Robert le Grosvenor

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁵²⁵
Robert le Grosvenor is the earliest member of this family. He received a grant of Budworth in Cheshire from the Earl of Chester, Hugh Kevelioc. His wife was named Alice, and they had two sons, Randle and Robert.

~The Bulkeley Geneology, pg. 6

• Background Information. ^525,805
Robert le Grosvenor, who got Over-Lostock from Hugh, Earl of Chester, was the son of Gilbert le Grosvenor*, who came to England, A.D. 1066, with William, the Conqueror. Robert was succeeded by Henry le Grosvenor, his son and heir, who was in turn followed by his son Raufe le Grosvenor.

~Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. V, pgs 241

*Gilbert le Grosvenor is a mythical person. [W.H.B. Bird, "The Grosvenor Myth", The Ancestor, 1902, vol. 1, pp.166-188; vol 2, pp. 129-55.]