Robert le Grosvenor

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1347, of Hulme, Cheshire, England
• Alternate birth: Bef 1352

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Sheriff of Chester 1389, 1394-95. Loser in the celebrated Scrope v Grosvenor heraldic dispute.

"Sir Robert, we already know, while still a minor, married a daughter of Sir John Danyell, or Danyers, and accompanied his father-in-law to France in 1359-60. His subsequent services, under the Black Prince and Sir James Audley, come just ten years later; but he may have spent much or all of the intervening period in Guienne, as he did not pay homage to the abbot for his lands in Lostock until 1373. He was then a widower, his wife Margaret having died in June 1370, as he himself states in 1391, when called to prove the age of John, son of Sir Thomas Ardern, the occasion on which he gave his age as fifty. By a second marriage with Joan, the heiress of Pulford, he considerably improved the position of the family, securing with her a title to the manor of Pulford, an estate in Dunham Massey, and other lands besides; but, in consequence of subsisting life interests, the bulk of this property was first enjoyed by their son Sir Thomas Grosvenor, who was born in 1377." ["The Grosvenor Myth", citation details below.]

Robert married Joan de Pulford about 1378. Joan (daughter of Robert de Pulford and Jane) was born about 1347 in of Pulford, Cheshire, England; died before 22 Jun 1396. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas le Grosvenor was born in of Hulme, Cheshire, England; died in 1429.

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1322, of Hulme, Cheshire, England

Ralph married Joan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Emma de Mobberley before 1323. Emma (daughter of William de Mobberley and Maude Downes) died before 1367. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1366

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Also called Emma de Modburlegh.

Emma (living 1366), daughter and coheir of William de Modburlegh. [Burke's Peerage]

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• Alternate death: 1328, Great Budworth, Cheshire, England

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"As sheriff of Chester he witnesses two deeds (dated 1-5 Edward II., between 1307 and 1312) now in the Record Office, but he has not been included either in the official list of sheriffs or in Ormerod's." ["The Grosvenor Myth", citation details below.]

Accompanied William de Mobberly in arms in Edward II's war against the Scots.

Robert married Margery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sheriff of Cheshire 1319-1320.

William married Maude Downes. Maude (daughter of Robert Downes and Margaret Fitton) was born in of Chorlegh, Cheshire, England; died after 1347. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]