Richard de Legh

Events


Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.


Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.


Relationships


Father: William, son of Hamon de Legh of the West Hall in High Legh.

This relationship is given by Leycester (Ormerod 1:451). Helsby (Ormerod 1:454) discusses Hamon’s origin. Hamon is said to be descended from Gislebert de Venables, and may have been identical with Hamon de Venables, a younger son of Gilbert Venables, third baron of Kinderton.

Mother: unknown.


Spouse: unknown.


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 1:451.)


Richard de Legh.


Madoc.


Margery married Aytrop, son of Aytrop of Millington.


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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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