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Robert de Legh

Male - Abt 1370


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Robert de Legh was born in of Adlington, Cheshire, England; died about 1370 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.

    Family/Spouse: Sybil de Honford. Sybil (daughter of Henry de Honford) died after 1335. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Robert de Legh  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Adlington, Cheshire, England; died on 11 Nov 1382.
    2. 3. Margaret de Legh  Descendancy chart to this point died after 1365.

    Family/Spouse: Maud de Norlegh. Maud (daughter of Thurstan de Northlegh and Margery de Walton) died after 1374. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. Piers Legh  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1360 in of Lyme in Handley, Cheshire, England; died on 10 Aug 1399 in Chester, Cheshire, England.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Robert de Legh Descendancy chart to this point (1.Robert1) was born in of Adlington, Cheshire, England; died on 11 Nov 1382.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Abt 1382

    Family/Spouse: Maud de Arderne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Robert de Legh  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Adlington, Cheshire, England; was christened on 2 Mar 1361 in Audley, Staffordshire, England; died in 1408.

  2. 3.  Margaret de Legh Descendancy chart to this point (1.Robert1) died after 1365.

    Family/Spouse: John de Ashton. John was born in of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England; died about 1360. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. John Assheton  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1354 in of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England; died about 1398.

  3. 4.  Piers Legh Descendancy chart to this point (1.Robert1) was born about 1360 in of Lyme in Handley, Cheshire, England; died on 10 Aug 1399 in Chester, Cheshire, England.

    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]

    Piers married Margaret Danyers on 26 Nov 1388. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Danyers and Isabel Baggiley) was born about 2 May 1348; died on 24 Jun 1428. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 7. Piers Legh  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1390 in of Lyme in Handley, Cheshire, England; died in 1422 in Paris, France; was buried in St. Michael's, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.


Generation: 3

  1. 5.  Robert de Legh Descendancy chart to this point (2.Robert2, 1.Robert1) was born in of Adlington, Cheshire, England; was christened on 2 Mar 1361 in Audley, Staffordshire, England; died in 1408.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft 1411

    Notes:

    Sheriff of Cheshire 1393-94; 1396-97; 1399-1400. Constable of the castle of Oswaldestre. Deputy steward and master of the forests of Cheshire, 1401.

    Family/Spouse: Isabella Belgrave. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Robert de Legh  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Adlington, Cheshire, England; died on 26 Sep 1415 in Harfleur, Normandy, France.

  2. 6.  John Assheton Descendancy chart to this point (3.Margaret2, 1.Robert1) was born about 1354 in of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England; died about 1398.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft 1392

    Notes:

    Also called John de Ashton. Knighted in 1377. "John de Ashton is said to have distinguished himself at the siege of Noyon in 1370, and represented the county in Parliament in 1382, 1388, and 1390." [VCH Lancaster, citation details below]

    History of Parliament (citation details below) gives his dates as a knight of the shire for Lancashire as Oct 1382, Sep 1388, and Jan 1390.

    John married Joan Radclyffe before 1366. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. John Assheton  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England; died on 3 Sep 1428.

  3. 7.  Piers Legh Descendancy chart to this point (4.Piers2, 1.Robert1) was born about 1390 in of Lyme in Handley, Cheshire, England; died in 1422 in Paris, France; was buried in St. Michael's, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.

    Notes:

    Fought at Agincourt, where he was wounded.

    Piers married Joan de Haydock about 1403. Joan (daughter of Gilbert de Haydock and Sibyl) died on 17 Jan 1440; was buried in Sefton, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 10. Peter Legh  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Jun 1415 in of Lyme in Handley, Cheshire, England; died in 1478 in Bradley-in-Burtonwood, Lancashire, England.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Robert de Legh Descendancy chart to this point (5.Robert3, 2.Robert2, 1.Robert1) was born in of Adlington, Cheshire, England; died on 26 Sep 1415 in Harfleur, Normandy, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 1410

    Notes:

    Died of the plague during the siege of Harfleur.

    Family/Spouse: Maud Belgrave. Maud was born about 1388; died in 1478. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 11. Robert Legh  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1410 in Adlington, Cheshire, England; was christened in 1410 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; died on 21 Jan 1479.

