Anthony St Leger (abt. 1551 - bef. 1602)

Born about 1551 in Ulcombe, Kent, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Scott) Culpeper — married 13 May 1578 in St Mary's Church, Smeeth, Kent, England

Descendants

Died before 17 Jun 1602 before about age 51 in Leeds Castle, Kent, England

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Biography

Sir Anthony Saint Leger of Ulcombe and Leeds, Kent^[1][2]

Anthony St Leger, eldest son of Sir Warham St Leger and his wife Ursula Neville,^[3] daughter of George Neville, Baron Bergavenny,^[4] and his 3rd wife Mary Stafford,^[1] was born about 1551 in Ulcombe, Kent, England. (No source has yet been found for Anthony's date of birth, the year 1551 is an estimate based on his parent's marriage in 1749.)

Anthony married Mary Scott, daughter of Sir Thomas Scott of Scott's Hall, Sheriff of Kent (1576-7), and Elizabeth Baker, on 13 May 1578 in St Mary's Church at Smeeth, Kent.^[5][1] According to Douglas Richardson they had four sons and one daughter,^[1] but only two of their children are mentioned by name:

1. Warham St Leger, Knt., m. Mary Hayward^[1][6][7], d. 1630^[8]
2. Anthony St Leger, b. 1591^[9]; d. 1626^[10]

Anthony St Leger was made a knight 28 May 1593 by William FitzWilliam, lord deputy of Ireland.^[11][12]

Sir Anthony St. Leger died in 1602 and was buried on 17 June of that year in All Saints Church at Ulcombe, Kent.^[13] His widow, Mary, married (2nd) Sir Alexander Culpeper of Wigsell, Sussex on 7 December 1603.^[14][15]

Research Notes

Richardson dates Anthony's death as occurring in 1603, but this theory is superseded by the discovery of his burial record at Ulcombe.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol IV, pp 537-538 SAINT LEGER 19.i.; 20. Anthony Saint Leger, Knt.
2. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, p. 482, SAINT LEGER 15. Anthony Saint Leger.
3. ↑ Wykeham-Martin, Charles. The History and Description of Leeds Castle. Westminster: Nicholas and Sons, 1869 , p. 177 available online.
4. ↑ Wikisource: Warham St. Leger (Dictionary of National Biography)
5. ↑ Kent Marriages and Banns. Anth St.Leger; Residence: Smeeth; Marriage date: 13 May 1578; Marriage place: Smeeth, St Mary; Spouse: Mary Scott; Spouse's residence: Smeeth; Notes: Esq. d. of Sir Thomas; County, Kent; Country: England; Archive: Canterbury Cathedral Archives; Record set: Kent Marriages and Banns; Category: Birth, Marriage, Death and Parish records; Subcategory: Parish marriages. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FEASTKENT%2FMAR%2F059232%2F1
6. ↑ Shirley Association.
7. ↑ It was this Sir Warham who sold Leeds Castle. (Shirley Association and Richardson, above)
8. ↑ Kent Burials. Sir Warham Sentleger. Burial date: 11 Oct 1630; Burial place: Ulcombe, All Saints; Country: England; Archive: Kent History and Library Centre; Archive reference: P376/1/A/1; Register type: Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials; Year range: 1560-1643; Page: 29; Record set: Kent Burials; Category: Birth, Marriage, Death and Parish records; Subcategory: Parish burials. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=PRS%2FKENT%2FBUR%2F0590480
9. ↑ Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford 1500-1714. Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892 available online.
10. ↑ Kent Burials. Antonius Sentleger. Burial date: 8 Jan 1626; Burial place: Ulcombe, All Saints; Next of kin relationship: Filius; Next of kin name: Antonii Sentleger; Country: England; Archive: Kent History and Library Centre; Archive reference: P376/1/A/1; Register type: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials; Year range: 1560-1643; Page: 28; Record set: Kent Burials; Category: Birth, Marriage, Death and Parish records; Subcategory: Parish burials. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=PRS%2FKENT%2FBUR%2F0590450
11. ↑ Kinney, Arthur F. Titled Elizabethans: A Directory of Elizabethan Court, State, and Church Officers 1558-1603. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 3rd ed. (2014), p. 215.
12. ↑ Shaw, William Arthur. The Knights of England. London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906, p. 90 available online.
13. ↑ Kent Burials. Anthonius Sentleger. Burial date: 17 Jun 1602; Burial place: Ulcombe, All Saints; Country: England; Archive: Kent History and Library Centre; Archive reference: P376/1/A/1; Register type: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials; Year range: 1560-1643; Page: 25; Record set: Kent burials; Category: Birth, Marriage, Death and Parish records; Subcategory: Parish burials. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=PRS%2FKENT%2FBUR%2F0590164
14. ↑ Kent Marriages and Banns. Marie Sent Leger. Marriage date: 7 Dec 1603; Marriage place: Harrietsham, St John the Baptist; Spouse: Alixard [sic] Culpeper; Groom's residence: otp; Bride's residence: Ulcombe; Bride's marital status: widow; Banns or licence: licence; County: Kent; Country: England; Record source: Harrietsham Marriages 1538-1812; Record set: Kent Marriages and Banns; Category: Birth, Marriage, Death and Parish records; Subcategory: Parish marriages. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FM%2F84040602%2F2
15. ↑ Brown, Alexander. Genesis of the United States. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co,, 1890, Vol. 2, p. 997. available online.

See also:

• Stemmata de Leodegaria” - Pedigree of the St. Leger family compiled by Rev. Edward St. Leger, 1867 which is held at the British Library, London Ref: 14000 r 23 16 8674728.

• Benolte, Thomas, and Robert Cooke. Visitation of Kent 1530-1531, 1574. (1924), pp. 68-69 available online.

• Berry, William. Pedigrees in the Families in the County of Kent. Paternoster Row, London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1830, pp. 287-288.

• Faris, David. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth Century Colonists. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996, p. 245. Discovered in Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists - https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/19534895?h=e94432

• Stone, Richard.Ulcombe, Ireland, and the St Legers. Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. 91 (1975), pp. 111-117. available online.
• “Stemmata de Leodegaria “, - Pedigree of the St. Leger family compiled by Rev. Edward St. Leger, of Kirton-in-Lindsay, 1867 which is held at the British Library, London Ref: 14000 r 23 16 8674728.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

Anthony St Leger appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in badged Richardson-documented badged trails from Gateway Ancestors Saint Leger Codd and Warham Horsmanden to a number of Magna Carta Surety Barons. See the trails HERE (Horsmanden) and HERE (Codd).

See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails and the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".