Alanus Leche, 2nd Lord Leche, Keeper of Stanton

The transaction is thus recorded by Thoroton, who saw the written account of it about 1675.
«Robert (de Ferrariis, Grandchild of Henry, before named) Earl of Nottingham gave to Alan de Leca, the nephew of Elfast, the town of Leche, where the Mother Church is, with all the Appurtenances, and twelve Bovats of land in his the said Earl's Leche, which were the said Alan's Parents, and in Stantun, (Stanton Tewkebury?) as much as belonged to the said Earl's Fee, and divers other lands in the County of Leicester; for which the said Alan gave the Earl sixty Marks, and a certain bay Horse.»
This sale may have taken place as early as 1140, for in the following year this Alan was a chief witness of Earl Robert's confirmation of a certain gift of Tithes to Tutbury Monastery. He is there named as Alan de Leca — a designation which suggests that he was lord of a manor».
In 1141, Alan de Leca was a chief witness, when Earl Robert Ferrers offered his knife on the alatar for confirming the gift of the Tythes, of the rents of the new borough, which his father and he had increased at Tuttlebury. He, with the consent of his son and heir Henry, confirmed the Church of Leke to those Canons, which the Lord Ferrers confirmed.
Aln de Lec, by the consent of his son and heir, Henry, gave certain lands in Westlec to the Canons of Calc.
Alan is a legendary founder of noble houses:
Leke of Staunton, Leche of Carden and Leech of Chatsworth.

Lechlade, or Lechlade-on-Thames, is a town at the southern edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It is the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable. The town is named after the River Leach that joins the Thames near The Trout Inn.

LEKE. [Throsby] West-Leke and East-Leke.

The family which took its name from this village (of Leake) naturally claims first place in these notices.

East Leake is in the parish of Rushcliffe, a district in Leicestershire.

Cox' says, that after some continuance here the Leakes migrated, some to Sutton-in-Scarsdale, in Derbyshire, and others to Stanton or Staunton, in Leicestershire. The latter branch changed their name to Staunton. Staunton Harold is so called from Harold de Leca who resided there. Another branch of the family settled at Hallam by Southwell.

In Leche, before the Conquest, Godric (who had also one in Plumptre) had a Manor which was taxed to the Dane Geld, as two Bovats three Quarters. The Land was four Bovats.- - There afterwards, Ernulph the Man, or Tenant of Roger de Busli (fn. 1) (whose Fee it was) had two Carucats, two Vill. with Half a Car. and eight Acres of Meadow. In the Time of King Edward the Confessor, the Value of this was 40s. in King Wil-liam's but 10s. The principal Manor in Leche, before the Norman Invasion Suivard had, and for it paid the Tax, as two Carucats. The Land of it was then for six Plows, or six Carucats. There Henry de Ferrariis had afterwards in Demesne four Car. sixteen Sochm. sixteen Vill. having seventeen Car. (or Plows).

[1] British online history

[2] History of Nottinghamshire, Volume 1 By Robert Thoroton

[1] History of Nottinghamshire, Volume 1, By Robert Thoroton