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- Name: Robert Hollywood
NPFX: Sir
Sex: M
Residence: Tartayne, co Dublin, Irleand
Note:
The same Sir Robert as the other ones in this database?
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Artane on Dublin's northside is named after either Ard Tain, meaningHeight of the Flocks, or Ard Aidhean, or Aidan's height. Owned in the14th century by Robert de Hollywood, it is the site of Artane Castle,where the followers of Silken Thomas murdered the Archbishop of DublinJohn Allen in the mid-1500s.
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Hollywood, the next locality on this route, was an ancient manor of thefamily who thence derived their name, and extended over the lands ofHollywood, Kinawde, Brownstown, Newtown, Ballyrichard, Damastown, &c.
In 1206 King John directed a reference to ascertain whether Hollywood,then the fee of Geoffrey de Marisco, had been obtained on an exchange bythe Archbishop of Dublin. [Lit. Pat. in Turr. Lond.]
In 1230 flourished John de Hollywood, a famous philosopher andmathematician, and so called from having been born here. "In hisspringing years," says Hanmer, "he sucked the sweet milk of good learningin the famous university of Oxford, afterwards he went to Paris, where heprofessed the learned sciences with singular commendations, and thereslumbereth in the dust of the earth, whose exequies and funerals werethere with great lamentations solemnized." He wrote four booksrespectively treating 'De Sphaera Mundi,' 'De Algarismo,' 'De AnnoRatione sire de computo ecclesiastico,' and 'Breviarium Juris.' The firstof these works has been commented upon by many learned men, andparticularly by Christopher Clavius. He died at Paris as beforementioned, and was buried there in the cloisters of the convent of StMaturine, otherwise called the convent of the Holy Trinity for theredempton of captives; a sphere is engraved upon his tomb. [Ware'sWriters, p. 73] For a notice of Hollywood and its dependant chapelry ofGrallagh, in this century, see at "Clonmethan?'
About the year 1302 "there arose a great controversy in law betweenRichard de Feringes, Archbishop of Dublin, and the Lord Edmund Butler,touching the manor of Hollywood in Fingal, with the appurtenances2 whichmanor the Lord Butler recovered by an arbitrament or composition takenbetween them in the King's Bench at Dublin." [Holinshed.]
In 1310 Roger de Sacro Bosco (Hollywood) was summoned to attend theparliament of Kilkenny; and in 1334 Henry Hollywood, a Dominican friar,was directed to parley with O'Conor, Prince of the Irish of Connaught,and to receive for his expenses and services forty shillings.
In 1355 Robert Hollywood was Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer. In 1361Robert de Hollywood, a member of this family, was one of those gentlemen,"the worthiest then in chivalry," who were knighted by Lionel Duke ofClarence. In 1373 he had a grant of ?40 for his services in the wars inthe counties of Kilkenny and Carlow, and in 1317 was required to marchwith his retinue against the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles. In 1401 ChristopherHollywood was one of those empowered by the king to hold convocations ofthe prelates, magnates, &c., to record their proceedings and to assessthe state subsidies voted by them. For notices in 1416 and 1420, see at"Artane."
In 1422 the Hollywood family were on inquisition found seised of variouslands in Hollywood, Brownstown, Cloghran, &c. [Rot. Pat. in Canc. Hib.]The former denomination being charged with a certain chief rent to thepriory of the Holy Trinity of Lismullen, in the county of Meath. The samefamily had also the patronage of the vicarage of Hollywood, until by themarriage of the heiress of Sir Robert Hollywood with Robert Burnell ofBalgriffin, it passed to the latter family.
http://indigo.ie/~kfinlay/Dalton/Hollywood.htm
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Since both Elizabeth and Margaret were heiresses of their father, I haveassumed their father must be the same Sir Robert.
From "Ancestors of some 21st century British children" athttp://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ancestorsearch&id=I29593
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