Jane Gerard

Ben M. Angel notes: Apparently she was born before 5 May 1510, in order to be daughter of Peter Leigh's first wife, Jane.

Jane (Joan) Legh was born circa 1508 / 1519 at Lyme, Prestbury, Cheshire, England, daughter of Piers (Peter) Legh (d.1541).

If she was born about 1508, her mother was Jane Gerard, Peter’s 1st wife, If born 1519, her mother was Margaret Tyldesley, his 2nd wife.

Jane was not mentioned in her father’s will written 31 Henry VIII [1539].

Family

Jane married Sir Thomas Gerard, Knight on 1526 in Bryn, Lancashire, England, the son of Sir Thomas Gerard and Margery Trafford. The marriage ended in divorce.

Jane and Thomas had children:

1. Sir Thomas Gerard, knight;[2]. was born 1536 and died Sep 1601. Married Elizabeth Port.
2. Katherine Gerard, born 1538. Married 1) William Torbock, Esq. 2) Robert Charnocke.

Will

From W M Fergusson Irvine, ed., A Collection of Lancashire and Cheshire Wills Not Now to be Found in Any Probate Registry. 1301—1752, (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, XXX, 1896), 98-100 < archive.org >

"Dame Jane Gerarde of Bromley in the countie of Staff" as she styled herself, made her last will and testament on 20 November, 1575, in which she names as executors her son Sir Thomas Gerarde, knight, her brother Sir Peter Legh knight, her son-in-law Robert Charnock, her cousin Henry Eccleston, esquires, and her trusty servant, Edmund Allat, leaving bequests to:

• her son Sir Thomas Gerard knight;
• her daughter-in-law Dame Elizabeth Gerard;
• her son's children;
• Margaret Tarbocke, niece of Jane's son Tarbocke;
• Frances Tarbocke, niece of Jane's son Tarbocke;
• her brother, Sir Peter Legh knight;
• her cousin Henry Eccleston;
• her brother George Legh;
• her son-in-law Robert Charnocke;
• her sister Ellen Standley;
• her sister Elizabeth Downes;
• her sister Ales Rowley;
• and others.

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Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham. Page 350. < GoogleBooks >

13. MARGERY STANLEY, daughter by her father's 1st marriage, married by dispensation dated 1476 PETER GERARD, Esq., of Bryn (in Ashton-in-Markerfield), Ashton (in Winwick), Rainhill (in Prescot), Skelmersdale, etc., Lancashire, and Kingsley, Cheshire, son and heir of Thomas Gerard, of Bryn (in Ashton-in-Makerfield), Ashton (in Winwick), Rainhill, Skelmersdale, etc., Lancashire, and Kinsley, Cheshire, by his 2nd wife, Cecily, daughter of Robert Foulshurst, Knt. He was born about 1460 (aged 30 in 1490). They had one son, Thomas, Knt., and four daughters, Joan (wife of Richard Done, Esq.), Isabel (wife of Richard Langton, Knt.), Jane (wife of Peter Legh, Esq.), and Alice (wife of Thomas Radcliffe, Esq.). PETER GERARD, Esq., died 20 June 1494, and was buried in the Gerard Chapel at Winwick, Lancashire. His widow, Margery, was living in 1506.

• * 14. THOMAS GERARD, Knt., of Bryn (in Ashton-in-Makerfield), Brindle, Ashton (in Winwick), and Rainhill, Windle, and Windleshaw (all in Prescot), Kirkby, and Skelmersdale, Lancashire, Woore, Shropshire, Bromley, Staffordshire, son and heir, born about 1488 (aged 6 in 1494). He married before 19 August 1511 (date of property settlement) MARGERY TRAFFORD, widow of Nicholas Longford, of Longford, Derbyshire, and daughter of Edmund Trafford, Knt., K.B., by Margaret (descendant of King Edward I), daughter of John Savage, K.G. (descendant iof King Henry II) [see TRAFFORD 13 for her ancestry]. They had five sons, Thomas, Knt., Peter, William, Gent., Henry, and James, and four daughters, Margaret (wife of Peter Legh, Knt.), Katherine (wife of Thomas Houghton, Esq.), Elizabeth (wife of Richard Bold, Esq.), and Anne (wife of Richard Assheton, Esq.), SIR THOMAS GERARD was slain fighting the Scots at Berwick-upon-Tweed 7 Nov. 1523 (his will dated 13 Sep. 1522). His widow, Margery, married (3rd) JOHN PORT (or PORTE), Knt., of Etwall, Derbyshire, Justice of the King's Bench (died testate shortly before 22 March 1539/40). She died 10 May 1540, leaving a will dated 30 April 1540, proved 5 June 1540, requesting burial in the church of Etwall, Derbyshire with her 3rd husband.
  • Children of Thomas Gerard, Knt., by Margery Trafford:
    • ' i. THOMAS GERARD, Knt., of Bryn (in Ashton-in-Makerfield), Lancashire, married JANE LEGH [see LEGH 15].
• Pg. 443
• 13. ELLEN SAVAGE, married by dispensation dated 1467 PETER LEGH, Knt., of Lyme (in Prestbury), Cheshire, and Dalton and Haydock, Lancashire, Steward of Blackburnshire, Tottington, Rochdale, and Clitheroe, son of Peter Legh, of Lyme (in Handley, Cheshire, and Dalton and Haydock, Lancashire, by Mabel, daughter and co-heiress of James Croft. He was born about 1455. They had four sons, Peter, John, Gowther, and Richard, and three daughters, including Margaret (wife of Laurence Warren, Esq.), and Alice (wife of ___ White). In his earlier life he followed the profession of arms, and was present at the siege of Berwick in 1482, where he was made a knight banneret by King Edward IV. His wife, Ellen, died at Bewganet, Sussex 17 May 1491. In 1511 he entered into holy orders and became a priest. In 1521 he joined Sir Thomas Butler and others in soliciting contributions to build Lymm steeple. he built the chapel of Disley and the Cage in Lyme Park in 1524. SIR PETER LEGH died at Lyme (in Prestbury), Cheshire 11 August 1527, leaving wills dated 1 Feb. 1521 and 1 Dec. 1522. He was buried at Winwick, Lancashire.

