Robert Belknap

• Preferred Name: Robert Belknap^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Alternate Name: "Sir" Robert Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Rober Belknap ;Sir
  
• Alternate Name: (Sir) Robert Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Rober Belknap Sir
  
• Alternate Name: Robert De Beaulknap (Sir)
  
• Alternate Name: Robert BELKNAPPE SIR
  
• Alternate Name: Robert Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Rober Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Roger Belnap Sir
  
• Alternate Name: Rober Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Robert Belnap
  
• Alternate Name: Sir: Robert Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Sir Robert Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Sir: Rober Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Robert Belknap (Sir)
  
• Alternate Name: Rober Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Robert Belknap Sir
  
• Alternate Name: Robert ( Notes) Beltofte Belcknappe ( L) Belknap SIR
  
• Alternate Name: Roher Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Robert Belknappe Chief Justice
  
• Alternate Name: Roger Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Rober Belnap
  
• Alternate Name: Robert BELKNAP
  
• Alternate Name: Robert
  
• Alternate Name: Robert Belknap
  
• Alternate Name: Robert Belknap [Sir Knight]
  
• Alternate Name: Rober Belknap {Sir}
  
• Alternate Name: *Robert Belknap
  
• Gender: M
  
• LdsEndowment: 16 DEC 1929 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: 19 JAN 1401 in England
  
• LdsBaptism: 16 NOV 1929 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: ABT 1330 in Kent, England
  
• Burial: in Rochester Precincts of the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kent, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.3627 LONG: E0.5006
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Belknap-Chief-Justice-of-the-Common-Pleas-Knight/6000000006444680173?through=6000000004957667588
  
• sir+robert+belknap: with note: Description: notable descendants-see http://www.belnapfamily.org/notablerelatives.htm See -Notable direct descendants of Sir Robert Belknap (who is also related to Adaline Knight) ▪ William Shakespeare, English Poet and Playwright (1564-1616) ▪ Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (1926-living) (related 6 known ways to Sir Robert Belknap) ▪ Lady Jane Grey, 9-day Queen of England (1537-1554) ▪ Sir Francis Bacon, English Philosopher and Statesman (1561-1626) ▪ Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1874-1965) (related twice to Sir Robert Belknap) ▪ Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997) (related three known ways to Sir Robert Belknap) ▪ Anne Stonor (about 1484-1518), wife of Sir Adrian Fortescue, English Catholic Martyr and Saint beheaded by Henry VIII (about 1476-1539) ▪ Frances Fortescue (about 1505-unknown), wife of "Silken Thomas" FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare executed by Henry VIII (about 1513-1537) ▪ Dorothy Wentworth (1543-1601), wife of Sir Martin Frobisher, New World Explorer and Defeater of the Spanish Armada (about 1535-1594) ▪ Jane Wentworth (about 1541-1614), wife of Henry, 1st Baron Cheney of Toddington and Judge at Trial of Mary Queen of Scots (1540-1587) ▪ Sir Richard Southwell, Privy Councillor under Henry VIII and Mary I ("Bloody Mary") (about 1518-1564) ▪ Father Robert Southwell, English Catholic Martyr and Saint (about 1561-1595) ▪ William Walsh, English Poet and Critic (1663-1708) ▪ Sir Anthony Hungerford, Noted Royalist during English Civil War (unknown-1657) ▪ Dorothea May (1590-1620), wife of William Bradford, Mayflower Passenger and Governor of Plymouth Colony (1590-1657) ▪ Thomasine Clopton (1582-1616), second wife of John Winthrop, Puritan Leader and 1st Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1649) ▪ John Jenney, early Plymouth Colony Settler and Builder of the Jenney Grist Mill (1585-1644) ▪ Violet Needham, English Author of Children's Books (1876-1967) ▪ Laura Laetitia Herbert (1916-unknown), wife of Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, British Author (1903-1966) ▪ Numerous Lords,
  
