General Notes

Probably related to the Vicomte de Chartres. Fought at the Battle of Hastings. Robert St. Leger also owned lands near to Avranches.  He was already a large landowner in Sussex, England BEFORE the Norman Conquest, and is also thought to be of the family of Robert -  Count of Eu in France/St.Leger family derive their French tithes. Thought to be, with the de Clare family, descended from Robert 1st Duke of Normandy. Was Master of the Chase. With WC (William the Conquerer?) at Siege-Exeter 1068. Brompton Regis. Lord of St. Leger en Yveslines/Saint Leger des Aubees. (Source: Les St. Leger Travers L'Histoire).

Robert de Saint Leger, the "Golden Knight" was an aide-de-camp of William the Conqueror during the Conquest. (Source: Dominique de Saint Leger, email: dominique@@desaintleger.com).

Sir Robert settled in Ulcombe, Kent about 1087 after he engaged in battle a pagan Dane and ousted him from the manor at Ulcombe. The manor of Ulcombe stayed in the St. Leger family for 6 centuries until it was sold by Sir Anthony St. Leger in 1648.

Ulcombe was part of the Eyhorne Hundred mentioned in Doomsday. Possibly Robert St. Leger was Robert Count of Eu, who held Ulcombe at Doomesday of the Archbishop. Ulcombe was "assessed at 2 1/2 sulongs TRE and now of 2 sulongs only. There is land for 9 ploughs, in demesnes there are 2 ploughs and 23 villeins with 8 bordars have 7 ploughs. There is a church and 1 mill rendering 4s and 8  acres/meadow and woodland for 80 pigs. All together worth Ð10 TRE now Ð11." (Thelma Ware, 1996)