Leising de Standish

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁰²
Ralph de Standish son of Lesing of Standish by his wife, a daughter of Richard Spileman.

~The Families of Standish, p. 3-4

• Background Information. ⁷⁵⁵
Ralph de Standish occurs in the time of Richard I, [Lancs. Pipe R. 378. He may be the Ralph de Standish son of Leising mentioned in the ancient note to a Langtree charter; Cockersand Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 514] and in 1206 agreed with Siward de Langtree as to the partition of the manor and advowson of Standish. [Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 24] He died in 1219- 20, and was succeeded, it is alleged, by a son Richard, a younger son, Alexander, having long held the rectory, and almost immediately succeeding his father in the manor. [Curia Regis R. 70, m. 16; 74, m. 8] His son Ralph followed, [Assize R. 404, m. 14 d] and left three sons, who held the manor one after another- Edmund, Hugh and Jordan. [Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 269] Jordan's eldest son, Ralph, died without issue in or before 1296, and a younger son, William, succeeded, holding the manor for nearly thirty years.

~A History of the County of Lancaster, Volume VI, pp. 192-199

Leising married Daughter of Richard de Spileman, daughter of Richard Spileman and Daughter of Warine Bussel. (Daughter of Richard de Spileman was born in 1140 in Standish, Lancashire, England.)