Paternal Family Tree: Middleton
In 1541 [his father] Richard Myddelton [aged 32] and [his mother] Jane Dryhurst [aged 16] were married. They had nine sons and seven daughters.
Around 1563 Robert Myddelton was born to Richard Myddelton [aged 54] and Jane Dryhurst [aged 38] at Denbigh Castle where his father was governor. He was their seventh son.
On 31st December 1565 [his mother] Jane Dryhurst [aged 40] died. Brass memorial at St Marcella's Church, Denbigh [Map].
On 8th February 1575 [his father] Richard Myddelton [aged 66] died. Brass memorial at St Marcella's Church, Denbigh [Map].
Richard Myddelton: Before 1509 he was born to Fulke Myddelton of Llansannan. In 1541 Richard Myddelton and Jane Dryhurst were married. They had nine sons and seven daughters. In 1542 Richard Myddelton was elected MP Denbigh Boroughs. In 1563 Humphrey Llwyd aka Lluyd lived at Denbigh Castle by permission of Sir John Salusbury [Note. Some sources say Richard Myddelton] who was then the Lord of the Manor of Denbigh.
In 1582 Robert Myddelton [aged 19] was apprenticed to Eramus Harby 2nd Baronet of the Worshipful Company of Skinners.
On 27th July 1591 Robert Myddelton [aged 28] and Margaret Mounsell were married.
In 1604 Robert Myddelton [aged 41] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In May 1604 Robert Myddelton [aged 41] acquired the receivership of Crown lands in Dorset and Somerset from Alderman Thomas Smythe [aged 46], but he quickly passed them onto Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex [aged 29].
In 1610 [his wife] Margaret Mounsell died.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1616 Robert Myddelton [aged 53] died.
Great x 1 Grandfather: David Myddelton
Grandfather: Fulke Myddelton of Llansannan
father: Richard Myddelton
Grandfather: Hugh Dryhurst of Denbigh
mother: Jane Dryhurst