Anthony St Leger KG
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Anthony St Leger KG (abt. 1496 - 1559)

Sir Anthony St Leger KG aka Sentleger, Sellenger, Seyntleger
Born about in Ulcombe, Kent, Englandmap [uncertain]
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Contents

Biography

Titles and Offices held

  • 1526 JP for Kent[1][2]
  • 1538-53 Gentleman of the King's Privy Chamber[1][3]
  • 1539-40 Sheriff of Kent[1][2][4]
  • 1539 Knighted[1][2]
  • 1540-43 Lord Deputy of Ireland[5][2] (see research note 1)
  • 1544 Knight of the Garter[6][2]
  • 1544-46 Lord Deputy of Ireland [5][2]
  • 1547-49 Lord Deputy of Ireland [5][2]
  • 1550-51 Lord Deputy of Ireland[5][2]
  • 1552 Of Leeds Castle[3]
  • 1553 Envoy to France[1]
  • 1553-56 Lord Deputy of Ireland[5][2]
  • 1554 Reappointed JP for Kent[2]

Parents and Education

Anthony St Leger was born about 1496 (the exact date of his birth is uncertain), the eldest son of Ralph St Leger and Elizabeth Haute.[7][8][9]

At the age of twelve Anthony was sent with his tutor to France and Italy to learn the fundamentals of grammar and etiquette.[10][1] On his return to England he began his studies at Cambridge University;[3] the records at Cambridge do not indicate what year he matriculated, but it is presumed to have been sometime around 1512. After completing his studies at Cambridge he entered Gray's Inn to study law.[10][3]

Anthony succeeded his father 20 October 1519, at which time he assumed responsibility for all his younger siblings.[2]

Early Career

From Gray's Inn, Anthony went into the service of Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey at court.[10] He was readily accepted there, partly because "his debonnairess and freedome took with the king, as his solidity and wisdome [did] with the cardinal,"[11] and perhaps partly because many members of his family were already popular with the king. His father had served as Esquire for the Body at the funeral of Henry VII,[12] and Sir George St Leger (son of James St Leger and Anne Butler) had been in command of the rear guard (comprised of 100 men) of the king's forces in Calais.[13] Both men were among the nobles who were selected to accompany the king and queen to France in 1520.[14] (see research note 2) Anthony performed a number of minor services for the king such as collecting royal subsidies for the county of Kent and assisting in the defense of the southeastern coast near Dover and the CInque Ports in the event of a French invasion.[15] After Wolsey's downfall, however, Anthony St Leger became a protege of Cromwell and played a major role in demolishing as many abbeys as possible.[10] He was later rewarded for this by receiving the Manor of Kingworth and the Priory of East Bilsington.[2] In 1535 he served on the grand jury that found against Anne Boleyn, and the following year he was summoned (along with 50 men) to defend the king during the Lincolnshire Uprising and the Pilgrimage of Grace.[2]

In 1537 he was placed in charge of a commission whose charge was to travel to Ireland and arrange "for the order and establishment to be taken and made touching the hole [sic] state of our lande of Ireland."[16] The commissoners were to Investigate financial matters, discover any malfeasance, and devise a plan to decrease expenditures and increase revenue.[17] The commission was successful in uncovering many cases of gross financial abuse; as well as a complete breakdown of the law which was resulting in violence throughout the countryside, and a court system which had become very corrupt and inefficient.[18] St Leger was able, within about three weeks, to correct the treasurer's financial books and "to leave such recorde....[in a state] the lyke as there had not been in Ireland this longe season."[19] St Leger was also able to convince the Irish legislature to pass Acts of Succession and Supremacy, and to further suppress monasteries.[20]

The king was very happy with the results of this mission. In 1538 Anthony St Leger was made a Gentleman of the King's Privy Chamber,[1] and in 1539 he was knighted.[1][2] In that same year he was also appointed Sheriff of Kent,[21] and he served in that position until his appointment as Lord Deputy of Ireland.

Lord Deputy of Ireland 1540-1548

Although Sir Anthony was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland at least five times,[2] his service there can be more easily discussed by dividing it into three periods. In his first appointment, Anthony succeeded Lord Leonard Gray, who had been accused of treason and beheaded that year.[22] Anthony's previous success in straightening out problems in Ireland, in addition to his convivial manners at court and his powers of persuasion made him the perfect candidate to send to Ireland in Gray's stead. St Leger was said to be "a wise and warie gentleman, a valiant servitor in war, and a good justicer in peace, properlie learned, a good maker in the English, having gravite so interlaced with pleasantnesse, as with an exceeding good grace he would attain the one without pouting dumpishnesse, and exercise the other without loathsome lightnesse."[23]

