Sir Richard de Molyneux Knight

  General Notes:

~Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, ser.1 v.2 1849-1850, pedigree on pages 150-151, Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton, Knight, son and heir of Sir William Molyneux. ⁷²⁹

~Visitation of Lancashire by Sir William Dugdale, Vol. II, 1665-5, Molineux of Sefton pedigree, p.204 ⁷⁵¹

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁶
Sir Richard heir to his father; who by Agatha Kyerton, daughter and heir to Sir Roger Kyralon of Lardbrook, Knight, had six sons and two daughters. Ellen, the oldest married Richard Bold of Bold Lancashire, Esq.; Sir William the eldest succeeded his father in 1363.

~History, Genealogical and Biographical, of the Molyneux Families, pp. 9, 29

• Background Information. ⁷²⁷
Sir Richard, son of Sir William, was forteen years of age when his father died. He married Agatha, daughter and heir of Sir Roger Illerton, Knight. Their children were: (1) Sir William, (2) Richard, (3) John, (4) Thomas who was slain in battle, and married the daughter and heir of Alexander de Kennerdall, and left issue, a daughter and heir who married Ofbaldeston of Ofbaldeston, (5) Roger of Raynhull, whose grand-daughter and heir married to Lancaster.

~The Baronetage of England, Kimble & Johnson, 1771, p. 60

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁷
Sir Richard Molyneux, Knight, son and heir to his father, married Agatha, daughter and heir of Sir Roger Kyrton, and Richard died in 1363.

~Memoir of the Molineux Family, p. 4

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁵⁴
Sir Richard Molyneus of Sephton, being only 17 years of age at his father's death, was granted in ward to John, Duke of Lancaster, King of Castile and Leon. Sir Richard was make a knight, and taking to wife, Agatha, daughter and heir of Sir Roger (or Robert) Kyrton of Lardbrook, Knight.

~The Peerage of Ireland, p. 242

Richard married Agatha Kyrton, daughter of Sir Roger Kyrton Knight and Unknown ^716,717.^,1054 (Agatha Kyrton was born in Lardbrook, Lancashire, England.)