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John St Leger
- Preferred Name: John St Leger[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
- Alternate Name: John Saint Leger
- Gender: M
- NFS ID: with note: Description: 9ZCQ-JF5
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- Death: MAY 1442 in England
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
- Title+(Nobility): with note: Description: Lord of the Manor of Ulcombe, which is not noble but purchaseable
- Occupation: Sheriff of Kent1430
- They+had+9+children+in+just+13+years,+5+boys+and+4+girls.: with note: Alice St. LEGER
Ralph St. LEGER (Sir)
Thomas St. LEGER (Sir Knight)
Bartholomew St. LEGER
Florence St. LEGER
Isabel St. LEGER
James St. LEGER of Shipton (Sir)
John St. LEGER
Margaret St. LEGER (B. Clinton of Marstoke)
- Birth: ABT 1404 in Ulcombe, Kent, England at LATI: N1.2086 LONG: E0.6495
- FSID: L63Y-TFW
- Calendar+of+Lambeth+Wills: 12 DEC 1441 in England with note: Description: St. Leger, Seyntleger, John, esq. Ulcumbe, Kent. 1441 483 Chichele, i.
- Burial: AFT 16 MAY 1442 in All Saints Church, Ulcombe, Kent, England at LATI: N1.2173 LONG: E0.6427
- Notes:
=== _FA1: 1431 Sheriff of Kent 1 _FA2: Bras ===
_FA1: 1431 Sheriff of Kent 1 _FA2: Brass in Ulcombe Church Note: There are two lines of lineage shown for John St. Leger. The lineage of the St. Leger family can not be substantiated far beyond John St. Leger and his wife Margery Donnett. There are at least two different versions. From the Visitations for 1619 their lineal line of descent can be substantiated from John downwards. Squire and heir firstly of his uncle John St. Leger and of his father Arnold St. Leger he was heir to a considerable fortune and one of the richest people in the South of England. Sheriff of Kent in 1431 and Commissioner of the Nobles of Kent in 1434. Elector for Kent 1432/33/35/37. In 1453 40 shillings was paid to his widow for wages due from Parliament at Liecester. The brass of himself and his wife Margery was on their tomb at Ulcombe. Hers has disappeared. They are in the St. Leger Chapel. Sources: Tim Haller, 1996 RootsWeb :571721
=== !Burke's "The Commoners of Great Britain ===
!Burke's "The Commoners of Great Britain & Ireland" 942 D2bc 1977 Vol 3. Surrey Q942 H2vsur. Visitation of Kent G.S. 942 D23br p. 621. John Lord of Ulcomb, Hollingbourne, Pluckley, Elnothington, etc. 1431 Sheriff of Kent.
=== !Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Cen ===
!Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists. The Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the North American Colonies before 1701 by David Faris First Edition.
=== !Archive Family Group Sheet as child fro ===
!Archive Family Group Sheet as child from Lodge-Archdall msss pedigree of St. Leger (Doneraile) Fuller's Worthies; Visitation of Devon 1620; Annery deeds in Devon and Cornwall rec office; Bishop of Exeter's mg lics;
=== _FA1: 1431 Sheriff of Kent 1 _FA2: Bras ===
_FA1: 1431 Sheriff of Kent 1 _FA2: Brass in Ulcombe Church Note: There are two lines of lineage shown for John St. Leger. The lineage of the St. Leger family can not be substantiated far beyond John St. Leger and his wife Margery Donnett. There are at least two different versions. From the Visitations for 1619 their lineal line of descent can be substantiated from John downwards. Squire and heir firstly of his uncle John St. Leger and of his father Arnold St. Leger he was heir to a considerable fortune and one of the richest people in the South of England. Sheriff of Kent in 1431 and Commissioner of the Nobles of Kent in 1434. Elector for Kent 1432/33/35/37. In 1453 40 shillings was paid to his widow for wages due from Parliament at Liecester. The brass of himself and his wife Margery was on their tomb at Ulcombe. Her's has disappeared. They are in the St. Leger Chapel. Sources: Tim Haller, 1996. RootsWeb :571721
=== The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal ===
The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal Anderson's Royal Genealogies
Preferred Parents:
Father: Arnold de St. Leger, b. ABT 1374 in Ulcombe, Kent, England d. 1431 in Ulcombe, Kent, England
Mother: Joane de Luxembourg, b. ABT 1382 in Ulcombe, Kent, England d. 1406 in Ulcombe, Kent, England
Family 1: Margery Donnet, b. ABT 1408 in England d. 1442 in Ulcombe, Kent, England
- Bartholomew St Leger, d. BEF 12 APR 1516
- Ralph St Leger, b. 1430 in Ulcombe, Kent, England, United Kingdom d. 1470 in Ulcombe, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Sources:
- Title: John Seyntleger - Will 12 December 1441
Author: Medieval & Tudor Kent Wills at Lambeth - Book 23 Page 248
Publication: Name: https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/Lbth/Bk23/page%20248.htm;
- Title: John St. Leger in the England, Extracted Parish and Court Records, 1399-1795 - dseath
Author: Obituaries prior to 1800; Author: Musgrave, William, Sir, 1735-1800; Armytage, George J., Sir, 1842-1918
Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/61519/records/8413;
Note: Name: John St. Leger
Death Date: 1442
Death Place: England
Title: Musgrave's Obituaries Prior to 1800, part 5
- Title: John Saint Leger, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-TYY5 : 1 April 2023), John Saint Leger, ; Burial, Ulcombe, Maidstone Borough, Kent, England, All Saints Churchyard; citing record ID 50814410, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-TYY5;
Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50814410/john-saint_leger
John Saint Leger
BIRTH 1404 Kent, England
DEATH 16 May 1442 (aged 37–38) Kent, England
BURIAL All Saints Churchyard
Ulcombe, Maidstone Borough, Kent, England
MEMORIAL ID 50814410
- Title: UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975
Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/1610/records/1204719;
- Title: John St Leger [wikipedia.org]
Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_St_Leger_(died_1441)
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_St_Leger_(died_1441);
Note: John St Leger (died 1441) of Ulcombe, Kent, was Sheriff of Kent in 1430. He was a son of Arnold St Leger, of Ulcombe, MP for Kent. He married Margery Donet, daughter and heiress of James Donet (died 1409) of Silham in the parish of Rainham, Kent. He died in 1441 and was buried in the chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr in the parish church of Ulcumbe, as he requested in his will. His Latin will dated 12 December 1441 survives in the records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
- Title: John St Leger (abt. 1400 - 1442) [wikitree.com]
Publication: Name: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/St_Leger-23;
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