St Leger's plan, which he was able to convince the king to go along with, was to win over the Irish leaders whenever possible through persuasion rather than force.[2] He began a policy of "surrender and regrant" which meant that any clan leader who willfully submitted his lands to the crown and pledged loyalty to the king would be given back his lands (which he would then hold at the king's pleasure) and be granted a new English title to replace his historic Gaelic one.[10] This strategy met with amazing success, although several clan leaders defiantly refused to submit and St Leger was forced to conduct military raids against them.[2]

Perhaps the most important accomplishment of his first administration was successfully shepherding legislation though the Irish Parliament giving Henry and his heirs the title of King of Ireland. [2][10] This was of enormous significance because historically most Irish considered the Bishop of Rome to be the King of Ireland, and this Act declared Henry the King of Ireland by divine right.[24] Last but not least, St Leger proved his value to the king by raising a troop of Irish soldiers which he sent to assist Henry, who was besieging Boulogne. These Irishmen were described as "...men of a most savage description, but they made themselves very useful in the seige, and particularly in foraging. [It is said] they were severely handled by the French if they happened to be taken."[22] Henry was most appreciative.

The final days of his first administration were marred by a quarrel with the Earl of Ormonde, who became convinced that St Leger appointed him to lead an army of 2000 men to assist the Earl of Lennox in Scotland in an attempt to get rid of him. St Leger then intercepted a letter from Ormande to the Privy Council charging St Leger with treason.[10] The relationship between Ormande and St Leger went downhill from there, and both were finally called to London to resolve the matter. The matter was heard in the Privy Council and a truce was reached between both men. The Lord Chancellor, John Alen, was discovered to be the person responsible for convincing Ormande that St Leger was trying to get rid of him and the Great Seal was taken from him just before he was imprisoned in the Fleet.[10] St Leger returned to Ireland. The Earle of Ormonde was mysteriously and fatally poisoned while eating dinner at Limehouse, a meal which had been prepared by his own servants.[22]

Lord Deputy of Ireland 1550-1551

Sir Anthony's second term as Lord Deputy did not go as smoothly as the first. During his absence the policy of surrender and regrant had been replaced by a more rigid policy of "expulsion and resettlement."[25] Any clan that resisted English authority could have their land confiscated and their people banished. The land would then be leased out to English settlers who were forced to promise that the previous occupants would not be allowed back on their land.[25] A primary goal was to establish English settlements at Leix and Offaly but the funding to do this was not really sufficient, and settlers were rather heavily taxed in order to afford the upkeep on the royal forts in their immediate vicinity (which were necessary to protect the settlements from marauding clans).[26] Consequently these settlements never actually thrived.

This second term was also marked by an attempt to systemmatically exploit the country's mineral resources. Ireland's supplies of gold, silver, and lead were the subject of countless legends, and the crown was always in need of money. St Leger wrote to Henry emphasizing how lucrative mining the resources in Ireland could be, describing "....the mynes that be heare, bothe of leade, tynne, coper, and iron, whiche we thinke would be a greate ryches, if it mought be quyetely labored for."[27] St Leger was directed to begin mining a large silver deposit but found it necessary to hire foreign labor to work the mine as either the Irish were not knowlegeable about mining or unwilling to see their natural resources plundered for England.[28] This project, like the settlement at Leix, was not a success as the cost of the labor exceeded the value of the minerals which the mine produced.

It was the question of religion, however, that caused St Leger's second term to incur the most severe criticism.[2] His moderate policies incensed both the Catholics and the Protestants. His most severe critic was Archbishop Browne, whose animosity toward St Leger eventually resulted in both Sir Anthony and his chaplain being charged with heresy (accused of being secretly Catholic) and St Leger being recalled to defend himself before the Privy Council.[2] He was eventually able to defeat this charge but the matter was serious enough to get him banned from the Privy Chamber for four months until the verdict was rendered.[2]

Meanwhile, running throughout St Leger's entire second term were recurrent rumors that he, along with his brother Robert, were lining their own pockets by confiscating estates and conveying them over to themselves. Robert had, at one point, even been charged with piracy for robbing a merchant ship. He was imprisoned for a short time but released on condition that he appear before the Privy Council within twenty days of his release to either answer the charges against him or pay the merchant for the goods that were stolen.[29] This term definitely presented many challenges to St Leger.

Regardless, once the heresy trial was over, Anthony was well received back in England. He supported Mary during the succession crisis, was again made a Privy Councillor, was sent to France as a special ambassador to reconcile Henri (who had supported Lady Jane Grey) to the accession of Mary I, and was reappointed as JP for Kent.[2]

Lord Deputy of Ireland 1553-1556

When Sir Anthony St Leger returned to Ireland for his final term as Lord Deputy, the country was in the midst of a revenue crisis of gigantic proportions.[30] The crown's expeditures so far exceeded its revenue that "forced loans" had become commonplace--merchants, bankers, and landowners were literally forced to loan large amounts of money to the English government with a promise (which may not have been worth much) that they would eventually be paid back.[30] The second major challenge his new administration faced was piracy. It had reached record levels, with pirate ships stalking the coastline and their crews getting bolder every day.[31] And, of course, there was still the long standing conflict between Protestants and Catholics. Now however, with a Catholic queen, it was the Protestants who felt threatened.