  2. 9.  John Assheton Descendancy chart to this point (6.John3, 3.Margaret2, 1.Robert1) was born in of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England; died on 3 Sep 1428.

    Notes:

    "John Assheton (II), of Ashton-under Lyne, co. Lancaster, entered the service of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in the 1380s, created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of John's son, Henry IV (1399), Knight of the Shire for Lancashire in the parliament of 1413, appointed Seneschal of Bayeux after its capture in 1416, born after 1338 (under-age in 1360), died 3 September 1428. This man's marriages, and particularly the maternity of his son Thomas, appear to be the object of some confusion. One source states that he married (1) Isabel Kirkby, granddaughter and heiress of Sir Richard Kirkby, implying that she was mother of his son Thomas, and (without explanation) makes him married (2) to ________. Another source states that he married (1) Jane, daughter of Sir John Savile, of Tankersleigh, and that she was mother of his son Thomas. The various accounts of this man agree however in making him marry finally, by 1420, Margaret, widow of Sir William Atherton and of Sir Maurice Berkeley, and daughter of Sir John Byron, of Clayton (by whom he was ancestor of the extinct house of Baronets Assheton of Middleton). He married by 1403 (if she was mother of his son Thomas), Isabel Kirkby, granddaughter and heiress of Sir Richard Kirkby." [John Blythe Dobson, citation details below]

    His History of Parliament (citation details below) entry says that he was a knight of the shire for Lancashire in 1411, May 1413, and March 1416.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 12. Thomas Assheton  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1403 in of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England; died after 9 Mar 1446.

  3. 10.  Peter Legh Descendancy chart to this point (7.Piers3, 4.Piers2, 1.Robert1) was born in Jun 1415 in of Lyme in Handley, Cheshire, England; died in 1478 in Bradley-in-Burtonwood, Lancashire, England.

    Notes:

    Fought on the Yorkist side at Wakefield, for which he was made a knight banneret by Richard, duke of York, father of Edward IV.

    Peter married Margaret Molyneux between 1430 and 1432. Margaret (daughter of Richard Molyneux and Ellen Radcliffe) died on 13 May 1460 in Bradley-in-Burtonwood, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 13. Peter Legh  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Lyme in Handley, Cheshire, England; died about 1468 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England; was buried in Winwick, Cheshire, England.


Generation: 5

  1. 11.  Robert Legh Descendancy chart to this point (8.Robert4, 5.Robert3, 2.Robert2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1410 in Adlington, Cheshire, England; was christened in 1410 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; died on 21 Jan 1479.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 1478

    Family/Spouse: Isabel Stanley. Isabel (daughter of William Stanley and Blanche Arderne) was born about 1410. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 14. Maud Legh  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 15. Isabel Legh  Descendancy chart to this point

  2. 12.  Thomas Assheton Descendancy chart to this point (9.John4, 6.John3, 3.Margaret2, 1.Robert1) was born about 1403 in of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England; died after 9 Mar 1446.

    Notes:

    "Shortly after his father's death, evidently because of animosity toward his step-mother, he kidnapped his younger half-brother and refused to release him. He was still alive in 1446, in which year he, in company with Edmund de Trafford (father of John Trafford, who married Thomas's daughter Elizabeth), was granted a licence from the crown dated 9 March 1446 (24 Hen. VI), 'encouraging [them] … to pursue their experiments in alchemy, and forbidding any subject of the king to molest them' (in the words of a modern paraphrase). He and his wife (who was his stepmother’s sister) are said to have had eleven children." [John Blythe Dobson, citation details below]

    Thomas married Elizabeth Byron in 1415. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 16. Elizabeth Assheton  Descendancy chart to this point

  3. 13.  Peter Legh Descendancy chart to this point (10.Peter4, 7.Piers3, 4.Piers2, 1.Robert1) was born in of Lyme in Handley, Cheshire, England; died about 1468 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England; was buried in Winwick, Cheshire, England.

    Peter married Mabel Croft before 1455. Mabel (daughter of James Croft) died in 1475. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 17. Peter Legh  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1455 in of Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; died on 11 Aug 1527 in Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; was buried in Winwick, Lancashire, England.


