Peter Corbet of Leigh

Events 

Date of Birth: probably after 1419.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Peter’s parents were probably married about this date.

Date of Death: after 1500.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Thomas Corbet of Leigh.

This relationship is attested in a 1480 case in the Common Pleas (see Thomas’s page).

Mother: Isabel Burley.

See Thomas Corbet’s page for this relationship.

Spouse: Elizabeth Brereton.

This relationship is given in the Corbet Pedigree in the 1624 Shropshire Visitation.

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Mary was perhaps more likely a daughter of Peter’s father Thomas.)

Thomas Corbet of Leigh married Jane Kynaston.

John Corbet senior married [1] Joan ferch Hywel ap Dafydd; married [2] Gwenllian Gwyn ferch Thomas ap Rhys.

Richard Corbet

Edmund Corbet of Hampton married Gwen ferch Hoelle Vychan of Lwydearche

John Corbet junior of Newton, Shropshire married Anna Belgrave.

(possibly) Mary Corbet married Thomas Cludd.

Evidence

from the Calendar of Patent Rolls:

1484  July 18

Commission to Thomas Hoord, esquire, sheriff of Salop, and Thomas Mitton esquire, to arrest Peter Corbet of Lye, esquire, and bring him before the king and council in the octaves of Michaelmas next.

from the IPM of Edward Trussell:

1500

Lands and tenements in Wistanstowe, worth 11s. 8d., held of Peter Corbet, lord of Sibton, as of his manor of Sibton, by fealty and 13s. 4d. rent, for all service.

References

Corbet, Augusta Elizabeth Brickdale. The Family of Corbet: Its Life and Times v. 2 (1915).

Herbert, Florentia C. “The History of Wrockwardine” in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 4th series v. 8, pt. 2 (1922). 

A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11. (Victoria County History, 1985).

The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614, with many descents of the same county (Harleian Society, 1871). 

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623. Paul Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands, eds. (London, 1889).

Will of John Salter. Proved 1532 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls. (1905).