Robert de Legh (died about 1415)

Of Adlington

Events

Date of Birth: about 1386.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Robert was aged 22 at his father’s death.

Date of Death: 26 September 1415.

Place of Death: before Harfleur.

Robert is said to have died of the pestilence five days after the surrender of Harfleur.

Relationships

Father: Sir Robert de Legh.

Mother: Isabel de Belgreve.

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

Spouse: Matilda.

The relationship is given by Ormerod (3:656). Matilda later married William de Honford about 1416, and died in 1478 aged about 90.

Children:

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

Robert de Legh (1410 - 1479) married (1) Isabel Savage in 1415; married (2) Isabel de Stanley.

Ellen de Legh married Roger de Legh of Ridge.

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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