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Piers Legh (abt. 1389 - 1422)

Sir Piers (Peter) Legh
Born about in Lyme, Cheshire, Englandmap
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Died at about age 33 in Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, Francemap
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Biography

Peter de Legh, knight, of Clifton, Cheshire[1]

Piers de Legh was the son of Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Danyers, and her husband, the 1st Peter Legh of Lyme. A grant, by Margaret who was the wife of Peter de Legh, to Geoffrey de Mascy of Wymyncham, of a yearly rent of 20/- for life from her lands and tenements in Chedele, dated 1 October, 12 Henry IV, 1410, was endorsed "By Margaret daughter of Sir Thomas Danyers and widow of the 1st Peter Legh of Lyme".[2] In 1412, Margaret Danyers, the widow of Peter de Legh, sued Thomas Danyers, son of Thomas Danyers, Kt, for land in Lymme and Appulton.[3]

Marriage

Piers was the first husband Joan Haydock (d. 1440).[4] She was the daughter and heir of Sir Gilbert Haydock.[5]

They were the parents of:

  1. Peter, knighted at Wakefield in 1460, married Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux.[6]

Military Career

On 29 June, 1421, Peter de Legh, knight, of Clifton, Cheshire, had Letters of Protection for going to France in the retinue of the king, Henry V of England.[1]

Death

The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 asserts that he was slain at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415,[6] but Wikipedia claims that he died in 1422.[7] His wife remarried to Richard Molyneux of Sefton, Lancashire.[5]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alex. Charles Ewald, comp, "Appendix No. 3. Calendar of the French Rolls, 1-10 Henry V." The Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [7 August 1883], (London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1883), 627, e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/annualreportdep06offigoog/page/627/mode/1up : accessed 18 October, 2022). 9 Henry 5. Membrane 13.
  2. ↑ The National Archives Website: Discovery: DLL 3/46, Schedule of Leigh Family Deeds, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/107f445b-8e5e-4d41-85f7-f11304a3872e, 25 August, 2014.
  3. ↑ Major-General The Hon G Wrottesley, ed,, Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls collected from the Pleadings in the Various Courts of Law AD 1200 to 1500 from the Original Rolls (1905), 279. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/pedigreesfromple00wrotrich#page/278/mode/2up : accessed 15 August, 2014).
  4. ↑ 'Townships: Sefton', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 66-74. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp66-74 [accessed 5 January 2021].
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Molineux of Haughton," in Vis. of Lancs., 1664-65. WikiTree.com. Pedigree.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Leigh of Lyme, (Vis. of Chesh, 1580). WikiTree.com. Pedigree.
  7. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Piers Legh (died 1422)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piers_Legh_(died_1422)&oldid=1083149562 : accessed 17 October, 2022).

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Johnson-43462 Leigh Anne (Johnson) Dear
"In the History of Lancashire, by Edward Baines, under the head of Poulton-with-Fearnhead, Bruche Hall is spoken of as the ancient manor house; and its possession by the Leghs is dated from the marriage of johanna, heiress of Haydock, with Sir Piers Legh, which took place very early in the 15th c. This statement is repeated in substance in the notes to Notitia Cestriensis, pp.235-6 (vol. xxi of the Shetham Series). This (ownership) account is misleading. it is true to far as the feudal superiority is concerned; but the manor of Bruche was not held in demesne by the Haydoks, or by their successors, the Leghs, but by the family who had long borne the local namd and continued to reside there for 200 years after the above-named date. Visitation of Cheshire & Lancashire, pg.105-6; Yr 1533
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[Living Horace]
Legh-50 and Legh-49 appear to represent the same person because: Surplus generation. The one who fought at Agincourt was the son of Margaret Danyers, but he wasn't killed at Agincourt. He died in France in 1422.
posted by [Living Horace]

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