• General Notes

  The son of Adam and Annora. He was born in about 1135. Of Little Crosby. He married Beatrix (Beatrice) de Villers in about 1153. She was born in about 1138 in Little Crosby. She was the daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Villiers, the son of Richard de Villiers, a crusader under Edward I, of Little. He became the Lord of Little Crosby. Beatrix had been ambitious to be a queen and was in love with King John. She was loath to leave him, but was given by the King in marriage in 1158 to Robert, one of his Barons. She bitterly cursed the House of Molyneux and all that bore the name, calling down maledictions of misery, blasting their loves with tragedy.
  Descending from the issue of this marriage were the Earls of Sefton, Ireland, Teversall, and Nottinghamshire.
  Beatrix was born about 1138.
  

Details of Robert's family with Beatrice de Villiers