Maude de Grosvenor

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
Maud Grosvenor, sister of Robert Grosvenor of Budworth. She is described, in some pedigrees, as the concubine of Sir Ralph and others as his second wife. Ormerod, suggested that she might have been both, and that Richard, their son was a bastard, as were likely the rest of their children. He also says that she seems to have been of the family of the Grosvenors of Holme in Allostack.

~Ormerod's History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, vol. III, p. 252

• Background Information: From GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Archives. ¹⁹³
From: "Sutliff" <sssbo@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Dacre and De Vernon families, 1300s
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:43:55 GMT

What you have pointed out is a fundamental flaw in the databases where persons of the same name may have been attached to each other. Ralph de Vernon of Shipbrook (d. abt 1327) had possibly two wives Mary (?Dacre, sources including Ormerod III:252 call her "daughter of Lord Dacre of the North" without further elaboration or confirmation), and Maud le Grosvenor who depending on the source was his second wife and/or concubine. Maud was the daughter of Robert le Grosvenor of Hulme and Nether Pever by his wife Emma de Mobberley, one of the eight daughters and eventual heiresses of William Mobberley of Mobberley.

Maude married Sir Ralfe de Vernon Knight, Baron of Shipbrook, son of Ralfe de Vernon Rector of Hanwell and Unknown.⁷¹³ (Sir Ralfe de Vernon Knight, Baron of Shipbrook was born in Shipbrook, Cheshire, England and died about 1327 in Shipbrook, Cheshire, England.)