John Corbet, of Binweston & Leighton

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Sept. 20 Westminster 1356
Licence, for 10 marks paid to the king by John Corbet, ‘ chivaler,’ for him to grant to his son John, and Joan, wife of the latter, in tail, the manor of Bynweston, held in chief, with reversion to the said John and his heirs.

Source: Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Edward III, 1327-1377, page 436

From http://powys.org/pl_tree/ps19/ps19_258.html

Notes for Sir Piers Corbet Lord Corbet m. (1) Joan de Mortimer, (2) Alice le Wafre

His and Alice son John was the last baron of Cause, and who was b. 25 Mar 1148 and d. bef 1347. Johns heirs were his aunts Alice m. Robert de Stafford and Emma m. Sir Bryan de Brampton - see CP.

A Writ of August 10,1300, announces the death of Peter Corbet himself. An Inquest, held at Caus on August 28th, found the following facts as to the Manors of Binweston and Yokethull, viz. that Thomas, eldest son of the deceased, had married Johanna, daughter of Alan Plukenet, and died without issue; whereupon, that is, on November 11, 1295, Peter Corbet had, without license from the King, given Binweston to his son's widow in dower. ...
Peter, the second son of Peter Corbet (I.), was, as we have seen, born in or before 1270, and was probably another son of Joan. But John the third son of Peter Corbet (I.), may well have been his son by a second wife, for he was not born till March 25, 1298, as we shall see in the sequel. ...
John Corbet, the last Baron of Caus (if such a title can be assigned to one who never enjoyed his paternal estates and was never summoned to Parliament), died while yet his sister-in-law was seized of his Barony. His legitimacy has been questioned,11 without, as I believe, the slightest foundation. He was living after the accession of Edward III. (1327), and was still prosecuting a claim on the Valletort estates, of which he was the coheir in right of his Grandmother, the wife of Thomas Corbet. Those estates, which Peter Corbet (II.) had already claimed, were never recovered. They had been settled by the last Baron Valletort in a way which was intended to exclude his collateral heirs, Corbet and Pomeray, that is, on Richard, King of Almagne and Earl of Cornwall, and the heirs of his body. It is true that the heirs of the Royal Earl failed in 1300, and that the next remainder was to the right heirs of Roger, last Baron Valletort; but the King had interest in the matter, as being heir to the general estates of the Earls of Cornwall, and the exertions of Corbet and Pomeray availed nothing against the Crown. Thus was John Corbet, the last rightful Baron of Caus, reduced to a position of comparative beggary, by the legal artifices of his own kindred on the one hand, and by barefaced injustice on the other.12 He died without issue before 1347. ....
... There was also a John Corbet, who by grant of Peter Corbet (II.) and his wife, Beatrix, had a grant of Binweston for the life of Beatrix. I greatly doubt whether this John of Binweston was identical with John, son of Peter (I.). Unfortunately it does not appear what was the status of Binweston on Beatrix Corbet's death in 1347 (Iaqnis. 21 Edw. III., No. 55); but there was a Sir John Corbet of Binweston living in 1356, and then proposing to settle that Manor (which was his only estate) on his son John, and on Joan, his son's wife, and their issue. (InquU. 30 Edw. III., 2nd Nos., No. 15.) ...

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From page 356 of The Montgomeryshire Collections, Volume 27

The direct ancestor of our sheriff was Sir Grifiuith Vaughan™s eldest son, David Lloyd, who held the manor and lands of Leighton, near Welshpool, as early as 1469,under his kinsman, Sir William Brereton of Brereton, Cheshire. The manor of Leighton came to this Sir William through the marriage of his father, William Brereton, with Alice, daughter and eventual heiress of John Corbet of Leighton. This \Villiam Brereton died in the service of Henry V at Harfleur, predeceasing his father Sir William. The latter also served in the French wars of the same King, and, three years after the death of his son, witnesses a deed of Sir John Bromley's at the Castle of Dompfront. Sir William's I nquz'sitz'o post mortcm is dated the 4th Henry VI, 1425-6.2
Alice Corbet, the heiress of the conjoint manors of Leighton and Binweston, by I nquisitio post mortem 0f the 10th of Henry IV, 1409,1 was found to be sister and heir of her deceased brother, Richard Corbet of Leighton. The Salop Heraldic Visitations2 make them fourth in descent from John Corbet of Leighton, the last rightful Baron of Caus, reduced to a position of comparative beggary by the legal artifices of his own kindred on the one hand, and by barefaced injustice on the other."

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Population Gazetteer of England and Wales and the Islands in the British Seas Showing the Number of Inhabitants of Every Parish and Place According to the Census of 1861

There are two entries related to Leighton Montgomery, Cheshire

parish Leighton
county Montgomery
A google search for Montgomery County, England gives results for Montgomeryshire, Wales.

parish Leighton
county Cheshire

birthplace was either
Leighton, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Leighton, Cheshire, England