Sir William de Molyneux Knight

  General Notes:

~Visitation of Lancashire by Sir William Dugdale, Vol. II, 1665-5, Molineux of Sefton pedigree, p.204-205 ⁷⁵¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁶
Sir William the eldest son of his father. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Holland, and had Sir Richard Molins, or Molyneux, who married Ellen, daughter of Sir Thomas Urswich, and deceasing 1397, by her (who afterwards married Sir Thomas Savage) had three sons, Richard, Adam and Robert. Adam was Bishop of Chester and keeper of the privy-seal in the reign of King Henry VI and was murdered at Portsmouth in 1449. Robert married Margret, daughter of Sir Baldwin le Strange, and left an only child, Edith, who married Adam Troutback, Esq. Whose daughter Margret married Sir John Talbot of Grafton, ancestor by her of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford. Richard s. at Sefton, and eminently distinguished himself at the battle of Aguencourt, where he was knighted. He married first, Joan, daughter of Sir Gilbert Haydock, of Bradley, widow of Sir Peter Leigh of Lyme, and had eight sons and three daughters; Catherine, married first, John Stanhope, Esq., and second, Sir Radcliffe, of Swithells. Genet to Robert, Vis Gormanston; Elizabeth to Sir Robert Southworth. His second wife was Helen, daughter to Sir William Harrington of Hornby and widow of ____ Ratcliff of the Tower in Lancaster, Esq.; by whom he had two daughters. Anna married Sir Richard Nevil of Tevefedge, in Yorkshire; and Margaret to Sir Peter Leigh of Lyme, Knight.
~History, Genealogical and Biographical, of the Molyneux Families, pg. 10-11

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁷
Sir William Molyneux distinguished himself in the wars in France and Spain under the Black Prince, and he was make a Knight Banneret in 1367, after the Battle of Navarret. He died at Canterbury on his return home in 1372, and was buried there. The following epitaph was incribed on his tomb:

By his wife Joane, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Holland, Knight, Sir William Molyneux had an only son, Sir Richard Molyneux, Knight, High Sheriff of Lancashire for life, and M.P. for the Shire 20th Richard II, who married Elinor, daughter of Sir Thomas Urswick, Knight.
~Memoir of the Molineux Family, pgs. 5-6

• Background Information. ⁷²⁷
William, eldest son and heir of Sir William, was also a knight and a person of great courage and accomplishments. He distinguished himself at the battle of Navarre, Spain, under Edward the Blaci Prince, and was made a Knight Banneret in 1367. He died at Canterbury, 1372, and was buried there. He left an heir to his estate by Jane, his wife and daughter & coheir to Sir Robert Holland, Knight, by Margaret, daughter of Sir Alan Heyton, Knight.
~The Baronetage of England, Kimble & Johnson, 1771, p. 61

William married Jane Holland, daughter of Sir Robert Holland and Margaret Heyton ⁷¹⁶.^,751 (Jane Holland was born about 1338 in England and died before 1372.)