Robert Legh (1428 - 1486)

Born 1428 in Adlington, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 8 Dec 1486 at about age 58 in Adlington, Cheshire, England

Biography

Robert Legh of Adlyngton^[1]

Robert Legh, Esq. of Adlington, married Ellen, daughter of Sir Robert Booth, of Dunham-Massey.^[2]

Robert was the father of:

1. Reynold Legh, living on 11 June, 1506;^[1]

Regarding Robert Legh of Adlyngton: Commission of concealments &c., wanting; an inquisition on 11 June, 21 Henry VII [1506], found Nicholas Broun was seised in fee of a messuage and a bovate of land and meadow in Witfeld in the parish of Glossop, Derbyshire, worth 13s 4d, held of king Henry VI in chief by knight-service, and by charter dated 10 May, 16 Henry VI [1438], gave them to Robert Legh, late of Adlyngton, his heirs and assigns, without the king’s licence. Robert Legh was seised of the premises accordingly in fee, and took the issues and profits thereof for a long time; and afterwards one Reynold Legh, his son, entered and took the issues and profits, and still takes them, but by what title he entered the jurors know not.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry VII Vol. III, Eds Sir Cyril Flower, CB, M C B Dawes, BA, and A C Wood, MA, (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1955), 89. e-Book Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/calendarofinquis03great/page/89/mode/1up : accessed 9 July, 2022). Abstract No 163. Robert Legh of Adlyngton. [C. Series II. Vol. 19. (132.)].
2. ↑ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 1 p.707

• Harleian Society. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, The Publicatons of The Harleian Society (London: The Society, 1882) Vol. 18, Page 151
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