General Notes

Probably derived his name from Holderness, Yorkshire; he was steward of the Count of Aumle, lord of Holderness; styled himself 'Piers de Rossa' or 'Piers the steward of Holderness'; he gave 2 carucates of land in Gilling, near Helmsley, and the church to St. Mary's Abbey, Yorkshire; he pre-deceased his brother-in-law, Walter Espec, and was presumably dead in 1130; was the founder of 3 monastaries - Kirkham (1122), Rievaulx (1131) and in Yorks and Wardon, Beds (1135).