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.

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.^[6]

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

i.	Robert Whitney, b. 1348;[7] m. Joan Trussell and Maud Cromwell.
ii.	son Whitney, d. about 1402, probably at the Battle of Pilleth.[8]

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.^  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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8.^  Patent Roll 5 Henry IV., 1st Part, No. 372 (1404)

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