• FSID: L8MQ-5CR
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Sir Robert Belknap JP (died 19 January 1401) was an English judge. He is first mentioned in June 1351 in a papal register of indults issued to inhabitants of England, where he is called a "clerk, of the diocese of Salisbury" in Wiltshire. He next appears in 1353 as a member of a commission to survey Battle Abbey. This commission was followed by an extensive number of others, as evidenced by extant patent rolls, until 1388, most of which related to oyer and terminer, walliis et fossatis, gaol delivery, sewers, and the peace primarily, but not exclusively, in Kent and other parts of southeastern England. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Kent on 18 May 1362, and at the same time began serving as legal counsel. In July 1362 he served on a commission with William of Wykeham investigating lands granted to the Bishopric of Winchester, which Wykeham at that time held. From this point Belknap's career as a lawyer began to prosper; from 1371 he was retained as a lawyer by Westminster Abbey, and from 1374 by John of Gaunt. He was sent along with John Wycliffe and John Gilbert to Bruges in July 1374 to negotiate papal provisions; he returned in September and on 10 October he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and was knighted on 28 December of that same year. From 1375 to 1388 he served as a Trier of Petitions in Parliament, and in 1376 he was involved in investigating Richard Lyons in Essex and Sussex after complaints of embezzlement.
  
  Following the death of Edward III he was reappointed as Chief Justice under Richard II but was widely unpopular; at the time of the Peasants' Revolt he was in Essex conducting a court of trailbaston and was forced to promise not to conduct such courts again, as well as physically attacked. When the rebels reached London he was one of 15 people whose deaths they demanded. He also offended the people of London itself by suggesting that their claim to the position of Chief Butler of England for Richard's coronation should be rejected; in response they placed a model of his head on a water fountain in the marketplace so that it would vomit wine when Richard walked by.
  
  Belknap's downfall began when he advised the commission created in Parliament on 19 November 1386 to reform the government. The king and his advisers saw this commission as infringing on royal authority, and on 25 August 1387 Belknap and the other justices involved were summoned to Nottingham and asked whether such a commission was lawful and, if not, how the summoners should be punished. The justices responded that such a commission was unlawful, and that the summoners should be punished as traitors. Belknap reportedly refused to seal the answers until threatened with death by Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland, and Michael de la Pole.
  
  In response to this the Lords Appellant seized power on 17 November. After the Merciless Parliament began on 30 January 1388 Robert Charleton was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Belknap was arrested along with his fellow justices. The group were brought to trial on 27 February due to their answers in relation to the legality of the parliamentary commission, and were sentenced to death. After many high-ranking figures including William Courtenay and Queen Anne pleaded on their behalf, the sentence was changed to that of forfeiture and attainder, including exile to Drogheda, Ireland.
  
  At the time of his attainder, Belknap held extensive manorial properties in Kent (Beachborough Manor, Orpington, Seintling or Saint Mary Cray, Bybrook Manor, Westcombe Manor, Kingsnoth, among others), Sussex (Knelle Manor, Wilting Manor), Hampshire (Crux Easton, Penton Mewsey), Hertfordshire (Rushden, La More Manor), Cambridgeshire (Gamlingay, Caldecote, Norfolk (Salthouse), Bedfordshire (Little Holwell), and Oxfordshire (Hoo Manor). The attainder and exile were revoked in the January 1397 parliament. Some of Belknap's land holdings were returned to him or members of his immediate family with the first parliament of Henry IV in October 1399, although his wife Juliana in a noted case was allowed to bring suit as feme sole for certain lands. Belknap died less than two years later on 19 January 1401, and was buried in Rochester Cathedral.
  
  «b»Family«/b»
  Robert Belknap was born about or before 1330, possibly in Kent or Wiltshire, England, the son of John Belknap and his wife Alice. He was married twice, first to Amy (possibly de Say), who died before 1373, and second to Juliana Darset (died 1414), daughter of John Darset (or Darsett/Dorsett) and Elizabeth Phelipp, daughter of Thomas Phelipp of Baldock, Hertfordshire.
  
