Family/Spouse: Beaumont, Eleanor. Eleanor was born in 1363 in Buckinghamshire, England; died in 1476 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LD7X-5GY
• Appointments / Titles: 8 Apr 1413, England; Knighted on the eve of King Henry V’s coronation
• Appointments / Titles: Apr 1414, Wiltshire, England; Member of Parliment
• Appointments / Titles: Between 18 Feb 1419 and Jul 1423, England; Held position of justice of the peace
• Appointments / Titles: Nov 1419, England; Commissioned to raise royal loans
• Appointments / Titles: Between Jan 1420 and Apr 1421, England; Commissioned to raise royal loans

Notes:

William Moleyns
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Sir William Moleyns (1378–1425), from Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician.
He was born on 7 January 1378, son of Sir Richard Moleyns and Eleanor de Beaumont.

Career
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Wiltshire in April 1414.

Marriage and family
Sir William married Margery Whalesborough.[2] They had one son and one daughter.
William Moleyns junior was born in December 1405 and died during the siege of Orleans on 8 May 1429.
Katherine Moleyns married Sir John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk

Death and Memorial
He died on 8 June 1425[3] and was buried at St Giles, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, where on the north side of the altar on a memorial brass are the effigies of a knight and his lady with their Arms and an inscription. The inscription in Latin reads "Hic jacet Will'ms Molyns, Miles, qui obijt viij die Mens' Junii A. d'ni MCCCCXXV, -Et d'na Marg'ria ux' ei' qo'r' a'hi's p'piciet' de' amen". (Some of the abbreviations: A. - Anno, ux' - uxoris). A partial modern English translation is: "Here lies Williams Molyns, Knight, who died the eighth of the Month of
June in the Year of our Lord 1425, and of our Lady Margeria wife ...." Margery his widow died on 26 March 1439.

Above the heads of the knight and lady are their coats of arms: The Arms over the lady are blazoned: Or, three piles wavy Gules (Ancient Molyns), impaling Argent, three bends Gules within a bordure Sable bezantée (Whalesborough). The Arms over the knight are blazoned: Or, three piles wavy Gules (Ancient Molyns).[4]

References
1. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.ogr /volume/1386-1421/member/moleyns-si-rwilliam-1378-1425
2. Yorkist Lord: John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, C. 1425 -1485 by Anne Crawford p1.1
3. The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Volume 1, The First Phase, by Colin Richmond p.50
4. Find-a-Grave: Sir William Moleyns (https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=120536476)
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William married Whalesborough, Margery Anne on 29 Sep 1405 in England. Margery (daughter of Whalesborough, Sir John and de Whalesborough, Margret, daughter of Whalesborough, John II and Raleigh, Joan) was born in 1381 in Whalesborough, Cornwall, England; died on 26 Mar 1439 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England; was buried in 1439 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LRGH-LCD

Notes:

William Moleyns junior was born in December 1405 and died during the siege of Orleans on 8 May 1429.

William married on 18 May 1423 in Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Duchess
• Appointments / Titles: Duchess of Norfolk
• FSID: LRTH-5LJ

Catherine married Howard, Lord Duke John in 1440 in England. John (son of Howard, Sir Robert and de Mowbray, Margaret) was born in 1420 in Tendring, Essex, England; died on 22 Aug 1485 in Bosworth Field, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 31 Aug 1485 in Thetford Abbey, Thetford, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]