Of Adlington
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: about 1370.
Place of Death: unknown.
Ormerod (3:661) states that Robert died about 44 Edward III. Helsby (3:655) states that he died before 49 Edward III.
Relationships
Father: John de Venables alias de Legh.
Mother: Elen.
These relationships are given by Helsby (3:654).
Spouse: Sybil de Honford.
This relationship is given by Helsby (3:654). In the Legh pedigree (3:661) Sibyl is said to be a daughter of Henry de Honford, but in the Honford pedigree (3:644), she appears to be a widow of Henry's son John de Honford.
Spouse: Matilda de Norley.
This relationship is given by Helsby (3:655).
Children (by Sybil):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Robert de Legh (died November 1382) married Matilda de Arderne.
a daughter married William de Radcliffe.
Children (by Matilda):
Piers de Legh married Margaret Danyers. Ancestor of the Leghs of Lyme.
John de Legh (died 1407)
Hugh de Legh
Margaret de Legh married Sir John Ashton.
Matilda married Ralph Wilberham of Radnor.
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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).