John Legh

Also known as John Venables.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Living: 1296, 1338.

The dates come from Ormerod (1:499).

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Sir William Venables.

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

Mother: Agnes de Legh.

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

Spouse: Ellen, daughter of Thomas de Corona.

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

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).