Isabel (Hildyard) Legard (abt. 1500 - aft. 1540)

Born about 1500 in Winestead, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

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Biography

Isabel was the daughter of Peter Hildyard of Winestead, Yorkshire^[1] and Joan de la See. Her birth year is unknown and has been estimated as about 1500 on the basis of her parents being recorded as a married couple in 1497 and the marriage settlement for her daughter Joan being dated February 1550/1.^[2][3]

Isabel married Ralph Legard^[1] of Anlaby, Yorkshire,^[2][3] probably in Yorkshire where both families lived. Their oldest son Christopher was born in May 1527, so they will have married before then, and a 1994 article by James Hansen on the ancestry of their daughter Joan estimates it as about 1520.^[4] They had the following children:

• Christopher,^[2][3] who was his father's heir^[1] and who was born on 7 May 1527^[4][5]
• Richard,^[2][3][4] listed as second son in Flower's Yorkshire Visitation^[1]
• John,^[2][3][4] listed as third son in Flower's Yorkshire Visitation^[1]
• Ralph,^[2][3][4] listed as fourth son in Flower's Yorkshire Visitation, which says he died young^[1]
• Robert,^[2][3] listed as fifth son in Flower's Yorkshire Visitation,^[1] who became a merchant at Hull, Yorkshire^[4]
• Anne,^[2][3] who died without issue^[1] before 1564^[4]
• Frances, who married Gabriel Kyme^[1][2][3]
• Joan, who married Richard Skepper and Robert Townley^[1][2][3][4]
• Elizabeth^[1][2][3][4]

Isabel was left 20 shillings in her mother's will, dated 20 July 1527, which refers to her as "doughtour Legerde".^[6]

Isabel's husband died on 29^[5] or 30^{[2][3] [4]} June 1540. She was granted letters of administration for her husband's estate on 10 July 1540,^[4] so she died after that.^[2][3]

Research Notes

Burial

Isabel's father-in-law Robert Legard was buried at Kirk Ella, Yorkshire in 1533.^[7] It is possible she was buried there too.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10} Charles Best Norcliffe (ed.). The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, made by William Flower, Esquire, Harleian Society, 1881, p. 186, Internet Archive
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} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume IV p.32, SKEPPER 13
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. IV, p. 639, SKEPPER 18
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10} James L Hansen. The Ancestry of Joan Legard, Grandmother of the Rev. William Skepper/Skipper of Boston, Massachusetts, in 'The American Genealogist', volume 69, No. 3, July 1994, pp.130-131, American Ancestors website ($)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward VI, Vol. V, HMSO 1926 (Kraus Reprint Corporation 1970), p. 325, Familysearch (image page 327)
6. ↑ Testamenta Eboracensia, Vol. V, Surtees Society, 1884, pp. 230-231, Internet Archive
7. ↑ Robert Winder Johnson. The Johnson Family and Allied Families of Lincolnshire, England, The Dolphin Press, 1934, p. 113, Internet Archive (available for short-term digital loan)

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 14 January 2024.

Isabel (Hildyard) Legard is in project-approved/badged trails (reviewed March 2016 by a Project member) from Gateway Ancestor William Skepper to Magna Carta Surety Barons William d'Aubigny, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy, and Robert de Ros. Isabel (Hildyard) Legard also appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail between Gateway William Skepper and surety baron Roger le Bigod (vol. IV, pages 30-33 SKEPPER) that has not yet been developed by the Magna Carta Project. All the trails named above are detailed in the Magna Carta Trails section of Edward Skepper's profile.

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