Robert de Mohaut Constable of Cheshire

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 150:27, father of Roger de Mohaut of Howarden, perhaps married to daughter of William Fitz Neel of Halton and Constable of Cheshire. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Robert de Mohaut (de Monte Alto), cousin and heir to William de Mohaut, who was the son of Hugh Fitz Norman. He was also the nephew of Hugh Fitz Norman. He was the son of Ralph, dapifer of Steward of Hugh, Earl of Chester. Robert was known as "le Blakestiward," or Sir Robert de Mohaut the Black Steward. he defeated the Welsh, who were over running Cheshire, 3 Sep 1146, at Nantwich, and received various grants from the Earls of Chester, including Hawarden, which became the caput of the barony. In 1160, he was one of the farmers of the Earl of Chester's land and accounted as such until 1162. He married Leucha, who survived him.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Mohut), Vol. IX, pp. 10-11

Robert married.