Family:Robert de Holland and Maud la Zouche (1)

The marriage of Sir Robert de Holand and Maud la Zouche and Maud's birth in about 1290 are well established by the inquests at the death of her father, Alan la Zouche (CIPM, v. 5, pp. 255-259, the first dated 27 March 7 Edw. II [1314]) in which Maud is identified as wife of Sir Robert de Holand and as age 24 (she had an elder sister, Ellen, wife of Sir Nicholas de Sancto Mauro, age 26, and a younger sister Elizabeth, age 20, a nun; Ellen and Maud are identified as coheirs). It is not clear why CP says Robert and Maud were married “about 1311” (when she would have been 21) but it was certainly before March 1314 (when she was 24). Of course, they could have been married earlier, say as early as 1305.

About 1308 he married Maude la Zouche, daughter of Lord Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby and Eleanor de Segrave.

Robert and Maude had thirteen children:

• Joane Holland (c. 1305 - 1340). Married John Radcliffe.
  
• Margery Holland (born c. 1308).
  
• Robert Holland (c. 1312 - 16 March 1372/1373).
  
• Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent (c. 1314 - 26 December 1360).
  
• Otho Holland (c. 1316 - 3 September 1359).
  
• John Holland (born c. 1318).
  
• Maud Holland (born c. 1319). Married Thomas Swinnerton.
  
• Alan Holland (c. 1320 - 1339).
  
• Elizabeth Holland (born c. 1320).
  
• Margaret Holland (c. 1322 - 1349).
  
• Jane Holland (born c. 1326).
  
• Eleanor Holland (c. 1327 - 1341).
  
• Elizabeth Holland (born c. 1328).