Robert de Legh (died 1479)

Of Adlington

Events

Place of Birth: Adlington, Cheshire.

The place is given by Ormerod (3:661)

Date of Baptism: 1410.

The date is given by Ormerod (3:661). Robert is stated to be 5 years old on 3 May 1415.

Date of Death: 21 January 1479.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Helsby (3:657), citing the inquisition post mortem.

Relationships

Father: Robert de Legh.

Mother: Matilda.

These relationships are given by Ormerod (3:656).

Spouse: Isabel Savage. Married before 3 May 1415.

The relationship and date are given by Ormerod (3:657), with some doubt. It is confirmed by the entry from the Lateran Regesta given below.

Spouse: Isabel Stanley. Married about 1424.

A dispensation for this marriage is recorded in an entry in the Lateran Regesta given below.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Robert Legh (born about 1428 - died 8 December 1486) married Ellen Bothe.

James Legh, rector of Ronthesthorne.

Peter Legh

Reginold Legh

William Legh

Margaret Legh married (1) Thomas Mere of Mere; married (2) Robert Reddish of Catteral

Margery Legh married William Davenport of Bramall.

Elizabeth Legh married Robert de Dukenfeld.

Douce Legh

Isabel Legh married (1) Laurence Wareyn of Poynton; married (2) Sir George Holford of Holford.

Matilda Legh married John Mainwaring of Peover.

Ellen Legh married John Pigott of Chetwynd.

Agnes Legh married Sir Andrew Brereton of Brereton.

Evidence

from the Lateran Regesta (243: 1423-4):

1424.   7 Kal. Sept.  Frascati.  (f. 240.)

To the bishop of Lichfield. Mandate to dispense Robert de Legh, donsel, and Isabel Stanley, daughter of William Stanley, knight, of his diocese, to contract and solemnize marriage notwithstanding an impediment of quasi-affinity (impedimentum publice honestatis justicie) arising from the fact that the said Robert, when in or about his fifth year, and the late Isabel Savage (related to the above Isabel Stanley in the second degree of kindred), when in her seventh year, contracted espousals, the said Isabel Savage dying after cohabiting for eight years with Robert (insimul cohabitaverat carnali copula inter eos non secuta). Oblate nobis. 

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).