Generation: 6

  1. 14.  Maud Legh Descendancy chart to this point (11.Robert5, 8.Robert4, 5.Robert3, 2.Robert2, 1.Robert1)

    Family/Spouse: John Mainwaring. John (son of William Mainwaring and Ellen Boteler) was born in of Over Peover, Bucklow, Cheshire, England; died on 8 Jul 1495. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 18. Agnes Mainwaring  Descendancy chart to this point died on 2 May 1560.

  2. 15.  Isabel Legh Descendancy chart to this point (11.Robert5, 8.Robert4, 5.Robert3, 2.Robert2, 1.Robert1)

    Isabel married George Holford in 1473. George (son of Thomas Holford and Maud Bulkeley) was born in of Holford, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 19. John Holford  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Holford, Cheshire, England; died about 1546.

  3. 16.  Elizabeth Assheton Descendancy chart to this point (12.Thomas5, 9.John4, 6.John3, 3.Margaret2, 1.Robert1)

    Family/Spouse: John de Trafford. John (son of Edmund de Trafford and Alice Venables) was born in of Trafford, Lancashire, England; died on 20 Jan 1489. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 20. Edmund Trafford  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1454 in of Trafford, Lancashire, England; died on 15 Aug 1513.

  4. 17.  Peter Legh Descendancy chart to this point (13.Peter5, 10.Peter4, 7.Piers3, 4.Piers2, 1.Robert1) was born about 1455 in of Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; died on 11 Aug 1527 in Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; was buried in Winwick, Lancashire, England.

    Notes:

    He was present at the siege of Berwick in 1482, where he was made a knight banneret by Edward IV. In 1511 he entered into holy orders and became a priest.

    "Sir Piers Legh, kt. and priest, died in 1527 holding [the manor of Dalton], with land in Dalton and Aykbank, of the king as of his duchy by a rent of 10s." [VCH Lancaster, citation details below]

    Peter married Ellen Savage about 1467. Ellen (daughter of John Savage, Mayor of Chester and Katherine Stanley) died on 17 May 1491 in Bewganet, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 21. Peter Legh  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1479 in of Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; died on 4 Dec 1541 in Bradley-in-Burtonwood, Lancashire, England.


Generation: 7

  1. 18.  Agnes Mainwaring Descendancy chart to this point (14.Maud6, 11.Robert5, 8.Robert4, 5.Robert3, 2.Robert2, 1.Robert1) died on 2 May 1560.

    Family/Spouse: Robert Needham. Robert (son of William Needham and Isabel Bromley) was born in of Shavington in Adderley, Shropshire, England; died on 4 Jun 1556. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 22. Thomas Needham  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1510 in of Cranage, Cheshire, England; died before 1556.

  2. 19.  John Holford Descendancy chart to this point (15.Isabel6, 11.Robert5, 8.Robert4, 5.Robert3, 2.Robert2, 1.Robert1) was born in of Holford, Cheshire, England; died about 1546.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Abt 1545

    Notes:

    Also called John Holforde, Holdford. Sheriff of Flintshire; justice of the peace for Cheshire. According to Ormerod he was also sheriff of Cheshire in about 1541.

    John married Margery Brereton about 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 23. Thomas Holford  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Holford, Cheshire, England; died on 24 Sep 1569.

  3. 20.  Edmund Trafford Descendancy chart to this point (16.Elizabeth6, 12.Thomas5, 9.John4, 6.John3, 3.Margaret2, 1.Robert1) was born about 1454 in of Trafford, Lancashire, England; died on 15 Aug 1513.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1453, of Trafford, Lancashire, England
    • Alternate death: 1514

    Notes:

    Knight of the Bath in 1493.

    Edmund married Margaret Savage after 1480. Margaret (daughter of John Savage, Mayor of Chester and Katherine Stanley) died after Aug 1513. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 24. Margery Trafford  Descendancy chart to this point died on 10 May 1540.
    2. 25. Edmund Trafford  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1485 in of Trafford, Lancashire, England; died on 28 Jun 1533.

  4. 21.  Peter Legh Descendancy chart to this point (17.Peter6, 13.Peter5, 10.Peter4, 7.Piers3, 4.Piers2, 1.Robert1) was born about 1479 in of Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; died on 4 Dec 1541 in Bradley-in-Burtonwood, Lancashire, England.

