Thomas Lee, Esq., of Nordley Regis

Sir Thomas Lee Esq., of Nordley Regis was born in 1470 at Shropshire, England.2 He was baptized circa 1482 at Alveley Parish, Shropshire, England.3 Son of John de Lea (d 1478) and Elizabeth Corbin.

He married Joanna Morton.

5 sons, 7, daughters

Children include:

• Sir Humphrey Lee of Coton Hall+ b. 1506, d. 6 Dec 1588 married Catherine Blount

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• General:

   LEE Family Lineage according to Burke's Peerage:

   The Lee Family of Stanton, Roden and afterwards of Langley and Coton

   Hall, Shropshire, is stated in Burke's Baronetcies to be ONE of the

   oldest in England. Eyton's treating of Reyner de la Lee about 1195 gives

   also an unbroken descent through the Stantons, of Stanton Hineheath from

   1086 to 1173-4. Begins with HUGO DE LEGA, 1100, whose son; Reginald de la

   Lee is identified with the above. He was Sheriff 1201 and one of the

   knights known as REINER DE LEGA at the assizes October 1203. Hereceived

   a grant of land from William, son of William FitzAlan and accordingto

   the pedigree had a son; Sir John de la Lee, but evidence produced by

   Eyton and Sir William Hardy, late Keeper of the Records in the Duchy of

   Lancaster, shows that Reyner's son was really,… Sir Thomas de la Lee,

   given as his grandson in the pedigree. He married Petronilla, daughter of

   Sir Thomas Corbet(Sheriff) in time of King Henry 3rd of England, king

   from 1266-1272.

   Sir Thomas de la Lee had THREE sons:

   a. Sir John de la Lee;

   b. Reyner or Reginaldde la Lee, to whom he gave the V. of Lee, Pevenhull

   7c, and

   c. Thomas de laLee, this latter married Petronilla de Stanton about

   14(?) and had a SON: SIR JOHN DE LA LEE , (stated as being a nephew of a

   Sir John de la Lee of Stanton, & Roden), married Matilda de Erdington and

   had (with a daughter, Matilda), two (2) sons:

   (a) Sir John de la Lee, succeeded by his son John, (immediately below)

   and (b) Thomas de la Lee of Okehurst.

   Sir John de Lee, who is shown by Eyton to have been succeeded by HIS son,

   Sir John de Lee, who was succeeded by HIS son, Sir Robert de Lee * of

   Roden (b. 1392).

   Robert Lee (b. 1392)married Petronilla, a daughter of Roger Lee of

   Pimhill, by his wife, Joan, daughter of and heir of Edward Burnell of

   Aston Burnell, and Langley and was succeeded by HIS son: Sir Ralph de Lee

   of Lee Hall, Langley Aston, Burnell, 1447. He married first Isabella, and

   second Isabella, a daughter of James Ridley, and died December 14, 1479.

   Sir Ralph was succeeded by HIS son: Sir Richard de Lee of Langley and

   married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Fulke Sprenchose and had

   five sons and two daughters. He was succeeded by HIS 2 sons: Sir Fulke

   Lee** of Langley; married Alice, daughter of Sir Richard Cromwell, and

   secondly Elizabeth, daughter of John Leighton. He was succeeded by HIS

   son ** [Thomas was Fulke's brother, not his son, Burke is in error here]

   and heir: Sir Thomas Lee of Langley and he married Jane, daughter of Sir

   RobertMorton and had five sons and seven daughters. He, Sir Richard Lee,

   died in 1591 and was succeeded by HIS oldest son: Sir Richard Lee of

   Langley, who married Eleanor, daughter of Walter Wrottesley and had four

   sons and six daughters. He, Sir Richard Lee, died in 1591 and was

   succeeded by his oldest son.

   Our Lee Lineage ends with one of his daughters, Dorothy Lee who married

   Thomas Mackworth.

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   Return, please, to (b) THOMAS DE LA LEE of Okehurst. Records of the

   second visitation make him the father of: Roger Lee, who had a son; Roger

   Lee who married Margaret, sister and heiress of Thomas Astley of Nordley,

   whose descent is given by Eyton from the time of King Henry First of

   England (b. 1068-1135) king from 1100-1135, the youngest and only

   "ENGLISH-BORN SON OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR according to tradition, at

   Selby, Yorkshire. The first visitation shows that RogerLee, Margaret's

   husband, was of the Second House, and it is probable that hewas a son,

   and not a grandson, to THOMAS LEE OF OKEHURST, who died about 1419 and

   was succeeded by HIS son: John Lee. *Robert Lee (b. 1392) was another

   son.

   Robert Lee (b. 1392) married Petronilla, a daughter of Roger Lee of

   Pimhill, by his wife, Joan, daughter of and heir of Edward Burnell of

   Aston Burnell, and Langley and was succeeded by HIS son: 

• page 319 of The visitation of Shropshire, taken in the year 1623 by Treswell, Robert; Vincent, Augustine, ca. 1584-1626; Camden, William, 1551-1623; Grazebrook, George, 1831-1917 ed; Rylands, J. Paul (John Paul), b. 1846 joint ed; College of Arms (Great Britain) Published 1889.  Part 2 of 2.  "Lee of Roden, Nordley, Langley, and Cotton."