LEE

1. Reginald/Reyner de la Lee.

1.1. Thomas de la Lee. “Reiner de Lee, with consent of Thomas his son and heir, and for the souls and health of himself and Hawise his wife, gave to Haghmon Abbey 2s. rent which David de Weston held. He m. Petronilla, daughter of Sir Richard Corbet, Sheriff of Shropshire.

1.1.1. John de la Lee, m. Matilda de Erdington. In 5 Edw. II. (1312). “Thomas de Lee and Petronilla his wife give to John de Lee and to Matilda, daughter of Henry de Erdinton, all their land, whether sown or unsown, in Roden.” (Eyton 9, 298, 1859).

1.1.1.1.1. Roger de la Lee, given as eldest (“primus”) son in the “Visitation”. ‘Pateat universis’ etc. Roger de la Lee son and heir of John de la Lee releases etc to the Abbot and convent of Haghmon all his right etc. in lands etc in Hadenhale which Hugh de la Chene once held. Witnesses: Peter Corbet of Morton, John de Lodelowe, Peter de Caverswall, kts, Richard Husee, Will Banastre of Yorton, Edmund de Burghton”. (S.A., 6000/5432)”.

“Roger Astley died at Michaelmas, 1361,2 and in the February following a Jury found that, owing to the late pestilence, much land in Nordley was lying idle, and the Manor could not carry the annual rent of £9 due to the King’s Exchequer, which, however, the King had granted to Roger for life. His grandson Thomas, son of Thomas, was his heir, and was only three weeks old. This Thomas died in June, 1376, and Nordley passed to Margaret, his sister, then upwards of 22 years of age, and already married to Roger atte Lee; and with her descendants, the Lees of Coton, it remained until the present century. Esc. 50 Edw. III., 1st Nos., No. 1a. The Writ will be found under No. 72, Ibid. It is worth noticing that the pedigree of Lee, printed in the Visitation of Shropshire already referred to, is at variance with the abstracts of documents printed with it. Mr. Eyton has demolished the supposed descent Roger Lee of Coton, and I cannot find that he has substituted any other in its place. See vol. ix., 294; vi., 38, &c.”. (W. H. B. Bird, Trans. Shrop. Arch., p. 66, 1892).

Roger de la Lee is sometimes confounded with his son, and is named as Robert (Harl. fol. 261b).

1.1.1.1.1.1. Robert Lee, b. ca. 1365. Robert Lee lord of Rodon and Petronilla his wife grant and farm let to John Hugyns and his wife the Manor of Staunton on Hyneheth with all lands, demesnes etc., except ponds and the conynger and pleas and perquisites of the lord’s court of his tenants there. To hold to John and his wife for the life of both and of the longer liver. (S.A., X1514/3/27/473). Petronilla widow of Robert Lee of Longley esq and Ralph Lee of Longley, son and heir, give etc to Thomas Banastre of Hadnale and Elizabeth his wife their kinsfolk, all their lands in Hadnale. (S.A., X6000/28/2/5439).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Ralph de Lee, of Roden and Langley, b. ca. 1410; d. December 5, 1479. Aug. 4, 1439. Sciant presentes’ etc. Petronilla widow of Robert Lee of Longley esq and Ralph Lee of Longley, son and heir, give etc to Thomas Banastre of Hadnale and Elizabeth his wife their kinsfolk, all their lands in Hadnale. (S.A., X6000/28/2/5439).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard Lee, b. ca. 1440; d. 1520. He m. Margery, dau. of Sir Fulke Sprenchose, and Margery, dau. of John Wynnesbury, Sheriff of Shrop.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Fulk Lee, b. ca. 1460. He m. (1) Elizabeth (dau. of John Leighton), and sister of Thomas Leighton, father of Margaret Leighton, wife of John Harris of Cruckton. 1487. Fulk Lee, son and heir of Richard Lee of Langeley, Esq. (Langley, 10 miles from Cruckton). Elizabeth his wife, Thomas Leghton, knt. William Leghton and John Horde, gentlemen, feoffees in all the lands and tenements of Richard in the township and fields of Alderton. 2. Walter Amys of Alderton. A messuage in the township of Alderton Witnesses: John Downton of Alderton, Thomas Hochekys of the same, Thomas Draper of Burghton. (S.A., X1514/3/22/1/409)

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Lee, b. ca. 1500; d. 1562; m. Jane, dau. of Sir Robert Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Henry Vernon and Anne Talbot, dau. of John Talbot, 2nd Earl Shrewsbury and Elizabeth Butler.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard Lee of Langley, b. ca. 1530. Feb. 1562. The Hon. Sir William Cecil, knt, Master of the Queen’s Court of Ward and Liveries. 2. Richard Lee, Esq., son & heir of Thomas Lee Esq., decd. The Queen has agreed to grant to Rd Lee livery to be had of & in all the manors, lordships etc. which sd Rd has inherited from sd Thos Lee. Rd has agreed that an account shall be rendered of the lordships by one of the Queen’s auditors at such time as the Queen or the Master or Surveyor shall please.

Richard Lee of Langley m. Eleanor (dau. of Walter Wrottesley, Esq., and Isabel, dau. of John Harcourt Esq., and Margaret Bracy); sister of Elizabeth Wrottesley, who m. John Talbot, having issue: Margaret Talbot,* who m. (ca. 1579), (1) Richard Ligon (d. 1584), son of William Ligon and Eleanor Denys; having issue: John Lygon (b. 1581, d. 1644), of Arle Court, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He m. his cousin. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Arnold Ligon, having issue: Katherine Ligon, his heir, who m. Sir Fleetwood Dormer, who, as heretofore given, m. (2) Mary Harris, kinswoman of Mary Harris, who m. Thomas Ligon, having issue: Joan Ligon, wife of Robert Hancock. (2) William Blount, son of Thomas Blount and Catherine Stanford. (3) Sir Arnold Lygon (son of Henry Ligon and Elizabeth Berkeley), as heretofore given.

