Ellen de Corona

Also known as Ellen de Coroun and Ellen Legh

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Living: 1296.

This date is given by Ormerod (1:499).

Date of Death: about 1352.

Place of Death: unknown.

Ellen’s inquisition post mortem was taken 26 Edward 3 (Ormerod 1:499).

Relationships

Father: uncertain.

Helsby (Ormerod 3:654) gives Ellen's parents as Hugh de Corona and his wife Lucy, calling this “not improbable”. Ormerod (1:499) gives Ellen’s father as Thomas de Corona, who Helsby shows was probably of a later generation. Hugh was the son of Hugh de Corona and Anabell, daughter of Sir Thomas de Baumville. Renaud (pp. 78-9) makes Ellen the daughter of Sir William Baggiley, who Renaud states was the second husband of Lucy the daughter of Hugh de Corona and Anabell. Renaud states that Sir William and Lucy also had a son, who died without issue, and another daughter, Isabel, who married Sir John de Hyde. Baines (4:386) states that Renaud's construction of the family is in error.

Mother: Lucy

This relationship is given by Helsby (Ormerod 3:654) and by Baines (4:386), who states that Lucy possibly married secondly Sir William de Baggalegh.

Spouse: John Legh.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (1:499).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Ormerod 1:499.)

Sir John Legh married Maud Arderne; also married Isabel Bagginton.

Robert Legh married Sibille.

Sir William Legh.

Peter Legh married Ellen, daughter of Philip de Bechton.

Gilbert Legh.

Agnes married Hugh de Mascy of Timperley.

References

Baines, Edward. The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (revised and edited by James Croston), (London, 1891).

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).

Renaud, Frank. Contributions towards a History of the Ancient Parish of Prestbury in Cheshire in Remains Historical & Literary connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester Vol. 97 (Chetham Society, 1876).