Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Hugh de Lyme.
This relationship is given by Leycester (p. 305, 306). It is recorded in a grant cited below.
Mother: Emma.
Emma is given by Leycester as Hugh’s wife (p. 306).
Spouse: Agnes de Legh.
This relationship is given by Leycester (p. 305). It is recorded in documents cited below.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Thomas de Legh married Cecily.
Evidence
from the National Archives Catalogue (records from the Cheshire Archives, DLL 3 Schedule of Leigh Family Deeds):
DLL 3/3
Grant
By Richard son of Richard de Lehe to Richard son of Hugh de Limme of half a bovate of land etc. held by Gilbert son of Walter Becke in marriage with Agnes daur., of the grantor.
Witnesses:- Hugh de Limme and Thomas his brother, Adam de Lehe and Hugh his son Roger, parson of Limme (and others)
Endorsed "Grant of a messuage in High Legh - about 1260"
from Leycester (p. 305):
a. SCiant—Ego Ricardus Filius Ricardi de Legh dedi—Ricardo Filio Hugonis de Limme, dimidiam Bovatam Terrae (illam, quam Gilbertus Filius Walteri Bek tenuit) cùm Agnete Filiâ meâ in Libero Maritagio—&c. Testibus Hugone de Limme, Thomâ Fratre suo, Adâ de Lehe, Hugone Filio suo, Madiou de Sworton, Rogero Parsonâ de Limme,—&c. The Original now in possession of Legh de West-Hall, 1666. Lib. C. fol. 268. 30. Sub Hen. 3.
b. SCiant—Ego Agnes de Legh, quondàm Uxor Ricardi de Limme, in meâ propriâ viduitate dedi—Gilberto Glaive de eâdem Avunculo meo, pro Homagio & Servitio suo, totam medietatem de quodam Assarto quod vocatur Le Park, cùm Morâ quae vo∣catur Le Park-Moor,—&c. Reddendo inde annuatìm unum Par Cheirothecarum, vel unum Denarium, ad Nativitatem Sancti Johannis Baptistae, pro Omnibus—Testibus Domino Willielmo de Massy, Domino Johanne de Sonbach tùnc Rectore Ecclesiae de Rosthorne,—&c. Lib. C. fol. 270. 14. The Original in Possession of John Gleyve of High-Legh, 1666.
References
Beaumont, William. A Calendar of Ancient Family Charters preserved at Arley Hall, Cheshire. (1866).
Leycester, Peter, Sir. Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record. (1673)
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).