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Agnes de Legh
- Preferred Name: Agnes de Legh[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
- Alternate Name: Agnes de Legh
- Alternate Name: De Lymm
- Alternate Name: Agnes Legh
- Gender: F
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Legh-14: with note: Description: Wikitree
- Birth: ABT 1240 in High Legh, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.3546 LONG: E2.4512
- Death: BEF 1296 in Bradwall, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.1333 LONG: E2.3667
- FSID: M233-RYC
- Fact: with note: Description: Heiress of the West Hall of Legh
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Note c
Page 430 book or page 551 pdf download
Agnes must have been first wife of William Venables. Her son by Ralph de Hawarden, her second husband, (see High Legh in note) was born before 1265. Katherine de St. Pierre, the other wife of W. Venables, was living 24 Edw . I. 1296. It is not probable that W. Venables should marry Agnes after this time, and have John de Legh of Booth's by her (and more...)-0
The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Comp. from ..., Volume 1
George Ormerod
https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/The_History_of_the_County_Palatine_and_C.html?id=DYY1AQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
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Agnes de Legh was an only child of Richard de Legh and his heiress.
See Memories
* Legh, of Norbury Booths Hall, by John Burke Esquire, Page 44
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* I. HAMON LEGH, of the West-Hall in High-Legh ; about Hen.II.
* II. William de Legh.
* III. Richard de Legh, son of William, had issue Richard and Madoc, cui pater dedit mediatetem de Sworton in High-Legh ; and Margery, married Aytrop, son of Aytrop of Millington, tempore Hen. III. (Lib.
C. fol. 273, num. 3.)
* IV . Richard de Legh, son of Richard, son of William ,son of Hamon de Legh.
* V. Agnes, daughter and heir of Richard, had three husbands ; - the first was Richard de Limme, younger son of Hugh de Limme [by Emma his wife] ; and had issue Thomas de Legh de West-Hall.
- After she married William Venables of Bradwell, and had issue John de Legh, from whom the Leghs
of the Booths near Knotsford.
- And lastly she married William de Hawardyn, and him had issue Raufe de Hawardyn.
Page 451
More Legh/Leigh family history from page 449 - 464 of the actual book or from page 569 if you download the pdf. version.
The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Comp. from ..., Volume 1
George Ormerod
https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/The_History_of_the_County_Palatine_and_C.html?id=DYY1AQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
See Memories for the lineage chart
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Hamon de Legh was known as Lord of the Mediety/Moiety of High Legh, during the time of Henry ll life from 1133-1189.
See Memories:
* Legh, of Norbury Booths Hall, by John Burke Esquire, Page 44
* Leigh Lineage - Burke's Peerage and Baronetage Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary, Vol 2
=== Agnes de Leigh; married 1st Richard de L ===
Agnes de Leigh; married 1st Richard de Lymm and had a son (Thomas, took mother's name); married 2nd William de Hawardyn; married 3rd William Venables and by him had [John]. Burke's Peerage]
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Following Copied from "Leigh and Legh of High Legh" website, www.users.totalise.co.uk:
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The Leigh Family of West Hall
D. & S. Lysons in Magna Britannia, give details of the relationship of several branches of the Legh and Leigh families and the notes below shown indented are simplified from this source. The Leighs of West Hall arrived in High Legh about 70
years after the Leghs of East Hall.
"Egerton Leigh of West Hall in High Legh and Twemlow, Esq. is descended from Richard Lymme who in the late 13th century married Agnes the daughter and sole heiress of Richard de Legh. Agnes had a second husband, William Venables, and they had a
son, John, who (also) took the name of Legh and settled at Booths. William Venables was descended from Gilbert Venables the first baron of Kinderton who held land in Cheshire under Hugh Lupus after the Norman Conquest.
Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
Page: 1674
*Forrest=fathers direct line,! dna connections
@Stolp=mothers direct line
+Tamer=husbands direct line
#Wallace & ^Stuetelberg=son-in-laws direct lines
all lines separated.With multiple marks cross over lines
without documentations all is speculative/with ???
=== !Visitations of Cheshire ===
!Visitations of Cheshire
=== Agnes de Legh, daughter of Richard Legh ===
Agnes de Legh, daughter of Richard Legh, Lord of the Moiety of High Legh, had three husbands: Richard de Limme; William de Hawarden; William Venables.
=== note ===
vol pg 647, Burkes Landed Gentry
vol 1, pg 472, "The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester" by George Ormerod
vol 4,pg. 531, Burke's Commoners etc
Please tell me about ANY errors, as this data base is constantly improving. If the name you want is not in this data base, I don't have it.
=== OMEROD'S HISTORY OF CHESHIRE, VOL 1 P.35 ===
OMEROD'S HISTORY OF CHESHIRE, VOL 1 P.350, 351, 381, 382, 383;
Preferred Parents:
Father: Richard de Legh, b. 1220 in West Hill High Legh Cheshire England d. ABT 1287 in West Hall, High Legh, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Mother: Margery De HOLGROVE, b. 1225 in West Hall, High Legh, Cheshire, England d. 1250 in Cheshire, England
Family 1: William de Hawarden,
Family 2: Richard de Lymm, b. 1230 in Lymm, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom d. 1280 in High Legh, Cheshire, England
- m. BEF 1278
- m. BEF 1260 in England
- Agnes de Legh, b. 1248 in High Legh, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom d. 1300 in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Sources:
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Agnes De Legh or Leigh -
Author: The History of Cheshire, Ormerod, George Esq., LL.D., F.S.A., 2nd Edition by Thomas Helsby, Esq, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1882, Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, Provo, UT 84604, Page number: Vol. 1, p. 451; Vol. 3, p. 199, 661
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2332820711
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Agnes De Legh or Leigh -
Author: History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, John Burke {1834-1838}, Page number: IV:531
Note: Source Media Type: Book
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741117
- Title: Wikitree
Note: Wikitree is variable in dependability. The research for the Savage tree is given throughout and well documented.
- Title: 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
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/historyofcountyp00orme/page/352/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Hawardyn;
- Title: Agnes de Legh
Author: Wiki
Publication: Name: https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Agnes_de_Legh_(2);
Note: Family history and sources
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Agnes De Legh or Leigh -
Author: The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, George Ormerod. Harleian Society Publishers, 1882, Page number: Vol 1; p 472
Note: Source Media Type: Book
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742405
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Agnes De Legh or Leigh -
Author: Burke's Landed Gentry, Page number: 647
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742410
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Agnes De Legh or Leigh -
Author: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley {1999}, Page number: 1674
Note: Source Media Type: Book
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742367
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