During this term all the previous rumors of St Leger's corrupt financial transactions resurfaced. Sir William Fitzwilliam, who was the temporary keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland, accused St Leger of falsifying the Irish accounts[32] and this time the charge stuck. The Irish Privy Council found him guilty and he was recalled to London to answer the accusations there. The matter was so serious that the crown sent a special envoy to Ireland to confiscate and bring back to London "all such bookes and nootes as concerne Sir Anthonye St Leger's accounts."[33] The evidence must have been damning, because despite an eloquent defence he was found guilty and in December, 1558 the Council issued the following order: "....that where he [St Leger] is indebted into the Quenes Majestie in great sommes of money....to make payment thereof to her Highnes' use, and to signifye with spede to the Lordes what he myndeth to doo herein."[34] The investigation dragged on long after the verdict was issued, however, because although the Council found him guilty they could not figure out exactly how much money he had taken. The matter was finally dropped but not until some time after his death.[35]

Although this scandal cast a shadow over his last years, Sir Anthony continued to enjoy a good reputation at court. He was requested by the queen to supply 100 soldiers, furnish them with armour and weapons from her own stores at Dover, and "wylled to haste over with all spede" to relieve Calais before it fell to the French.[36] He did so despite the fact that he was by then 62 years of age and in poor health, although in the end bad weather prevented him from reaching Calais and it was lost after being under English control for 220 years. He was also consulted about the advisability of reopening the mines in Ireland, and his advice was sought on several other matters involving Ireland.[36]

Marriage and Children

Anthony St Leger married (sometime before 1525) Agnes Warham, daughter and heiress of Hugh Warham, Esq., and Marian Colles. Agnes was the niece of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury.[7][8] They had five sons and two daughters,[7][8] but only the names of the following are known for certain: (see research note 3)

  1. William St Leger[7] b. bef. 1525,[2] d. aft. 1559[2], m. Isabel Keyes
  2. Sir Warham St Leger [7] b. 1526, d. 1597[37], m(1). Ursula Neville[38] m(2) Emmeline Goldwell[39]
  3. Nicholas St Leger[7][40] d. c1589[2] m. Katherine Moyle[40]
  4. Anthony St Leger[7] d. 1613[2]
  5. Anne St Leger[7] m. Francis Arningstone[7]

Death and Will

Sir Anthony St Leger died on 16 March 1559. His death was recorded in Henry Machyn's diary in this manner: "Sir Anthony St Leger, Knight of the Garter, dyed at his howsse of Vuckham in Kent on Thursday the 16 of Marche in A.J. Elizabeth, 1558 and [was] buryed on Wensday the 5 of Apryll next foloing in the parish church of Alhalows hard by the said housse."[41] The inscription on Sir Anthony's monument reads:

Sir Anthony Sentleger, Knight of the Most Honorable Order of the Garter, Gentleman of the Privie Chamber, and employed in most honorable offices under the most renowned Henry the Eight and Edward the Sixt, Kinges, twice Lord Deputy of Ireland, by whose meanes in his first government the Nobilite and Commons there were induced by generall and free consent to geve unto Henry the Eight, Kinge of England, in that province allso Regalia Jura, the title and scepter of Kinge to him and his posteritie for ever, whose predecessors before were intituled only Lordes of Ireland. This grave concillour, after this course of life spent in the service of these two rare and redoubted Kinges, having endured, nevertheless, some crosses in the tyme of Queene Mary, and yet living to see the felicious reigne of our present peerelesse Queene Elizabeth, departed anno salutis 1559, aged about 63 years.[42]

Above the inscription are the St Leger arms and crest and below is an hour-glass. Richard Stone notes that, considering Sir Anthony's prominence, "the memorial is not a splendid one and gives the impression that expense has been spared."[43] Perhaps the family felt a more ostentatious monument would be inappropriate as the Privy Council was at that time still conducting their investigation to determine how much money Sir Anthony had embezzled from the crown. As a Knight of the Garter, however, he did have a public funeral. His wife Agnes died eight days after her husband but evidently there was no precedent for a Knight of the Garter being buried with his wife, so the heralds solved this problem by burying her first.[44] Anthony's funeral was conducted with great pageantry. Machyn recorded that he was buried with a standard, a great banner of arms, helmet, crest, target and sword, and six dozen escocheons, with two heralds present (the Garter King of Arms and the Lancaster Herald).[45]

Sir Anthony St Leger's will, dated 27 October 1558, was proved 10 June 1559.[46] It was very brief, making his son Warham his sole executor and leaving his entire estate (after all debts had been paid) to Warham.

