Sir Robert Foulshurst Knight

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition,133B:37, father of Cecily Foulshurst, married to Sir Thomas Gerard. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁷³
About 1300, Joan, the eldest daughter of Thomas Crewe, the last male heir of the elder branch of the family, married Richard Praers, whos granddaughter brought Crewe, in marriage, to Sir Robert Fulleshurst or Foulshurst, one of Lord Audley's Esquires at the battle of Poictiers. Sir Christopher Hatton purchased it of the Foulshurts in 1578.

~Collin's Peerage of England, Vol. IX, p. 326,

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
Sir Robert Foulshurst of Crue, Knight, son and heir, born at Over Pever, at age 21 in 18 Henry VI, and living 14 Edward 4. He married Joan, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Vernon of Shipbrook, Knight, as well as heir to her mother Eleanor. Robert's obituray was dated 1498 and his inquisition post mortem took place in 14 Henry VII.
Children given by Ormerod are:
• Thomas Fouleshurt of Crue, son and heir, was in London in 1498, and his inquisition post mortem took place 14 Henry VII. He married Anne. Their eldest son was named Robert Fouleshurst and he married Joan, of the family of Molyneux.
• Henry Foulshurst
• William Foulshurst
• John Foulshurst
• Randul Foulshurst, m. to Ann
• Robert Foulhurst, rector of Barthomley, 14 Edward IV
• Ann Foulshurst, living 8 Henry VII

~George Ormerod's History of County Palatine and City of Chester, p. 302, 306

Robert married Joan de Vernon, daughter of Sir Richard de Vernon and Eleanor de Hulse. (Joan de Vernon was born in Shipbrook, Northwich, Cheshire, England.)