Margaret Leycester

Margaret Grosvenour, 6th daughter of Joane Fitton and Robert Grosvenour of Hulme, m 1464 to Thomas Leycester.

Family

The English Baronetage Containing a Genealogical and Historical ..., Volume 3. “Leicester, of Tabley.” Page 139. GoogleBooks

8. Thomas Leycester, of Nether-Tabley, Esq; son and heir of. John, had four wives ; 1. Margaret, fixth daughter and coheir of Robert Grosvenor, of Houlme, nigh Nether-Pever, Efq; whom he married, 1464, 4. Edw. IV. and had issue by ber,

• John Leycester, son and heir.

By this Margaret, Thomas Leycester, had the moiety of Nether-Pever, cum Little Pever, the third part of Over-Álderley, the third part of Pygreve wood, in the demain lands of Allostock, in the county of Chester, and certain lands in Hope, juxta Astonfeild, in the county of Stafford, by partition, dated 5 Edw. IV. 1465, and Margery Grosvenor, fourth daughter and coheir, dying without issue, 1474." John Leycester, (son and heir of Thomas, and Margaret,) had in right of his mother, as sister and coheir to Margery, a fifth part of Alloftock, by partition, dated 14 Edw. IV. 1474; for Margery, had all Allostock to her share ; but Margaret, the mother of John Leycester, was now dead, at the time of this later partition. She was living 9 Ed. IV. but she was dead 14 Ed. IV.

References

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Margaret_Grosvenor_%282%29
• Ormerod, George; William Smith; William Webb; and Peter Leycester. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, 1819 (London : Nichols, Son, and Bentley)) Vol. 3, p. 88. Archive.Org
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