Adam de Molyneux Lord of Speke

  General Notes:

~Visitation of Lancashire by Sir William Dugdale, Vol. II, 1665-5, Molineux of Sefton pedigree, p.204, married to Annota, daughter and heir of Benedict de Gernet. ⁷⁵¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁹
~Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, ser.1 v.2 1849-1850, 152-153
The House of Molyneux, which this held Speke from Gernet, descended from William des Moulins, who is named eighteenth in a list of Norman warriors given by Holinshed [Holinshed, vol.2, p.4, edition 1807], and prefixed, as a citation from "the Chronicles of Normandy," to his copy of the Battle Abbey Roll, with which later unauthentic document, Collins and watton, in their several Baronetages, confound it.

Dugdale's Visitation of 1664, states that Annota, only daughter and heir of Benedict Gernet, was the wife of Adam des Molines. The Speke extract from the old Lancshire Feodary makes Roger Gernet the grantor in frank marriage, and Richard Molyneux the receiver[ Harl. M.s. 1997, pg. 88. The Citation is from the "Liber Feodorum" remaining in the Duchy Office at Westminister at about 1500]. The fact seems to be, Adam des Molines married an heiress of one of the Gernets of the Halton family, and that he recieved Speke in Franck marriage, either from the father or the bride, or her near kinsman the head of the family. This later was passed to the Erneys, then to the Norreys.

• Family Background. ⁷¹⁶
Vivian, heir of William de Molins, was the father of Adam de Molines, who married Annota daughter of Benedict Garnet, Lord of Speke in Lancastershire, and had three sons, the heir being Robert who married Beatrix de Villers, heir to Pagan de Villers, Lord of Little Crosby in Lancaster.
~"Lineage of the English Branch, Molyneux", from The History, Genealogical and Biographical, of the Molyneux Families, page 9

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁷
Vivian, son and heir of William de Moulins, was the trusty friend of Roger de Poictou, Earl of Lancaster, and was placed by him in his castle at Liverpool, to act as his governor and castellanus, in the utmost limits of his earldom. He was succeeded by his son Adam Molines, Lord of Sefton and Speke, who by his wife Annota, daughter and heir of Benedict le Gernet, Lord of Speke, had three sons, Robert de Molyneux, Gilbert and Henry.
~Memoir of the Molineux Family, pg. 2

• Background Information. ⁷²⁷
Vivian de Molines, by his wife Siwards, had issue of Adam, Dominus de Sefton, Lancashire, who married Annota, sole daughter and heir of Benedict de Garnett, Lord of Speke, in Lancashire, and they had issue of three sons, Robert, Gilbert, and Henry, as well as a daughter, Siwarda, who became the wife of ______ Fitz Annot.
~The Baronetage of England, Kimble & Johnson, 1771, p. 60

Adam married Annota de Garnet, daughter of Benedict le Garnett Lord of Speke in Lancastershire and Unknown ⁷¹⁶.^,751 (Annota de Garnet was born about 1111 in Speke, Lancashire, England.)