Beatrix de Villiers

  General Notes:

~Visitation of Lancashire by Sir William Dugdale, Vol. II, 1665-5, Molineux of Sefton pedigree, p.204, Beatrix daughter and heir of Robert de villiers, wife of Robert Molineux. ⁷⁵⁶

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁶
"Robert de Molyneux, son of Adam de Molyneux and Annota de Garnett, married temp. King John, "The Lackland" Beatrix de Villiers, dau. and heiress of Sir Robert de Villiers, son of Richard de Villiers, a crusader under Edward I of Robert aquired the estate of Little Crosby, Co. Lancaster.
Beatrix de Villiers, ambitious to be a queen, in love with King John, loath to leave him, but by him (King John) given in marriage to one barons (temp.) Sir Robert Molyneux. She did bitterly curse the House of Molyneux and all that bear the name, calling down maledictions of misery, blasting their loves with tragedy. Descending from the issue of this marriage are the Earls of Sefton, Ireland, Teversall, and Nottinghamshire."
~History, Genealogical and Biographical, of the Molyneux Families, pg. 20

Beatrix married Robert de Molyneux, son of Adam de Molyneux Lord of Speke and Annota de Garnet, about 1158 in England.⁷¹⁶ (Robert de Molyneux was born about 1135 in Sefton, Lancashire, England.)