Family:Whitney, Robert de (1318-c1380)

Robert de Whitney (Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), son of Eustace de Whitney,^[1] was born 1318, Whitney, Herefordshire,^[2] and died about 1380, Whitney, Herefordshire.^[3]

Nothing is known of his wife.^[4]

In 1353 Robert de Whytene presented Baldwyn de Whytene to the church of Pencomb. Robert Whitney was also sheriff of Herefordshire 1 Richard II [1377-1378].^[5]

While this Baldwin de Whitney, a priest, must have been a relative, it is not at all clear how. This is the only known reference to him. Perhaps he was a younger brother.

"Licence, for 100s. to be paid to the king by John son of Edward de Penebrugge, for him to enfeoff Robert Whiteney and Thomas de Hampton of the manors of Bouthrede and Eton, co. Hereford, held of the king in chief, and for them to grant the same to him and Elizabeth, his wife, and his heirs."^[6]

In 1358, Robert de Whitney purchased land in Boughrood & Eton^[7]

He was of Whitney, etc., Knight. One of 200 gentlemen who in 1368 went to Milan in the retinue of the Duke of Clarence on the occastion of the latter's marriage. Member of Parliament for Herefordshire in 1376, 1379, and 1380; Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1377.^[8]

Petitioners, including Sir Robert de Whyteney, complain of incursions of the Welsh and resulting damages to person and property in Herefordshire, dated 1378.

Children of Robert and ----- (-----) de Whitney:

i.	Robert Whitney, b. 1348;[9] m. Joan Trussell and Maud Cromwell.
ii.	(son) Whitney, d. about 1402, probably at the Battle of Pilleth.[10]

References

1.^  Source_of_parentage.

2.^  Source_of_birth.

3.^  Source_of_death.

4.^  Source_of_marriage.

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.^  Discussion thread "Eylesford and Boulewas/Buildwas: also Sir Thomas BARRE" in soc.genealogy.medieval, referencing Patent Rolls: (EIII 10 p.344) Feb 1 1356.

7.^  Morgan George Watkins, Collections towards the history and antiquities of the county of Hereford. In continuation of Duncumb’s history. Hundred of Huntington ... (Hereford: 1898), pp. 77-95.

8.^  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.

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10.^  Patent Roll 5 Henry IV., 1st Part, No. 372 (1404)

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