Sir Robert le Grosvenor Knight
- Born: 1342, Hulme, Cheshire, England 525,713
- Marriage: Joan de Pulford 713
- Died: 22 Apr 1396, Cheshire, England at age 54 525,713
 Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 525
Sir Robert le Grosvenor was born about 1342 and died 22 Apr 1396. He did homage in 1373, and served in France in 1359-1360 under his father-in-law, Sir John Danyers. He also servered under the Black Prince in 1379-1370. Sir Robert le Grosvenor married first, Margaret Danyers who died in Jun 3 1370 and then married Joan, daughter of Robert de Pulford and the widow of Thomas de Belgrave. Joan was the heir to her brother John de Pluford.
In 1385 an English army under the king invaded Scotland. Sir Richard Scrope, first Baron of Scrope of bolton was incensed to find in the camp a Knight of Palatinate (Chesire), Sir Robert Grosvenor, bearing the same coat, azure, a bend, as his own. The matter was referred to a court of chivalry, composed of the constable and marshal of England with other nobles. Many sittings were held, and much evidence collected.
~The Bulkeley Ancestry, p. 7
• Background Information. 803
Sir Robert le Grosvenor had two wives; first Joan, on of the daughters of sir John Daniers, or Danyell, of Tabley in the county of Chester, Kinght-Banneret, but they had no issue. His second wife was Joan or Jane, sometimes called Joceline, daughter of Sir Robert de Pulford, lord of Pulford, in the county of Chester, Knight, who was living in 1348, when Sir James Audley was Sheriff of that county, and widown of Thomas Belgrave, and at length heir to her brother, John, son and heir to her father, Sir Robert, by dame Jane his wife, who, after his death, took Richard de Bosseley for her second husband. The said Sir Robert de Pulford was the son of Sir Robert, lord of Pulford, who was alive in 1308, and was son of another Sir Robert de Pulford, lord of Pulford, who was with King Edward I in the wars of Scotland. The said said Sir Robert le Grosvenor was Sheriff of Cheshire, quam diu nobis placuerit, as appears by an ancient writ, now remaining in the Exchequer at Chester, dated January 1st, 1388/89. He was again Sheriff of that county, 1394, and by the aforesaid Joan, or Joceline, left at his death, which happened in 1396, a son and heir, Sir Thomas le Grosvenor.
~Collins's Peerage of England, page 248
• Background Information. 713
Sir Robert le Grosvenour was the son of Raufe le Grosvenour and his wife Joan. He was sherif of Cheshire, 12 Ric II, 1388 anbd also 12 Ric. II, 1399, and again in 18 Ric II, 1395. He died 19 Ric. II and left a widow named Ann. His son Sir Thomas was the son of his second wife, Joan, daughter of Sir Robert Pulford, and sister and heir of John Pulford, esquire, who died during the lifetime of her husband.
George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol III, p. 151
Sir Robert Grosvenor, knight, son of Ralph le Grosvenor and Emma Mobbery, was under age at the time of his father's death. He became the ward of Sir John Daniell, who married him to his daughter Joan. She must have died before they were able to have children, and he married Joan, widow of Thomas, son of John Belgreave.
George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol III, p. 146
Robert married Joan de Pulford, daughter of Sir Robert de Pulford Knight and Jane.713 (Joan de Pulford was born about 1340-1348 in Pulford, Cheshire, England 713 and died before 1396 in Cheshire, England 713.)
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