Isabel (Stanley) Legh (1413 - 1460)

Born 1413 in Hooton, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Legh — married after 26 Aug 1424 in Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died 1460 at about age 47 in Adlington, Cheshire, England

Biography

Isabel was the daughter of Sir William Stanley^{[1] [2]} of Hooton. "The Sequestration Papers of Thomas Pigott of Chetwynd" record Isabel's given name as Mabel.^[3]

On 7th day before the Kalends of September, 1424, which was 26 August, at Frascati, Pope Martin V issued a mandate to the bishop of Lichfield, to dispense Robert de Legh, donsel, and Isabel Stanley, daughter of William Stanley, knight, of his diocese, to contract and solemnize marriage notwithstanding an impediment of quasi-affinity (impedimentum publice honestatis justicie) arising from the fact that Robert, when in or about his fifth year, and the late Isabel Savage (related to the above Isabel Stanley in the second degree of kindred), when in her seventh year, contracted espousals, Isabel Savage dying after cohabiting for eight years with Robert.^[1]

Isabel was the second wife of Robert de Legh of Adlington, and they married sometime after 26 August, 1424.^[1]

Isabel and Robert were the parents of:

1. Robert Leigh, married Ellin, daughter of Sir Robert Booth of Dunham, he died 8 January, 2 Henry VI,^[2] which was 1424;
2. Margaret, was married to 1) Thomas Mere of Mere,^[2] and 2) Robert Reddish of Catteral;
3. Margaret, was married to William Davenport, of Bromhall;^[2]
4. Isabel, was married to 1) Sir Laurence Warren of Poynton, and 2) Sir George Holdford;^[2]
5. Maud, was married to John Mainwaring of Pever;^[2]
6. Agnes, was married to Sir Andrew Brereton;^[2]
7. Ellen, was married to John Pigot of Chetwynd, Shropshire,^[3] (— wife of — Picott of Chetwind^[2]);

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} "Lateran Regesta 243: 1423-1424," in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 7, 1417-1431, ed. J A Twemlow (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1906), 360-366. British History Online, (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol7/pp360-366 : accessed 8 June, 2022). f. 240.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} John Paul Rylands, ed., The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 Made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with Numerous Additions and Continuations, Including Those from the Visitation of Cheshire Made in the Year 1566, by the Same Herald. With an Appendix, Containing the Visitation of a Part of Cheshire in the Year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms. And a Fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the Year 1591, Made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy to the Office of Arms, (London: Harleian Society, XVIII, 1882), 151, e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/visitationofches00glov/page/151/mode/1up : accessed 10 June, 2022). Pedigree: Leigh of Adlington.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Rev W G D Fletcher, MA, ed, "The Sequestration Papers of Thomas Pigott of Chetwynd" Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Part I, 3rd Series, Vol VI (1906) 71. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/transactionsofsh36shro/page/n166/mode/1up : accessed 9 June, 2022).

See Also:

• Renaud, F. (1867). Contributions Towards a History of the Ancient Parish of Prestbury inn Cheshire, 97, pp. 69. Google Books. (see pedigree of Pigot of Butley, Chetwynd, and Bonishall, p. 70).[1]