Sir William de Moleyns

• Sir William de Moleyns1,2,3,4
• M, #16275, d. 14 February 1381
• Father Sir John de Moleyns, Treasurer of the King's Chamber3 d. bt 10 Mar 1359 - 1360
• Mother Gille (Egidia) Mauduit3 d. bt 21 Jan 1366 - 1367
• Sir William de Moleyns married Margery Bacoun, daughter of Sir Edmond Bacon, Constable of Wallingford Castle and Margery Poynings, before 1352; They had 1 son (Sir Richard) & 1 daughter (Isabel, wife of Sir Robert Morley).5,1,2,3,4 Sir William de Moleyns died on 14 February 1381 at of Stoke Poges & Datchet, Buckinghamshire, England.5,3
• Family Margery Bacoun b. c 1336, d. 1 Jun 1399
• Children
  • Sir Richard de Moleyns+5,1,3 b. b 1357, d. 14 Dec 1384
  • Isabel Moleyns+5,6,2,3,4 b. c 1367, d. b 1 Jun 1409
• Citations
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 152.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 181.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 107.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 154-155.
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 503-504.
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 518.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p542.htm#i... ________________
• Margery Poynings
• (c.1310-1349)
• 'Lady De La Beche of Aldworth'
• Born: circa 1310
• Died: 1349
• Margery was the daughter of Michael, Lord De Poynings. She was first married to Edmund Bacon, of Essex, who was descended from Sir John Bacon of Ewelme (Oxfordshire). She held the Manor of Hatfield Peverall, which Edward II had granted to Edmund Bacon in fee in 1310, for the term of her life, 'partly of the King and partly of the Earl of Hereford by homage, and the third part of a knight's fee and two pairs of gilt spurs of twelve pence price.' And she also held Cressing Hall or Cressinges, Essex.
• By her first husband, Margery had one daughter, Margery Bacon, born 1337, who married, in 1352, William De Molynes, son of Sir John De Molynes, and she had also a step-daughter Margaret Bacon - daughter of Edmund Bacon, by his first wife Joan De Braose - who married William, 2nd Baron Kerdeston, of Norfolk.
• .... etc.
• From: http://www.britannia.com/bios/ladies/mpoynings.html ________________
• The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Volume 1, The First Phase By Colin Richmond
• https://books.google.com/books?id=okEq7Lj1sloC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=...
  • 118 John de Dalton 'raped' and married her: CIPM Edward III,X. p. 77. For this reference and for many more which follow I am indebted to Terry Simmons, 'Paston v. Moleyns: the Case of Gresham', unpublished BA dissertation, Keele University, 1980. For the Moleynses of the fourteenth century, see CP. IX, pp. 36ff.
  • 119 CIPM Edward III, X. pp. 77-8 (the government was obliged to make an example of him: pp. 262-7); CCR 1349-1354, p. 450; H.A. Napier, Historical Notices of the Prishes of Swyncombe and Ewelme (London, 1858), pp. 21-4. This seems to have been an 'inside job': royal officers making a raid on a royal ward. Margery Poynings was Sir Edmund Bacon's second wife and the mother of Margery who married William Moleyns (CIPM Edward III, XI, pp. 11, 13); for the escheator Michael Poynings' marriage to William Moleyns' elder brother John's widow, see CCR 1369-74, pp. 47, 60, 175. .... etc. _________________
• Gresham is a village and civil parish in North Norfolk, England, five miles (8 km) south-west of Cromer.
• .... etc.
• Sir Edmund Bacon of Baconsthorpe held the manor.[4] After his death in 1336 or 1337, there was much fighting over his property, which included the manor of Gresham. A William Moleyns married Bacon's daughter Margery and tried unsuccessfully to deprive John Burghersh, the son of Bacon's other daughter and heiress Margaret, of his inheritance. A partition of Bacon's property was made between his heirs in the 35th year of King Edward III,[4] and when the division between Moleyns and Burghersh was complete, Gresham went to Margery, who died in 1399. She granted Gresham to Sir Philip Vache for nine years after her death, but in 1414 his widow still held it and Sir William Moleyns agreed to buy it from Margery's executors for 920 marks. He held it for two years, but did not complete the payment. The manor then fell into a complicated contract for the future marriage of Moleyns's daughter Katherine which did not take place, and Thomas Chaucer (c. 1367–1434), Speaker of the House of Commons, and the son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, acquired the manor of Gresham and sold it to William Paston. (Thomas Chaucer was married to a granddaughter of Maud Bacon, almost certainly another daughter of Edmund Bacon.[5]%29 However, Robert Hungerford, Lord Moleyns, then claimed it and seized it by force.[6][7]
• .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham,_Norfolk ______________

WILLIAM DE MOLEYNS, 2nd and only surviving son. In 1352 he was styled "King's yeoman," and on 28 April of that year had livery of his wife's inheritance. In October 1355, being styled chivaler, he was setting out for France for a month, and in December though still under age, he went to Scotland in the King's service. In May 1359 he was allowed to have his father's manors on condition of providing a suitable maintenance for his parents, because his father had demised them to him before his impeachment, and in September he was allowed to conduct his father from Nottingham to Cambridge Castle. In this year he went to France in the retinue of Roger ( de Mortimer), Earl of March. He had livery of his mother's lands in 1367, and in 1369 of the Mauduit lands; in Nov. 1367 was about, to go beyond seas on the King's service, and made a settlementof his estates. In Feb. 1368/9, staying beyond seas, he nominated attorneys; and in March 1370 was again bound for service. abroad. In 1377 he was to serve in Brittany under John of Gaunt, and from August to October in that year was at sea in the King's train, and was under orders for service abroad in August 1373. He was commissioner of array, and ofoyer and terminer, and justice of the peace in Bucks in 1377 and later, and in 1378 was a Knight of the Shire for that county, and in 1379 assessor of taxes.

He married, before 12 March 1352, Margery, then aged 15 1/2, daughter of Sir Edmund BACOUN, of Norfolk, by his 2nd wife, Margery POYNINGS, whose heir she was. He died 14 February 1380/1 . His widow died 1 June 1399.[Complete Peerage IX:39-40, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] 1

Sources: 1.Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Co kayne, Sutton Publishing Lt Page: IX:39-40 2.Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Co kayne, Sutton Publishing Lt Page: IX:40

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