Research Notes

  1. There is some ambiguity about the actual dates and number of times that St Leger served as Lord Deputy of Ireland. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says he was appointed six times, but does not actually list the dates/times covered by each appointment.[2] The History of Parliament lists three appointments as Lord Deputy, but these cover roughly the same period of time as that described in the ODNB.[1] The confusion seems to be caused by the difficulty determining--whenever St Leger made a trip back to London--whether he was recalled (and thus would have to be reappointed) or whether he just returned on his own to transact business. The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork (pub. 1815) cites the "abstract of a parchment roll" which contains brief descriptions of each of Anthony St Leger's swearing in ceremonies as Lord Deputy, which were all conducted in Trinity Church at Dublin.[5] There were five ceremonies: in 1540, 1544, 1547, 1550, and 1553. This profile uses these dates as the dates that each appointment began, and pieces together information from the ODNB and HOP to estimate when each term may have ended.
  2. Ralph St Leger's name appears on the list of nobles who were selected to accompany the king and queen to France, but it is not possible that he actually made the trip as his Will was proven in 2019. George St Leger definitely represented the St Leger family on this occasion, however, and George's wife also traveled to France as a lady-in-waiting to the queen.
  3. Marlyn Lewis[47] adds the names of two additional children of Sir Anthony and Agnes Warham: Robert (1529-1564) and Jane (1531-1562). Because he gives no sources for these children they are not included in this profile, but may be added later if their existence can be proven. Lewis's birth order of the sons also conflicts with Richardson's and most other authorities (he lists Nicholas as the second son and Warham as being the third son). Warham, his father's heir, is universally recognized as his second son.[48] Richardson identifies Nicholas as the third son of Anthony and Agnes.[40]

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  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for St Leger, Anthony (1496?-1559).Published online 23 Sep 2004, rev. 3 Jan 2008. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/24512
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  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 Dictionary of National Biography Online, entry for St Leger, Anthony (1496?-1559) available here.
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  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Piveronus, Peter John. The Life and Career of Sir Anthony St Leger of Ulcombe, Kent. Michigan State University, Doctoral Dissertation, 1972 , p. 165 available online.
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  27. ↑ -State Papers of Henry VIII. Vol III, p. 339; Letters and Papers. Vol XVI, No 1284; cited in Piveronus, Peter John. The Life and Career of Sir Anthony St Leger of Ulcombe, Kent. Michigan State University, Doctoral Dissertation, 1972 , p. 167available online.
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  46. ↑ Last Will and Testament of Sir Anthony St Leger, dated 27 Oct 1558 and proved 10 Jun 1559. National Archives PROB 11/42B/276; The Oxford Authorship Site available here.
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See also:
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  • 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.
  • Davis, Walter Goodwin. The Ancestors of Mary Isaac 1540-1613. Anthoensen Press, 1955, p. 168 available online.
  • Webb, Alfred. Sir Anthony St Leger. A Compenium of Irish Biography Online, Library Ireland available here.
  • Wills, James. The Irish Nation: Its History and Its Biography. Edinburgh: A. Fullerton and Co., 1875, Vol 1, p. 367-371 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.

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Helen (Coleman) Ford
St Leger-284 and St Leger-4 appear to represent the same person because: Same death date, same wife, different dob but duplicate is estimated and only sourced from a pedigree.
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Stevens-17832 Jen (Stevens) Hutton
Thanks Michael and Liz. I am finished here!
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Stevens-17832 Jen (Stevens) Hutton
I am still revising this biography on behalf of the Magna Carta Project, but would like to propose that Dorothea (St Leger) Wheeler be detached as Anthony St Leger's sister. Although the ODNB does say he had three sisters, the only one who has been proven is Anne. The only source given on Dorothea's profile is Marlyn Lewis, and his information re Dorothea is completely unsourced. If anyone has an objection to detaching Dorothea from this profile until her existence can be proven, please message me or post your thoughts here. We might also consider adding Robert, Arthur, and Anne as siblings who actually can be proven. Thanks, Jen
posted by Jen (Stevens) Hutton
Cayley-55 Michael Cayley
Dorothy is mentioned in "Stemmata Robertson et Durdin", along with other siblings: https://archive.org/stream/stemmatarobertso00robe#page/70/mode/1up. But the best place for listing and discussing Anthony's siblings is on his parents' profiles. I have moved the list of siblings to their profiles.
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Stevens-17832 Jen (Stevens) Hutton
I am going to be working on this profile on behalf of the Magna Carta Project to locate some additional sources and possibly add to the biography. If anyone has information they think should be included, please contact me directly or post a message here. Thanks! Jen
posted by Jen (Stevens) Hutton

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