*Margaret Talbot was the half-sister of Constance Talbot, who m. George Blount, M.P., having issue: Dorothy Blount, who m. (1) John Purslowe of Sudbury, as his 2nd wife. Their dau., Katherine Purslowe, m. Richard Hill of Bickley, having issue: Dorothy Hill, who m. John Holland of Pickthorn, son of Michael Holland of Pickthorne, the son of Thomas Holland, and Alicia, “fil. Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne”, second-cousin of Richard Cocke, of “Malvern Hills”, Henrico.

1.1.1.1.1.2. John de la Lee, b. 1398, m. Joyce, dau. of Sir John Packington.

1.1.1.1.1.2.1. John de la Lee, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas (not John) Corbin, of West Brom., Staffs.

1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Thomas de la Lee, of Nordley (i.p.m. 1526), m. Johanna, dau. of Robert Morton, of Houghton, Shrop. “Robert Morton was evidently twice married, Johanna being his daughter by his ist wife: he afterward married Jocasa, eldest daughter of Thomas Lee of Langley”. (Edward Campbell Mead, Genealogical History of the Lee Family of Virginia, p. 46, 1871).

1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. Humphrey Lee, of Coton, in Alveley Parish, Shrop (b. 1506, d. Dec. 6, 1588), m. Katherine, dau. of John Blount, of Hereford, son of Humphrey Blount and Elizabeth Winnington, dau. of Robert Winnington and Katherine, dau. of Ralph Holland.

1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. John Lee Esq. d. 1605, m. (1553), Joyce, dau. of John Romney, of Luisley, Worcestershire

1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Richard Lee, gent., of Coton, 6th son, bapt. Alveley (Stottesdon Hundr.) Oct. 6, 1563, m. Elizabeth Bendy (in St Mary’s Alveley on Oct. 21, 1599), relict of William Bendy, who m. Elizabeth Brooke on June 24 1590, in Worfield. She was bapt on Sept. 8, 1566, daughter of John Brooke of Raughton”. Richard Lee was alive on Oct. 21, 1621, when he received £15 pounds in the Will of his brother, Capt. Gilbert Lee (d. 1621), of Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex. Alveley (St. Mary), a parish, partly within the liberty of the borough of Bridgnorth, but chiefly in the hundred of Stottesden, union of Bridgnorth, S. division of Shropshire, 6½ miles (S. S. E.) from Bridgnorth; containing, with Nordley-Regis township, and Romsley liberty in the borough of Bridgnorth.

1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Col. Richard Lee of Virginia.

1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2. John Lee. Lacon v Lee Plaintiffs: Rowland Lacon. Defendants: John Lee and Richard Lee. Subject: messuage and land in Nordley Regis, Shropshire. 1603-1625. (C 2/JasI/L11/14).

Jacqueli Finley 2023. Parents of Colonel Richard Lee:

“In 1988, a study by William Thorndale was published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, he stated that his research proved that Col Richard Lee was the son of a John Leyes, a clothier, and his wife Jane Hancock and that Richard had been born not at of Coton Hall in Shropshire England, but in Worcester England. In this publishing, Thorndale presented what appeared to be legitimate sources and arguments which carefully and systematically dispelled the accepted ancestral lineage of Col Richard Lee from the prominent English Lee’s from Shropshire. Since that publishing, it appears that most of the research today has adopted this parentage of Richard Lee from this John Lyes and Jane Hancock assertion, even though this 1988 publishing had overridden the legal and historic documented facts that stated otherwise. I have discovered that there is no evidence of historical documentation that can back up Thorndale’s claim.

“This probably does not surprise many of you who research the Lee family that deal with more than often heated arguments, hidden records that were available no longer visible, mis-information, lines that seem to go nowhere and let us not forget the documented lines that constantly get thrown out of the Lee family because of purportedly wrong DNA matches from DNA projects that promote DNA from individuals whose lines cannot be properly verified, which by the way is an inappropriate misuse of DNA material and possible illegal (or will be in the near future when laws about DNA are updated) regardless of what is being said.

“My research concludes, as I will demonstrate, that the whole John Leys (AKA Lee, Lies, etc.) and Jane Hancock as Col Richard Lee’s parents is incorrect and possibly made up from a personal GEDCOM or research as there are no legitimate parish sources or records, other than Thorndale’s publishing in 1988.

“I am confident that my conclusions that are based on factual evidence and publicly verifiable documentation refuting Thorndale’s research on the “Parents of Col Richard Lee of Virginia” publishing and findings on Col Richard Lee are false. William Thorndale uses the Family Search Data Collection as his sourcing for his section of research where he determines that the parents for Col Richard Lee are John Leyes and Jane Hancock in his article which leads to no corresponding UK records.

“My research and evidence proves that Col. Richard Lee was the son of Richard Lee of Coton and Elizabeth Bendy.”

The ancestry of Richard Lee, who m. Elizabeth Bendy is given by Frederick Lewis Weis, William Ryland Beall, “The Magna Charta Sureties”, pp. 164/5, 5th edition, 1999).

I do not find any records alluded to by Thorndale. There are no records of a Richard Lee being born to Richard Lee, gent., of Coton.

Did William Lee of Langley, brother of Richard Lee. “sharman” of St. Chad’s have a son, Richard?

by m stanhope, copyright B.T. Shannon 2024