Person:Robert le Grosvenor (1)

Sir Robert le Grosvenor
m. Est 1341
  1. Sir Robert le GrosvenorEst 1342 - 1396
m. Abt 1359
  • HSir Robert le GrosvenorEst 1342 - 1396
  • WJoan PulfordAbt 1347 -
m. Est 1372
  1. Cicely le GrosvenorEst 1373 -
  2. Sir Thomas GrosvenorAbt 1377 - 1429
Facts and Events
Name Sir Robert le Grosvenor
Gender Male
Birth[1] Est 1342 probably Cheshire, England
Marriage Abt 1359 to Margaret Danyers
Marriage Est 1372 to Joan Pulford
Occupation[2] Cheshire, Englandsheriff
Death[1] 22 Apr 1396 probably Cheshire, England
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley--Being an Account of His Career, His Ancestry, the Ancestry of His Two Wives, and His Relatives in England and New England, together with a Genealogy of His Descendants through the Seventh American Generation. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1933)
    page 7.

    'Sir Robert le Grosvenor, b. about 1342, d. 22 Apr. 1396; did homage 1373; served in France, 1359-60, under his father-in-law, Sir John Danyers, and in 1369-70 under the Black Prince; ...'

  2. Ormerod, George; William Smith; William Webb; and Peter Leycester. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, 1819 (London : Nichols, Son, and Bentley))
    3:87.

    In the family of "Raufe Grosvenour, esquire, 20 Edw. III. he died about the 30 Edw. III. 1356" and "Joane, wife of Raufe, 16 Edw. III. 1342" is listed "Sir Robert Grosvenour, knight, hee was sheriffe of Cheshire 12 Ric. II. 1388, and also 18 Ric. II. 1395, obiit 19 Ric. II."

  3.   Bird, W.H.B., The Grosvenor Myth, in Barron, Oswald (ed.). The Ancestor. (London: Archibald Constable)
    Volume 1, pp. 166-188.