Events
Date of Birth: about 1258.
Place of Birth: unknown.
William was thirty years old in 1288 (Lancashire VCH 7:sub Lea, Ashton, Ingol and Cottam fn 21).
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Sir Henry de Lea.
This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (7:sub Lea, Ashton, Ingol and Cottam).
(possible) Mother: Agnes.
Agnes is named as Sir Henry’s widow by the Lancashire VCH (7:sub Lea, Ashton, Ingol and Cottam fn 25).
Spouse: Clemency Banastre.
This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (7:sub Lea, Ashton, Ingol and Cottam) and by Ormerod (2:574).
Children:
Sibyl de Lea married Sir Richard de Hoghton.
Sir Henry de Lea (executed 1315).
References
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7 (Victoria County Histories, 1912).
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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).