Vivian de Molyneux Lord of Sefton

  General Notes:

~Visitation of Lancashire by Sir William Dugdale, Vol. II, 1665-5, Molineux of Sefton pedigree, p.204, Vivian Molineux, married to Sywarda, his son was Adam de Molineux. ⁷⁵¹

~The Peerage of Ireland, Vol. II, "Viscount Molyneux Pedigree," pp. 26-31 ¹⁰⁵⁴

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁷
Vivian, son and heir of William de Moulins, was the trusty friend of Roger de Poictou, Earl of Lancaster, and was placed by him in his castle at Liverpool, to act as his governor and castellanus, in the utmost limits of his earldom.

He was succeeded by his son Adam Molines, Lord of Sefton and Speke, who by his wife Annota, daughter and heir of Benedict le Gernet, Lord of Speke, had three sons, Robert de Molyneux, Gilbert and Henry.

~Memoir of the Molineux Family, pg. 2

• Family Background. ⁷¹⁶
To William de Molins, succeeded Vivian, his heir, who bore the cross Moline for his arms, and was father to Adam Molines; who married Annota, daughter of Bennedict Garnet, Lord of Speke in Lancastershire, and had three sons of which Robert, son & married Beatrix de Villers, heir to Pagan de Villers, Lord of Little Crosby in the County of Lancaster, with whom he had the Lordship, and by her had a son Richard, who married Edith, sister to Alenerice de Botiller of Wernington, and father of Adam de Molins who son at Shefton, and in the reign of Henry III, was made Forrester, in the county Lancaster.

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

• Background Information. ⁷²⁷
Vivian de Molines, by his wife Siwarda, had issue of Adam, Dominus de Sefton, Lancashire, who married Annota, sole daughter and heir of Benedict de Garnett, Lord of Speke, in Lancashire, and they had issue of three sons, Robert, Gilbert, and Henry, as well as a daughter, Siwarda, who became the wife of ______ Fitz Annot.

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

Vivian married Sywarda.⁷¹⁶ (Sywarda was born about 1085 in Lancashire, England.)