Family:Whitney, Robert (c1379-1441)
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Sir Robert Whitney (Robert, Robert, Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), son of Robert Whitney,[1] was born about 1379, Whitney, Herefordshire,[2] and died 12 Mar 1441, Whitney, Herefordshire.[3]
He married Joan or Wentliana/Wenllian Oldcastle, daughter of Sir Thomas Oldcastle.[4]
- The name of "Robertus Whiteney, Chivaler," was returned in the list of gentry, &c., in this county, made by commissioners 12 Henry VI [1433-1434].[5]
He was of Whitney, etc., Knight. Granted Castle of Clifford and Lordships of Clifford and Glasbury by Henry IV., in 1404, on account of services of his father. Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1413, 1428, and 1433, and 1437. Member of Parliament in 1416 and 1422. Fought in French War under Henry V. Captain of Castle and Town of Vire in 1420. Named as one of the 5 knights in Herefordshire in 1433. Died March 12, 1441.[6]
- Patent Roll 5 Henry IV., 1st Part, No. 372 (1404)[7]
- The King to all to whom, etc., greeting. Know ye that Since the father of Robert Whitney esquire and his Uncle and a great part of his relatives have been killed in Our service at the capture of Edmund Mortimer, and his Property has been burnt and destroyed by our rebels of Wales, so that the same Robert has not any castle or fortress Where he can tarry to resist and punish our aforesaid rebels, As we accept. We of our special grace have granted to the Same Robert the Castle of Clifford and the lordships of Clifford and Glasbury together with all the lands, tenements, rents, services, fees, advowsons, royalties, liberties, franchises, juristictions, escheats, fines, redemptions, and other commodities whatsoever, to the same Castle and lordships in any manner belonging, and also full punishment and execution of all rebels who are or shall be of or in the above said lordships, with all forfeitures and esceats of the said rebels, which same Castle and lordships before that they were burnt, devastated and destroyed by our aforesaid rebels stood the value of one hundred marks per annum as is said.
Inquisition Post Mortem for Robert Whyteney, dated 21 Henry VI (1443)
Children of Sir Robert and Wenllian (Oldcastle) Whitney:
i. Sir Eustace Whitney, b. 1410;[8] m. Jennet Russell and Jane Clifford. ii. Blanche Whitney, m. Sir Lawrence Bullen and had: Sir Thomas Bullen.[9] iii. Elizabeth Whitney, b. about 1414; m. Roger Blount, son of James Blount and Anne, daughter of James Parker de Lellinghall.[10] Children Roger and Elizabeth (Whitney) Blount: 1. Thomas Blount of Grendon. 2. Walter Blount of Eldersfield.
iv. (perhaps) Perin Whitney. She is listed as "Penyes or Perinda (?) da. of Sir Robt Whitney Kt.", the wife of "Sir Joh. Cheyney Kt. Sheriff of Bvcks & Beds 1423, 1425".[11] Other online sources date her marriage to about 1445 and her birth to anywhere from 1410 to 1421, and also name her Perin. If she is correctly placed in this family, she was no doubt named after her aunt Peryn Whitney. - Ch: John Cheyney, Esq., d. 1496, m. Elizabeth Brudenell, daughter of Edmund Brudenell and widow of Sir John Tyringham, d. 1484.
Notes
For more on the Blount Family, see A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain..., p. 166.
References
1.^ Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 216.
2.^ Source_of_birth.
3.^ Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 216.
4.^ Handwritten attestation by Rupert Taylor inserted in between pages 79 and 80 of Watkins's Hundred of Huntington indicates the IQM of Thomas Oldcastle's son Richard states Eustace Whitney was the son of Joan or Wentliana Oldcastle as one of the heirs.
5.^ Henry Austin Whitney, The First Known Use of Whitney as a Surname: Its Probable Signification, and Other Data (Boston, MA: Henry Austin Whitney, 1875), p. viii.
6.^ Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 216.
7.^ See Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry IV, vol. 2, p. 354.
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9.^ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain by Bernard Burke, Harrison, Oxford University: 1863. pp. 1669-70.
10.^ The Visitation of Shropshire Taken in the year 1623, By College of Arms, Great Britain, Robert Treswell, Augustine Vincent, William Camden, George Grazebrook, John Paul Rylands. Published 1889. Blount Family Pedigree recited on pages 50 to 57. Page 55 indicates Rogerus Blount married Elizabetha fil. Rob'ti Whitney militus. For Parker and Blount families see also: The Blount and Blunt Pedigree Chart, Helen M. Prescott, compiler, Washtington, DC: Press of W.F. Roberts, 1902, revised in 1930. See also, The Visitation of the County of Worcester Made in the Year 1569, Harleian Society Publications, Pages 20-21 Blount Family Pedigree states that Roger Blount of Gryndon married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Robert Whitney, Knight, of Whitney and had issue Thomas Blount.
11. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldics, p. 134 as found on Google Books.
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