  «b»Belknap presumably had all of his five known children by Juliana:«/b»
  1.) Thomas Belknap (died before 1414)
  
  2.) John Belknap (died before 1414)
  
  3.) Joan or Joanna Belknap (died before 1419), married (1) Ralph de Stonor (died 13 November 1394 accompanying King Richard II of England while en route to Ireland) and (2) Sir Edmund Hampden (died before 29 April 1420), Sheriff and Escheator of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
  
  4.) Sir Hamon Belknap (died before 18 March 1428/1429), Treasurer of Normandy, married Joan Boteler, daughter of Thomas Boteler, 4th Baron Sudeley.
  
  5.) Juliana Belknap (died after 1417), married (1) Robert de Avenel and (2) Nicholas Kymbell
  
  Robert Belknap is the great grandfather of Sir Edward Belknap, Privy Councillor to Henry VII and Henry VIII, through Sir Hamon Belknap's son Sir Henry Belknap (died 20 June 1488).
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === In 1388 , he was banished to Ireland - p ===
  In 1388 , he was banished to Ireland - per Hx of Co of Kent by W.H. Ireland vol 4 p 512
  
  === SIR ROBERT BELKNAPPE WAS CHIEF JUSTICE O ===
  SIR ROBERT BELKNAPPE WAS CHIEF JUSTICE OF COMMON PLEAS PRIOR TO 1388. TRICKED WITH OTHER JUDGES, AND THEIR ANSWERS TO CERTAIN QUESTIONS WERE TAKEN AS TREASON AGAINST THE KING. THEY WERE SENT TO THE TOWER TO AWAIT DEATH BUT WERE LATER SENT 'BEYOND THE IRISH PALE'. HE WAS RECALLED TO ENGLAND IN 1397 AND PETITIONED PARLIAMENT FOR THE RESTORATION OF HIS ESTATES IN 1399. HE DIED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS.
  
  === SOME SOURCES SAY ROBERT WAS THE FATHER O ===
  SOME SOURCES SAY ROBERT WAS THE FATHER OF HAMON OR HAMMOND (NOTES) BELKNAPPE OR (L) BELKNAP (SHOWN AS HIS GRANDSON HERE) BUT HE IS NOT SHOWN SO HERE BECAUSE SHOWING MORE THAN ONE SET OF PARENTS COULD CAUSE MY "FAMILY TREE" PROGRAM TO MALFUNCTION.
  
  ROBERT WAS CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS (COMPARABEL TO OUR SUPREME COURT) IN THE TIME OF KING RICHARD II OF ENGLAND.
  
  HE WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST OF HIS HOUSE TO BE KNIGHTED.
  
  HIS RECORD CAN BE FOUND IN RAYMER'S FOEDERA, VOLUME 4, PAGE 623, IN THE YEAR 1369.
  
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  === 1. Putnam Lineage B3B18. 2. Bucks 1, Vol ===
  1. Putnam Lineage B3B18. 2. Bucks 1, Vol 2, Hist. & Antiquity of the Co. of Bucks, p. 232. 3. John Philipot, Visitations of Bucks, made 1634, London 1909.
  
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  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.52;
  
  === Name Suffix: Sir Ancestral File Nu ===
  Name Suffix: Sir Ancestral File Number: FBVX-DQ
  
  === A23840-5 A 19 Miscellanea Genealogica et ===
  A23840-5 A 19 Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldick vol 5 ser 5 p 333; Dugdale Vol II p 563-4
  
  === dead ===
  dead
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === !SOURCE: BENJAMIN BARNES PUTNAM GENEALO ===
  !SOURCE: BENJAMIN BARNES PUTNAM GENEALOGY; ANCESTRAL FILE VER. 4.00
  
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  SOURCE CITATION: Title: Ancestral File (TM) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication Information: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996 Repository Name: Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
  
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• m. BEF 2 DEC 1365
• m. ABT 1372

