Margaret (Dutton) Leicester (abt. 1255 - abt. 1305)

Born about 1255 in Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Nicholas (Leycester) Leicester — married 1277 in Westhale Manor, Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died about 1305 at about age 50 in Nether Tabley, Cheshire, England

Biography

Lady Margaret Dutton was a member of the aristocracy in England.

"Geffrey Dutton, son of Geffrey, son of Adam Dutton aforesaid, gave this township to Margaret his daughter and to her heirs, about the very end of the reign of Henry the Third, in these words: ..."

"This Margaret Dutton first married Robert de Denbigh, but had no issue by him : after, she married Nicolas de Leycester, about 1276, by whom she had issue, and to whose succeeding progeny the manor of Nether-Tabley still belongeth at this day (1666)."^[1][2]

Margaret Dutton, widow of Robert de Denbigh, married Sir Nicholas Leycester, Knight, about 1276.^[3][4][5]

Margaret, daughter of Geoffrey de Dutton of Aston, married (1) Robert de Denby; (2) Nicholas de Leicester. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ 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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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. By George Ormerod, p 256 [1]
2. ↑ Notitia Cestriensis, Or, Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester: Cheshire, By Francis Gastrell, p 324 [2]
3. ↑ The history of the county palatine and city of Chester, by George Ormerod, page 256
4. ↑ Our Royal, Titled, Noble and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins
5. ↑ A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies, by Burke and Burke, page 366
6. ↑ Memorials of the Duttons of Dutton in Cheshire: With Notes Respecting the Sherborne Branch of ...Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1901, p. 157 [3]

• Harleian Society. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, The Publicatons of The Harleian Society (London: The Society, 1882) Vol. 18, Page 138: "Roger Lecester married "Agnes d. to Geffery Dutton."

• 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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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, by George Ormerod, p 256 "Sir Nicholas Leycester, Knight... married Margaret the widow of Robert de Denbigh and daughter of Geffrey Dutton"

• Our Royal, Titled, Noble and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins database online, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, follows Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry. It includes Magna Carta Surety Barons and many of their descendants. Margaret Dutton

• John Burke and John Bernard Burke. A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies. London: Scott, Wedster and Geary, 1838. GoogleBooks Page 366