Robert Legh (abt. 1410 - 1479)

Born about 1410 in Adlington, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Isabel Savage — married before 26 Sep 1415 in Cheshire, England

Husband of Isabel (Stanley) Legh — married after 26 Aug 1424 in Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 1479 at about age 69 in Adlington, Cheshire, England

Biography

Robert de Legh of Adlington was born in 1410 [he was said at his father's inquisition on 2 November, 1415, to be five years old^[1]].

His father was Robert de Legh, of Adlynton.^[1]

Before his father's death in 1415, Robert's father married him, aged four, to Isabel Savage,^[1] who was six years old.^[2]

On 7th day before the Kalends of September, 1424, which was 26 August, at Frascati, Pope Martin V issued a mandate to the bishop of Lichfield, 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.^[2]

Inquisition Robert de Legh, of Adlynton, Died 1415

On the Saturday next after the feast of All Saints, 3 Henry V [2 November, 1415], an inquisition taken at Chester, regarding Robert de Legh, of Adlynton, found that the said Robert died seised, in his demesne, of 10l granted to him and his heirs by Thomas de Stanley, to be received of the issues of the manor of Alderley; that the said manor was held of the Earl of Chester in capite by knight's service; that the said Robert de Legh died on the Thursday next before the feast of St Michael the Archangel "last" past, [26 September, 1415] and Robert his son was next heir and of the age of five years, and was married by the said Robert his father a long time prior to his death.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix 6. Welsh Records. Calendar of Deeds, Inquisitions, and Writs of Dower, Enrolled on the Plea Rolls of the County of Chester.—Ric. 2 to Hen. 7.", The Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [25 February 1868], (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1868), 70, e-Book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039450518?urlappend=%3Bseq=268%3Bownerid=34524648-267 : accessed 6 July, 2022).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Lateran Regesta 243: 1423-1424," in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 7, 1417-1431, ed. J A Twemlow (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1906), 360-366. British History Online, (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol7/pp360-366 : accessed 8 June, 2022). f. 240.

See also:

• Harleian Society. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, The Publicatons of The Harleian Society (London: The Society, 1882) Vol. 18.

• Page 151: "Rob't Leigh of Adlington." married 1st "Isabel d. to Jno Savage s.p." married 2nd "Isabell d. to Sr Wm Stanley married by consent of the Pope because she was of the blood of his first wife."

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Ancestry of Obadiah and Mary Bruen, The American Genealogist (1950) Vol. 26, Page 18. "The Holford Lineage"