Robert de Molyneux

  General Notes:

~Visitation of Lancashire by Sir William Dugdale, Vol. II, 1665-5, Molineux of Sefton pedigree, p.204,

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁷
Robert de Molyneux married Beatrix, daughter and heir of Robert de Villers, Lord of Little Crosby, by whom he had two sons, Richard Molyneux, Lord of Shefton, Little Crosby and Speke, and Simon.
~Memoir of the Molineux Family, pg. 3

• Background Information. ⁷²⁷
Robert, the eldest son of Adam, married Beatrice, daughter and heir of Robert de Villers, Lord of Little-Crosby, son of Alan, son of Pagan de Villers, who entered England with William the Conqueror, and was first Lord of Crosby after the conquest.

Robert was succeeded by his son Richard, who married Edith, daughter of Aumary Pincerna, (i.e. Butler) of Warrington and they had issue, Adam and Robert, of which Robert, preceeded Richard, father to another Robert, of Thorneton, progenitor to those of Mellingwood.
~The Baronetage of England, Kimble & Johnson, 1771, p. 60

Robert married Beatrix de Villiers, daughter of Sir Robert de Villiers Earl of Jersey and Unknown, about 1158 in England.⁷¹⁶ (Beatrix de Villiers was born in 1138 in England.)