Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Robert de Holywood (died 1384) was an Irish judge and landowner who held the office of Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer: he was the ancestor of the Holywood family of Artane Castle.He took his surname from the parish of Holywood, near Balbriggan, County Dublin. He was a Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) in 1356 and in 1359 was charged with the defence of Leinster. He was appointed Chief Baron in 1363, superseded the following year, but reappointed in 1367. In 1376 he finally stepped down as Chief Baron.In 1361 he was pardoned for purchasing land without royal permission. This may refer to his purchase of Artane Castle, of which he was the first recorded owner and which remained in his family for several centuries (unlike most judges of the time he was not in holy orders). In 1367 he sat on a powerful commission to determine whether the manor of Rathkeale was Crown land, but it apparently never reported, since an identical inquiry was launched in 1374. Ball notes that while many of his fellow judges exposed themselves to danger on assize, Holywood preferred the security of Dublin.In 1373, in consideration of his good services to the Crown, he was given permission to found a chantry with five chaplains at Holywood and in 1376 was given licence to allow them to choose a warden.The chaplains were required to pray for the souls of Sir Robert himself, his two wives and Queen Philippa of Hainault, the lately deceased wife of King Edward III.His first wife was named Joan; his second, living in 1376, was called Nesta. He died in 1384.. }
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- Robert_de_Holywood abstract "Robert de Holywood (died 1384) was an Irish judge and landowner who held the office of Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer: he was the ancestor of the Holywood family of Artane Castle.He took his surname from the parish of Holywood, near Balbriggan, County Dublin. He was a Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) in 1356 and in 1359 was charged with the defence of Leinster. He was appointed Chief Baron in 1363, superseded the following year, but reappointed in 1367. In 1376 he finally stepped down as Chief Baron.In 1361 he was pardoned for purchasing land without royal permission. This may refer to his purchase of Artane Castle, of which he was the first recorded owner and which remained in his family for several centuries (unlike most judges of the time he was not in holy orders). In 1367 he sat on a powerful commission to determine whether the manor of Rathkeale was Crown land, but it apparently never reported, since an identical inquiry was launched in 1374. Ball notes that while many of his fellow judges exposed themselves to danger on assize, Holywood preferred the security of Dublin.In 1373, in consideration of his good services to the Crown, he was given permission to found a chantry with five chaplains at Holywood and in 1376 was given licence to allow them to choose a warden.The chaplains were required to pray for the souls of Sir Robert himself, his two wives and Queen Philippa of Hainault, the lately deceased wife of King Edward III.His first wife was named Joan; his second, living in 1376, was called Nesta. He died in 1384.".