BELKNAP, Robert, Sir

  General Notes:

AKA Bealknap

  Research Notes:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Belknap-37

Biography

Robert Belknap[1] was born about or before 1330, possibly in Kent or Wiltshire, England, the son of John Belknap and his wife Alice.

Family 1

Amy (possibly daughter of William de Say, knight), who died before 1373[2]

Family 2

Juliana Darset[3] (died 1414), daughter of John Darset (or Darsett/Dorsett) and Elizabeth Phelipp, daughter of Thomas Phelipp of Baldock, Hertfordshire. [4]

Children

Thomas Belknap (died before 1414)

John Belknap (died before 1414)

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

Sir Hamon Belknap (died before 18 March 1428/1429), Treasurer of Normandy, married Joan Boteler, daughter of Thomas Boteler, 4th Baron Sudeley.

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).

He served as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of England commencing in 1377 until his banishment to Ireland in 1388 by King Richard II.

On June 2, 1381, the chief justice of the common pleas, Sir Robert Belknap, arrived in Brentwood to summon jurors to indict the rebels (the Peasant's Revolt). However, the commons refused and made him take an oath not to attempt such a task again[5][6]
Sources

? Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 232.
? Lyte, H. C. Maxwell, Sir., (1896). Calendar of the Close rolls preserved in the Public record office. 1365/6, 39th yr of Edward III. (Vol. 12 p.206.), Memorandum of acknowledgment of the foregoing charter and writing in the chancery at London, 22 December. Great Britain: Public Record Office. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 11 Sept 2021.
? Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 140-141.
? Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 89.
? http://www.sirrobertbelknap.org/
? Edward Foss, The Judges of England; with sketches of their lives (1851), p. 31. Transcribed at Brent J. Belnap's website for the Belknap family.

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Robert married Juliana DARSET, daughter of John DARSET and Elizabeth PHELIPP, unknwn. (Juliana DARSET was born 1341 ? in Essex, England and died on 22 Jul 1414.)