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• * 14. PETER LEGH, Esq., of Lyme (in Prestbury) and Bradley, Cheshire, and Dalton and Haydock, Lancashire, born about 1479 (aged 48 in 1527). He married (1st) JANE GERARD, daughter of Peter Gerard, of Bryn (in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. They had three daughters, Cecily (wife of Thomas Butler), 'Jane (or Joan)', and Anne. His wife Jane, died 5 May 1510. He married (2nd) before 1513 MARGARET DE TYLDESLEY, daughter of Nicholas de Tyldesley. They had three sons, Peter, Knt., George, and Robert, and six daughters, Katherine (wife of Peter Langton), Margaret (wife of Thomas Bruche), Ellen (wife of ___ Stanley), Elizabeth (wife of Lawrence Downes), Alice (wife of ___ Rowley), and Mary. PETER LEGH, Esq., died 4 Dec. 1541, leaving a will dated 6 Sept. 1536.
  • *' 15. JANE (or JOAN) LEGH, married before 1522 (date of his father's will) THOMAS GERARD, Knt., of Bryn (in Ashton-in-Makerfield), Ashton (in Winwick), Brindle, and Rainhill, Whindle, and Windleshaw (all in Prescot), Lancashire, Kingsley, Cheshire, and Bromley, Staffordshire, Sheriff of Lancashire, 1548, 1553, son, and heir of Thomas Gerard, Knt., of Bryn (in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Brindle, Lancashire, Kingsley, Cheshire, etc., by Margery (descendant of King Edward I), daughter of Edmund Trafford, Knt. [see GERARD 14 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1502-12 (aged 11 in 1523, aged 38 in 1540). They had one son, Thomas, Knt., and one daughter, Katherine. He also had several illegitimate children, including a son, Thomas. In 1533 he 'would not be spoken with" by the herald. In 1536 he was expected to bring a contingent of 450 men to serve against the Pilgrimage of Grace. He was made a knight in 1544 during the invasion of Scotland. In 1552 he was claiming exemptions for the suppressed chantry of Windle. SIR THOMAS GERARD was living in 1553, but was dead before 1560. His widow, Jane, then of Bromley, Staffordshire, left a will dated 20 Nov. 1575.
    • 'Child of Jane Legh, by Thomas Gerard, Knt.:
      • i. KATHERINE GERARD, married WILLIAM TORBOCK, Esq., of Tarbock (in Huyton), Lancashire [ see MANWARING 17].

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From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Jane Leigh:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p41837.htm#i418363

Jane Legh [1]

• F, #418363
• Last Edited=16 Jan 2011

Jane Legh is the daughter of Sir Peter Legh.[2]

She married Sir Thomas Gerard, son of Sir Thomas Gerard and Margery Trafford.[1] She and Sir Thomas Gerard were divorced in 1550.[1]

Her married name became Gerard.

Child of Jane Legh and Sir Thomas Gerard

• 1. Sir Thomas Gerard+2 d. Sep 1601

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Legh of Lyme & Haydock, (Baines, 1836) < GoogleBooks >

Gerard, (Tilley, 1893)

References

• Baines, E. (1836). "Legh of Lyme & Haydock," in History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, III p. 644. < GoogleBooks >
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Legh-79 Cites
  • 1. Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2004). 444.
  • 2. W M Fergusson Irvine, ed., A Collection of Lancashire and Cheshire Wills Not Now to be Found in Any Probate Registry. 1301—1752, (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, XXX, 1896), 98-100, e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/publications11chesgoog/page/n118/mode/1up : accessed 28 July, 2022).
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p41837.htm#i418363 Cites
  • 1. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1535. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  • 2. [S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
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  • 1Ormerod, George, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (London: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, 1819.), 3:677, Family History Library, 942.71 H2or.
  • 2Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. [2nd Edition]), pp. 212, 236, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974 F228 1999.
  • 3Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004.), pp. 444, 491, Family History Library, 942 D5rd.
  • 4Betham, William, The Baronetage of England, or, The History of the English Baronets (Ipswich: Burrell and Bransby, 1801-1805.), 1:61, Family History Library, 942 D22bw.
  • 5Ormerod, G., History of the County Palatine of Chester, 3:677.
  • 6Ormerod, G., History of the County Palatine of Chester, 3:277.
• Tilley, J. (1893). "Pedigree of Gerard," in The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, 2, p. 83. < GoogleBooks >
• History of Parliament Online https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org › member GERARD, Sir Thomas (d.1601), of Bryn, Lancs. and Etwall, ... Family and Education. 1st s. of Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn by Jane, da. of Sir Peter Legh of Haydock, Lancs. and Lyme, Cheshire.