William de Lea

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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