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Christiana Ledet
- Preferred Name: Christiana Ledet[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Gender: F
- FSID: L62P-74S
- Death: 8 SEP 1271 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.4783 LONG: E0.9208 with note: Replaced
- Alt. Birth: 1200 in Hertfordshire, England at LATI: N1.8375 LONG: E0.1895
- Alt. Death: 1271 in Northamptonshire, England at LATI: N2.35 LONG: E0.85
- Birth: ABT 1199 in Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England at LATI: N2.1399 LONG: E1.2617
- Burial: AFT 8 SEP 1271 in Bushmead, Bedfordshire, England at LATI: N1.9112 LONG: E0.4137
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Christian (Christiana) Ledet, heiress
d/o Wyschard Ledet & Margaret Foliot
b- Wroxton manor, Oxfordshire, England
m-1- Henry BraybrocK d- 1234
m-2- Gerarld III Furnival d-
m-3- Thomas Grelley , Lord of Pirton - d- 1262
d- 1266 - 1271 IPM
heir - Wroxton manor, Oxfordshire & Burton, Northamptonshire & Melbourn, Cambridgeshire & Ramerick manor,Ickleford, Hertfordshire
as widow of Gerard Furnvial, CHRISTIANA was granted custody of the lands & marriage of of Huband, Gerard Furnval's heir
she outlived her eldest son Wishard Ledet s/o Henry Braybroc & Wishard's son Walter Ledet - her heirs were her grandaughters, d/o Walter Ledt - Alice Ledet & Christina Ledet
as Widow - CHRISTIANA gave Burton to both Gerard Furnival he yr son, & he gave it to his elder daughter Christiana, wife of William Elylesford, it was held of John Latimer & Christiana Ledet d/o Walter Ledet - CHRISTIANA, also gave moiety of Burton to John Devereux, who held it for life, he d- 1316
8 Sept 1271 - IPM - CHIRSTIAN Ledet, late wife of Henry Ledet (Braybook)
Held - Bedfordshire - Sutton & Potton manors ; hel of Robert Brus & Wyschard Ledet & Robert Braybrooke - he had freed the manor of Sutton from jewry & gave to his son HENRY & CHRISTINA, d/o said Wychard Ledet:
she held - Cadbury manor, in dower of barony of Eton - she was dowered by her son Wychard
WYCHARD Ledet , heir of said Henry & CHRISTIANA, he had a son WALTER Ledet, he begot 2 daughters, who are the next heirs of said HENRY & CHRISTINA
CHRISTANA Ledet , the yr, age 15 (doesn't mention the other daughter Alice Ledet)
Preferred Parents:
Father: Guiscard Ledet - Baron of Chipping Warden, b. 1180 in Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England d. 1241 in Corby, Northamptonshire, England
Mother: Margaret Foliot, b. 1168 in Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England d. 1222 in Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England
Family 1: Henry de Braybrooke, b. ABT 1180 in Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, England d. BEF 13 APR 1234 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England
- m. 1217 in Wardon, Bedfordshire, England, UK
- m. ABT 1217 in Warden, Bedfordshire, England
- Wyschard de Ledet of Corby, b. 1210 in Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom d. SEP 1241 in Palestine
- Margery Braybrook, b. ABT 1224 in Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, England d. in England
- John Braybrooke, b. 1220 in Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, England d. 1293 in Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, England
Family 2: Gerald de Furnival, b. ABT 1202 in Great Munden, Hertfordshire, England d. ABT 9 JAN 1242 in Bourton, Northamptonshire, England
Sources:
- Title: Thoroton's History of Nottinnghamshire
Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=fEYUAVhnJNgC&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246&dq=sir+richard+bozom+of+barrowby&source=bl&ots=LKXqxHAUt8&sig=ACfU3U39_WhoCxsKLeXWJUrafwHkpMuUIQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFnMSlwLjuAhVDFVkFHcskDh4Q6AEwEHoECBAQAQ#v=onepage&q=sir%20richard%20bozom%20of%20barrowby&f=false;
Note: ",...Lora, daughter and heir of Gerard de Furnivalle, son of Gerard Furnival, who married Christian Leydet, and was son of Matilda de Lovetot."
- Title: British History online
- Title: Book - Geneaological History of Dormant Peerages
- Title: Genealogy Geni
Author: The Web
Page: Genealogy Geni
- Title: Christiana de Ledet Grelle, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q291-BKVX : 6 March 2021), Christiana de Ledet Grelle, ; Burial, Bushmead, Bedford Borough, Bedfordshire, England, Bushmead Priory; citing record ID 155354885, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q291-BKVX;
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