William St. Leger
- Born: Abt 1200, Hastings, Sussex, England
- Marriage: Sibelle Echyngham
- Died: 1250, Sussex, England about age 50
 Information about this person:
• Background Information. 1040
William St. Leger in 1242-3 held 5 ˝ fees in the honor of Hastings in Sussex; Thomas Warbleton held 2 fees [Books of Fees, 2:691]. In 1244, William had a grant of the towns of Wartling and Dallington in the rape of Hastings [Calendar of Charter Rolls, 1:279]. In 1244, he gave 12 marks for confirmation of two manors in Sussex which had been land of the Normans [Record Commission, Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviation, 1:6] The overlord had been Alice, Countess of Eu, until 1244 when the barony of Hastings was confiscated as terra Normannorum [Sanders, English Baronies, p.120]. In 1240, William St. Leger gave Geoffrey St. Leger 60 marks for a fine of the manors of Wartling and Dallington [Feet of Fines for the County of Sussex, Sussex Record Society, 2:94, no. 354] In 1237-8, William St. Leger confirmed the title of the Prior of Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, to the advowson of the church of Offley, calling himself the great grandson and heir of Alice de la Mare [Victoria History of the County of Hertford, 3:40] William succeeded and was presumably the son of Geoffrey II.
~New England Historic & Genealogical Register, Vol. 140, p. 227
William married Sibelle Echyngham, daughter of Simon Echyngham and Unknown. (Sibelle Echyngham was born about 1220.)
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