Robert de Legh

  General Notes:

~Ormerod's History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, vol. I p. 499, Vol. II, 142, Vol. III, p. 379, Legh of Adlington Pedigree, p. 661 ⁷¹³

~The Visitation of the County of Palatine of Lancaster, Made in the Year 1567, p. 64
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁶³
Robert de Legh, of Adlington, had two wifes. The first was Sybil, daughter of Henry de Honford, by whom she had Robert, ancestor of the Leghs of Adlington, who carry the Venables coat of arms, quarting the arms of Corona.

Robert's second wife was Matilda, daughter of Adam de Norley, by his wife Margeria, daughter and heir of John son of Warin de Waleton in Leyland Hundred, in Lanchashire. She was coheir, along with her sister Katharine, wife of William Radcliffe. By Matilda, he had two sons, Piers and John. Piers de Legh married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Danyers, by his wife Isabella, daughter and heiress of Sir William Baggiley.

~Visitation of Lancashire and a Part of Cheshire: Made in the Twenty-Fourth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, A.D. 1533, Part II, p.

Robert married Matilda de Norley, daughter of Adam de Norley and Margery Fitz Warine, after 1336 in Legh, Cheshire, England ^713,745.^,763

Robert next married Sybil de Honford, daughter of Henry de Honford and Unknown, in 1320 in Adlington, Cheshire, England.⁷⁶³ (Sybil de Honford was born in 1296 in Honford, Cheshire, England and died after 1336 in Adlington, Cheshire, England ⁷¹³.)