Heiress Agnes de Legh of West Hall 
Agnes was born about 1250 in West Hall, High Legh, Cheshire, England. Agnes' father is Richard de Legh. Her paternal grandfather is William de Legh. She is an only child.General Notes
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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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.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1085 in Venables, Normandie, France
- b.~ 1115 in High Legh, Chester, England
- b.1135 in West Hall, High Legh, Cheshire, England
- b.1160
- b.1185
- b.~ 1250 in West Hall, High Legh, Cheshire, England
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They had a son named John.
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