Piers Legh

Abt 1360 - 1399  (~ 39 years)

• Name	Piers Legh  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1360	of Lyme in Handley, Cheshire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Aug 1399	Chester, Cheshire, England   [2, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I35886	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LD
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert de Legh,   b. of Adlington, Cheshire, England d. Abt 1370, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England
  Mother	Maud de Norlegh   d. Aft 1374
  Family ID	F21048	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Danyers,   b. Abt 2 May 1348   d. 24 Jun 1428 (Age ~ 80 years)
  Marriage	26 Nov 1388  [2, 5, 6]
  Notes	Married with dispensation.
  Children	+ 1. Piers Legh,   b. Abt 1390, of Lyme in Handley, Cheshire, England d. 1422, Paris, France (Age ~ 32 years)
  Family ID	F21085	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was "executed 10 August 1399 at Chester by Henry Bolingbroke, on account of his support of Richard II, his 'mutilated body' being consigned to the Carmelite Friars of Chester for burial." [John Blythe Dobson, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S413] Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson. [S5947] Contributions toward a History of the Ancient Parish of Prestbury by Frank Renaud. Contained in Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, volume 97 (1876), published by the Chetham Society., place only. [S1129] The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms. Edited by John Paul Rylands. London: 1882., year only. [S5947] Contributions toward a History of the Ancient Parish of Prestbury by Frank Renaud. Contained in Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, volume 97 (1876), published by the Chetham Society., year only. [S77] The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester by George Ormerod. Second edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882., month and year only.