1. Juliana Belknap, b. ABT 1360     d. AFT 1417

• m. BEF 2 DEC 1365

• m. 1341 in Hampden, Buckinghamshire,, England

1. Title: EARLY BELKNAPS: HISTORIES and DOCUMENTS; Robert Belknap (about 1330-1401
   Author: Gathered here is the most comprehensive public repository of primary and other materials on the life of Sir Robert Belknap, who served as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in England during the reigns of King Edward III and Richard II, from 1374 to 1388.
   Publication: Name: http://www.sirrobertbelknap.org/;
   Note: Biographies and Related Materials ▪Foss, Edward. The Judges of England; With Sketches of Their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices Connected with the Courts of Westminster, from the Time of the Conquest (1851), vol. IV, pp. 31-35 [also vol. __, p. 65] http://www.bel transcription http://www.bel ▪ Foss, Edward. Biographia Juridica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England from the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870 (1870), pp. 64-65 http://books.go ▪ Campbell, John Lord. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England, From the Norman Conquest Till the Death of Lord Tenterden, (1874, third ed.), vol. I, pp. 128-35, published by J. Murray http://www.bel transcription [TO COME] ▪ Stephen, Leslie, ed. "Robert Bealknap." Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1885), vol. IV, pp. 9-10 [vol. 21, pp. 962-972; Sydney Lee, vol. II, pp. 9-10] http://www.bel transcription http://www.bel ▪ Fuller, Thomas and Nuttall, P. Austin. The History of the Worthies of England, (1840, new edition) vol. II, p. 233 (under Leicestershire) http://books.go Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers ▪ Bliss, William Henry and Johnson, C., eds. Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland: Papal Letters, vol. III, A.D. 1342-1362 (1897), p. 412: Regesta, vol. CCIII [16 Kal.]: granting indulgence to "Robert Belknap, clerk, of the diocese of Salisbury" Jun 1351 http://books.go Calendar of Patent Rolls: Edward III http://www.uio ▪ CPR, Edward III, vol. 9, p. 440: Battle Abbey survey 8 May 1353 http://sdrc.lib.u ▪ CPR, Richard II, vol. 1, p. 1 26 Jun 1377 http://sdrc.lib.u ▪ CPR, Henry IV, vol. 1, p. 148 20 Nov 1399 http://sdrc.lib.u Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry V ▪ Belknap, Julia who was the wife of Richard, kt: Kent (should be Robert?) 2 Henry V C 138/6/13 ▪ "Introduction." Calendar of letter-books of the city of London: H: 1375-1399, pp. I-LVII 1907 http://www.briti Special Collections: Ancient Petitions: Legal Matters (UK National Archives) Issue Rolls Parliament Rolls Land Holdings: General Miscellaneous Legal Service Records (UK National Archives) Chancery Records (UK National Archives) State Papers (UK National Archives) Wills Parliamentary Debates: Post-Contemporary References Books/Periodicals mentioning Sir Robert Belknap Photographs and Images
   Page: Gathered here is the most comprehensive public repository of primary and other materials on the life of Sir Robert Belknap, who served as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in England during the reigns of King Edward III and Richard II, from 1374 to 1388.
   
2. Title: Birth life and death
   Author: Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bealknap;
   Page: Verifies birth, life, death
   
3. Title: Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=1981&h=8633&indiv=try;
   
4. Title: Robert Belknap, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGR-CZS4 : 6 March 2021), Robert Belknap, ; Burial, Rochester, Medway Unitary Authority, Kent, England, Rochester Cathedral; citing record ID 133514756, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGR-CZS4;
   
5. Title: Robert de Bealknap, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-TGT2 : 30 May 2020), Robert de Bealknap, 1401; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-TGT2;
   
6. Title: Robert Belknap, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG3-LFYT : 15 June 2022), Robert Belknap, ; Burial, Rochester, Medway Unitary Authority, Kent, England, Rochester Cathedral; citing record ID 113765512, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG3-LFYT;
   
7. Title: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Bealknap, Sir Robert (d. 1401), justice
   Publication: Name: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1809;