    Notes:

    According to Frank Renaud (citation details below), he was "afflicted with lameness."

    Peter married Jane Gerard before 1488. Jane (daughter of Peter Gerard and Margery Stanley) died on 5 May 1510. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Peter married Margaret de Tyldesley about 17 Jan 1514. Margaret was born in of Tyldesley, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 26. Jane Legh  Descendancy chart to this point was born after 1513; died after 20 Nov 1575 in Bromley, Staffordshire, England.


Generation: 8

  1. 22.  Thomas Needham Descendancy chart to this point (18.Agnes7, 14.Maud6, 11.Robert5, 8.Robert4, 5.Robert3, 2.Robert2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1510 in of Cranage, Cheshire, England; died before 1556.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: of Shavington in Adderley, Shropshire, England

    Thomas married Anne Talbot on 1 Feb 1526. Anne (daughter of John Talbot and Margaret Troutbeck) was born between 1510 and 1515. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 27. Robert Needham  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1535 in of Shavington in Adderley, Shropshire, England; died before 18 Dec 1603; was buried on 18 Dec 1603 in Adderley, Shropshire, England.

  2. 23.  Thomas Holford Descendancy chart to this point (19.John7, 15.Isabel6, 11.Robert5, 8.Robert4, 5.Robert3, 2.Robert2, 1.Robert1) was born in of Holford, Cheshire, England; died on 24 Sep 1569.

    Notes:

    According to Royal Ancestry (citation details below), Thomas Holford and Jane Booth were married by dispensation, being related in the 3rd equal and 3rd and 4th mixed degrees of affinity. What we can see is that Jane Booth was a G3-granddaughter of Maud Swynnerton (b. 1370) by her third wife John Savage, and Thomas Holford was a G4-grandson of Maud by her second wife William Ipstones.

    Thomas married Joan Booth after 28 Jun 1539. Joan (daughter of William Booth and Ellen Montgomery) was born about 1500; died after 5 Nov 1545. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 28. Dorothy Holford  Descendancy chart to this point

  3. 24.  Margery Trafford Descendancy chart to this point (20.Edmund7, 16.Elizabeth6, 12.Thomas5, 9.John4, 6.John3, 3.Margaret2, 1.Robert1) died on 10 May 1540.

    Margery married Thomas Gerard before 19 Aug 1511. Thomas (son of Peter Gerard and Margery Stanley) was born about 1488 in of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; died on 7 Nov 1523 in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 29. William Gerard  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of the New Hall in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; died before 1567.
    2. 30. Thomas Gerard  Descendancy chart to this point was born between 1502 and 1512 in of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; died after 1550.

  4. 25.  Edmund Trafford Descendancy chart to this point (20.Edmund7, 16.Elizabeth6, 12.Thomas5, 9.John4, 6.John3, 3.Margaret2, 1.Robert1) was born about 1485 in of Trafford, Lancashire, England; died on 28 Jun 1533.

    Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Longford. Elizabeth died on 27 Jan 1548. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 31. Cecily Trafford  Descendancy chart to this point

  5. 26.  Jane Legh Descendancy chart to this point (21.Peter7, 17.Peter6, 13.Peter5, 10.Peter4, 7.Piers3, 4.Piers2, 1.Robert1) was born after 1513; died after 20 Nov 1575 in Bromley, Staffordshire, England.

    Notes:

    Richardson's Royal Ancestry (citation details below) (3:83; 3:557) makes Jane Legh a daughter of Piers Legh and his first wife, Jane Gerard. But that would make Jane Leigh and Thomas Gerard--who are noted as having been second cousins through common Savage ancestry--into first cousins, both grandchildren of Peter Gerard and Margaret Stanley. John Blythe Dobson (citation details below) says that "there is no doubt" that Jane Legh who married Thomas Gerard was a daughter, not of Piers Legh's first wife Jane Gerard, but rather his second wife Margaret de Tyldesley, and this seems more plausible.

    Jane married Thomas Gerard before 1522, and was divorced on 27 Nov 1550. Thomas (son of Thomas Gerard and Margery Trafford) was born between 1502 and 1512 in of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; died after 1550. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 32. Katherine Gerard  Descendancy chart to this point died before 1575.


 

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