Sir Peter Leigh 
Sir Peter was born about 1420 in Lyme, Cheshire, England. Sir Peter's father was Sir Peter Leigh and his mother was Joan Haydock. His paternal grandparents were Sir Piers Legh and Margaret Danyers; his maternal grandfather was Sir Gilbert Haydock. He was an only child. He died in 1478.General Notes
SIR PETER LEGH, knt. of Lyme and Haydock, who enrolling himself under the banner of York, in the wars of the Roses, received the honour of knighthood, at the battle of Wakefield. He m. Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux, of Sephton, and dying in 1478, (Inq. p. m. 18th EDWARD IV.) was s. by (the son of his only son, Peter Legh, of Haydock, by Mabell, his wife, daughter and heiress of Sir James Croft, of Dalton)
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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.~ 1280 in Booths Hall, Norbury, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1310 in Adlington, Cheshire, England d.1370
- b.~ 1288 in Adlington, Cheshire, England d.< 1352
- b.~ 1334 in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England d.09 Nov 1382
- b.~ 1285 in Handforth, Stockport, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1315 in Handforth, Stockport, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1290 in Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1370 in Lyme, Cheshire, England d.01 Aug 1399 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1290 in Aldford, Cheshire, England d.1350 in Aldford, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1317 in Alvanley, Cheshire, England d.1379
- b.~ 1295 in Kinderton, Cheshire, England
- b.1350 in Alvanley, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1290 in Alvanley, Runcorn, Cheshire, England d.< 1356
- b.~ 1326 in Alvanley, Runcorn, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1292 in Aldford, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1390 in Lyme, Cheshire, England d.1422 in Paris, France
- b.~ 1285 in Bradley, Cheshire, England d.1374 in Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1325 in Bradley-Clifton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1300 in Over Tabley, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1345
- b.~ 1295 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1325 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1308 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1372 in Bradley, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1420 in Lyme, Cheshire, England d.1478
- b.~ 1380 in Haydock, Lancastershire, England
- b.~ 1400 in Haydock, Lancastershire, England d.1439
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They had a son named Peter.
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Children
Peter Leigh
Peter was born about 1440 in Lyme, Cheshire, England. He died in 1468 in Lyme, Cheshire, England.
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