Sir Piers Legh 
Sir Piers was born about 1370 in Lyme, Cheshire, England. Sir Piers' father was Robert De Legh and his mother was Matilda De Arderne. His paternal grandparents were Robert De Legh and Sybil de Honford; his maternal grandparents were Sir John de Arderne and Ellen De Wasteneys. He had a brother and a sister, named Sir Robert and Katherine. He was the youngest of the three children. He had a half-brother named Sir George. He died on August 1st, 1399 in Chester, Cheshire, England.General Notes
SIR PIERS LEGH, knt. younger son of Robert Legh, of Adlington, who d. temp. RICHARD II. and of Matilda, his wife, dau. and co-heiress of Sir John de Arderne, knt. married in November, 1388, Margaret,(*) only daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Danyers, knt. of Bradley, and obtained by this alliance, a grant of the lands of Hanley, now Lyme, in Macclesfield. Ormerod, in his History of the Palatinate, thus speaks of this acquisition; "When the flower of Cheshire chivalry were engaged under their earl, the BLACK PRINCE, at the battle of Cressy, Sir Thomas Danyers, was preeminently distinguished above the rest of that chosen phalanx, and in the most hazardous part of the battle, most probably when King EDWARD refused his succours, and bade 'his boy win his spurs and the honour of the day for himself,' the said Sir Thomas relieved the banner of his earl, and took prisoner the chamberlain of France, Tankerville. For this service, the Black Prince, as earl of Chester, settled on him an annuity of forty marks per annum, issuing out of his manor of Frodsham, until a convenient grant of land of the value of œ20 per annum could be made. In the 21st RICHARD II. it was finally settled that this estate should be 'the lands of Hanley, in Macclesfield forest,' which that sovereign (who in this year assumed the title of PRINCE OF CHESTER) accordingly granted to the daughter of Sir Thomas Danyers, and her third husband, Piers Legh."
Sir Piers Legh appears to have been knighted about the time of the grant, but lived only two years to enjoy it, for in 1399, when the insurgent forces of the duke of Lancaster advanced into Cheshire, Sir Piers was seized upon by that nobleman, and in consequence of his well known attachment to his ill-fated sovereign, beheaded at Chester, 1st August
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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.~ 1202 in High Leigh, West Hall, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1236 in Booths and Mobberly, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1280 in Booths Hall, Norbury, Cheshire, England
- b.1245 in Kinderton, Cheshire, England d.> 1292
- b.~ 1266 in Bradwell, Cheshire, England d.~ 1300
- b.~ 1245 in Dutton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1310 in Adlington, Cheshire, England d.1370
- b.~ 1230 in Adlington, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1260 in Adlington, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1235 in Wyroll, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1288 in Adlington, Cheshire, England d.< 1352
- b.~ 1334 in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England d.09 Nov 1382
- b.~ 1225 in Handforth, Stockport, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1255 in Handforth, Stockport, Cheshire, England d.> 1294
- b.~ 1285 in Handforth, Stockport, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1315 in Handforth, Stockport, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1235 in Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1260 in Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1290 in Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1370 in Lyme, Cheshire, England d.01 Aug 1399 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1250 in Aldford, Cheshire, England d.~ 1292
- b.~ 1270 in Aldford, Cheshire, England d.1308 in Aldford, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1250
- b.~ 1290 in Aldford, Cheshire, England d.1350 in Aldford, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1210 in North Powys, Wales d.07 Dec 1269 in Castle of Dinas Bran, Lower Powys, Wales
- b.~ 1265 in Bromfield, Somerset, England
- b.~ 1222 in Heleigh, Staffordshire, England d.> 1286
- b.~ 1317 in Alvanley, Cheshire, England d.1379
- b.1245 in Kinderton, Cheshire, England d.> 1292
- b.~ 1263 in Kinderton, Cheshire, England d.1311
- b.~ 1245 in Dutton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1295 in Kinderton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1241 in Shipbrooke, Cheshire, England d.> 1325
- b.~ 1280 in Shipbrooke, Cheshire, England d.1350
- b.~ 1250 in Dacre, Cumberland, England
- b.1350 in Alvanley, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1244 in Tixall, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1270 in Tixall, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1290 in Alvanley, Runcorn, Cheshire, England d.< 1356
- b.~ 1326 in Alvanley, Runcorn, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1220 in Aldford, Cheshire, England d.~ 1265 in Manor At Alvanley, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1250 in Aldford, Cheshire, England d.~ 1292
- b.~ 1220 in Manor at Alvanley, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1292 in Aldford, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1250
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Sir Piers and Margaret were married in a religious ceremony in November 1388. They had two sons named Sir Peter and John.
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Children
Sir Peter Leigh
Sir Peter was born about 1390 in Lyme, Cheshire, England. He died in 1422 in Paris, France.
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