Richard Moleyns 
Richard was born about 1353 in Stokes Poge, Buckinghamshire, England.1 Richard's father was William de Moleyns and his mother was Margery Bacon. His maternal grandparents were Edmund Bacon and Margery Poynings. He was an only child. He died on December 14th, 1384.2 General Notes
ELEANOR DE BEAUMONT (alleged daughter). She married RICHARD DE MOLEYNS, Knt., of Stoke Poges, Ludgershall, etc., co. Buckingham, commissioner of oyer and terminer for Buckinghamshire, son and heir of William de Moleyns, of Stoke Poges, Datchet, etc., co. Buckingham, king’s yeoman, Knight of the Shire for Buckinghamshire, by Margery, daughter of Edmund Bacon, Knt.. He was born before 1357 (of age in or before 1378). They had one son, William, Knt., and one daughter, Isabel.
He was captured by the Scots at some time, and had to fell his timber to pay his ransom. In 1378 he confirmed a feoffment made by his father. He was beyond seas in 1381 at his father’s death, but livery of his lands was granted in his absence. SIR RICHARD DE MOLEYNS died 14 Dec. 1384.
Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forefeited and Extinct Peerages (1883), pg. 370 (wife identified as Eleanor Beaumont). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 305-306 (Moleyns arms: Sable a chief argent with three lozenges gules therein). C.P. 9 (1936): 41 (sub Moleyns). Roskell 3 (1992): 753-754 (biog. of Sir William Moleyns). VCH Oxford 13 (1996): 66-67.
With permission from Douglas Richardson from his forthcoming book, Plantagenet
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stolp&id=I18576
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1320 d.1381
- b.~ 1353 in Stokes Poge, Buckinghamshire, England d.14 Dec 1384
- b.~ 1234 in Lodie, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1254 in Baconsthorpe, Erpingham, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1234 in Letheringsett, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1272 in Baconsthorpe, Erpingham, Norfolk, England d. in Oulton, Mitford, Suffolk, England
- b.1236 in Sutton Bingham, Melcombe, Dorset, England d.1304 in Sutton Bingham, Melcombe, Dorset, England
- b.~ 1256 in Thorpe Cooke, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1236 in Bingham's Melcombe, Dorsetshire, England
- b.~ 1290 d.1337 in Ewelme, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1234 in West Felton, Oswestry, Shropshire, England
- b.~ 1255 in West Felton, Oswestry, Shropshire, England
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- b.~ 1272 in West Felton, Oswestry, Shropshire, England d.1354
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- b.~ 1320 d.01 Jun 1399
- b.1201 d.24 Sep 1272
- b.1231 d.08 Jun 1294
- b.1205 d.Sep 1251
- b.1273 d.24 Jun 1314
- b.15 Feb 1235
- b.25 Mar 1258 d.1323
- b.1235 d.14 May 1292
- b.~ 1300 in Poynings, Sussex, England d.>30 Mar 1347
- b.1231 d.01 Dec 1289
- b.29 Sep 1259 d.Sep 1304
- b.1231 d.1295
- b.1280 d.Feb 1333
- b.15 Feb 1235
- b.25 Mar 1258 d.1323
- b.1235 d.14 May 1292
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Details of Richard's family with Eleanor Beaumont
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=stolp&id=I18576
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=arciek&id=I21799&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=arciek&id=I21799&style=TABLE
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