Sir Richard Molyneux 
Sir Richard was born about 1428 in Sefton, Lancastershire, England. Sir Richard's father was Sir Richard Molyneux and his mother was Joan Hagdon Haydock. His paternal grandparents were Richard Molyneux and Elinore Urswick. He had eight brothers and three sisters, named Sir Thomas, John, Robert, Henry, Gilbert, Edmund, William, Robert, Catherine, Genett and Elizabeth. He was the oldest of the twelve children. He had two half-sisters named Anne and Margaret. He died on September 23rd, 1459 in Battle of Bloore Heath, the war of Roses.General Notes
Sir Richard stood in such high favor with Henry VI that he was exempted from the act of resumption, as one of the ushers of the king's privy chambers in the Constableship of the king's Castle of Liverpool. He fell fighting under Lancasteral banner at Bloore Heath (23rd September, 1459). He also had by letters patent stewardship conferred upon him and sons and heirs of West Deryshire, the forrestship of our forest of Symonds Wood, and our parks of Croxteth, &c. He was afterwards knighted, and was slain at the battle of Bloore Heath, war of Roses, with Lord Audley, September 23, 1459-60.
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- b.~ 1285 in Sefton, Lancastershire, England d.06 Apr 1363
- b.~ 1305 in Sefton, Lancastershire, England d.1372 in Canterbury, England
- b.~ 1287 in Lardbrooke, Lancastershire, England d.< 1361
- b.~ 1325 in Sefton, Lancastershire, England
- b.~ 1275 in Wyersdale, Lancastershire, England
- b.~ 1307 in Wyersdale, Lancastershire, England
- b.~ 1360 in Sefton, Lancastershire, England
- b.~ 1260 in Upholland, Lancaster, England d.1311
- b.~ 1285 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.07 Oct 1328 in Beheaded at Boreham Wood, Essex, England
- b.~ 1260 in Salmesbury, Lancastershire, England d.> 1311
- b.~ 1326 in Upholland, Lancashire, England
- b.09 Oct 1267 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England d.25 Mar 1314 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1290 in Ashby Magna, Leicestershire, England d.31 May 1349 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1270 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England
- b.05 Oct 1396 in Sefton, Lancastershire, England d.1460 in Sefton, Lancastershire, England
- b.~ 1340
- b.~ 1370
- b.~ 1428 in Sefton, Lancastershire, England d.23 Sep 1459 in Battle of Bloore Heath, the war of Roses
- b.~ 1405 in Bradley, England d.17 JAN 1448/49 in Sefton, Lancastershire, England
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