Elfast de Leca, the 1st Lord of Leche

The transaction is thus recorded by Thoroton[1], 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.

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