surrey. Indenture …
for 40 years … of the castle, manors,
lands etc. of Chirke and Chirkeslonde … (S) CCRs.
8/25/1387, at
Nottingham, Robert and other judges signed a document that condemned the
commission as contrary to the king’s will, arguing that the king alone should
choose the business of Parliament and that he could dissolve it at will.
11/17/1387, King
Richard promised to arrest Robert and other “royal favorites”. [But at the same
time he was fielding an army.]
12/30/1387, After
the defeat of Earl de Vere at Radcot Bridge, King Richard agreed to a purge of
the royal household and had all the judges who had signed the Nottingham
Declaration, including Robert, removed from the bench.
2/1388, at the
“Merciless Parliament”, Robert, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and others
declared guilty of high treason by the House of Peers and sent to the Tower.
4/14/1388, “Robert
Bealknap, Roger Fulthorp, John Cary, John Holt, William Burgh and John Lokton
state that they have long been in prison, and all their lands and tenements
have been seized into the king's hands, so that they nothing on which to live.
They ask the king to ordain for their sustenance.” (S) UKNA.
8/20/1388, at
Nottingham castle, in the presence of King Richard, Robert Bealknap, Chief
Justice of the Common Bench and others were interrogated. (S) English
Historical Docments, V4, P153.
1388-89, On
intervention of Queen Anne and William de Courtenay, Robert’s death sentence
commuted to banishment. Robert was sent to Ireland.
[––Juliane, Robert banished––]
10/11/1389, Mandate
to the treasurer and the chamberlains to pay to Juliane, wife of Robert
Belknap, the arrears since of £40
annually granted him for life by the King. (S) CCRs.
2/20/1390, “Juliana,
wife of Robert de Beleknapp, states that her husband has lost all his
possessions and been banished, leaving her and 5 children in England, and that
he has nothing to live on except an annuity of £40 from his former lands …” (S)
UKNA. [Juliana recovered Knelle manor.]
5/2/1392, Julianna
and her daughter Juliana’s interests are specified in a land grant. (S) CPRs.
[––Robert returned––]
1397, Robert
allowed to return from banishment, but his attainder was not reversed.
5/21/1398, Some of
Robert’s lands returned: The king considered him as a martyr
to his interest, granted him several of his estates again among others his
moiety of Lidsing which he then gave to the Priory of St. Andrew in Rochester
for 1 monk to celebrate mass in the Cathedral for ever for the souls of
himself, and for the souls of his father John Belknap and his mother Alice. (S)
Catalogue of Manuscripts of the Society of the Inner Temple. (S) Villare Cantianum, Philipot, 1776,
P168.
1/22/1399, To the
sheriff of Essex. Order to make restitution and give Robert Bealknap knight and
Juliana his wife livery against Andrew Neuport esquire of 100 acres of land in
Elmedoun which were of the said Robert and Juliana in her right … (S) CCRs.
1/19/1401, Robert,
knt. of Knelle in Beckley, Sussex; Seyntlynge in St. Mary, Kent died; buried in
Rochester cathedral.
[––Juliane––]
11/24/1401,
Petition of Juliana wife of Robert Bealknapp knight … [see 10/30/1380] … the said Robert died 19 January last … praying
the king to revoke those letters and put her again in possession thereof with
the issues and profits since her husband's death … (S) CCRs.
1401, Juliane
successfully contested the right to Knelle manor against a claim of Thomas
Beaufort.
Juliane married 2nd
John Marshall.
1407, Richard Coble
… sued John Marchall and Julian, formerly the wife of Robert Belknap, Kt.
1411-12, Juliane on
the subsidy rolls as Lady of Knell, holdings worth £20 yearly.
1413, Juliane died,
her husbands lands escheated to the crown. “Belknap, Julia who was the wife of
Richard, kt: Kent.” (S) UKNA, IPM.
7/22/1414, Juliane
died. [Son Hamon, age 24, given seisin of her properties.]
(S) Magna Carta
Ancestry, P796. (S) The Bromley Record, 1865, P280. (S) CPRs.
Children of Robert and Juliane:
i. Juliana Belknap,
born ~1370 in England.
Juliana married to Robert Avenel.
12/1/1384, John of
Buckingham, bishop of Lincoln, had granted in tail to Robert son of John Avenel
and Juliana, daughter of Robert de Belknap, failing issue to Robert and Juliane
Belknap and their heirs.
1387, Robert died.
[No children.]
Juliana married 2nd
Nicholas Kymbell. (S) Hist. of Norfolk, V9, 1808, Salthouse.
5/2/1392, The
manors, land etc. of the 1384 grant were granted to several persons saving the
interests of Juliana the daughter and Juliana the mother.
ii. Hamon Belknap (950756),
born 1389 in England.
iii. Thomas Belknap,
Born ? in England.
