Matilda Legh

Sir Richard de Radclyffe, was the son and heir of Sir John, and was known as "le Puigné" in order to distinuish him from his cousing, Richard Radclyffe on the Tower. He married Matilda, daughter and heir of Sir John Legh of Botths and Sancbach. Matilda brought the manor of Sandback, a moiety of Mobberley, and other extensive possessions of the Arderne inheritance in the county of Cheshire. He added these lands to had acquired from his own family, which made him on of the greatest landowners in Lancashire and Cheshire.

• 'A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great ..., Volume 2 By John Burke
• http://books.google.com/books?id=vuVsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=J...
  • Pg. 1091
  • SIR JOHN RADCLYFFE, Knt. of Ordshall, Lancashire, represented that co. in parliament, 14 Edward III., and served under the same monarch in his French wars, participating in the sieges of Caen, Cressie, and Calais. He m. Joan, sister of Sir Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, and relict of Sir Hugh Dutton, Knt. of Dutton, in Cheshire, and by her, who m. 3rdly, Sir Edmund Talbot, Knt. of Bashall, had issue,
  • Sir John d. in 1357, and was s. by his only surviving son,
    • ' RICHARD RADCLYFFE, of Ordshall, called le Puigne, steward of Blackburnshire, from the 28 to 49 Edward III. He m. Matilda, dau. and sole heir of John Legh of Booths, in Cheshire, by Maud, his wife, dau. and heir of Sir John Arderne, Knt. of Moberleigh, and had a son, JOHN, (Sir,) his heir; and a dau., Joan, wife of James Bosville, Esq. of Chevet, in Yorkshire. He was drowned in Rosedale, in the 4th Richard II., and was s. by his son,
      • SIR JOHN RADCLYFFE, Knt. of Ordshall, aged 24 years at the death of his father. He m. Margaret, dau. of Sir Henry Trafford, Knt. of Trafford, and by her, who m. 2ndly, Robert Orrell, of Turton, in Lancashire, had issue, four sons and two daus. Sir John d. in 1421, and was s. by his son,
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• 'The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 (1882)
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• Sr John Legh of Bouthes and Isabell daughter and heir to Sr Piers Sandbach had issue John Legh, James Legh, William & Jhn, &c. Then John sonne & heire of Sr John and Dame Isabell married Maud daughter and heir to Sr John Arderne and had by her 'Maud daughter and heir married to Richard Radcliff of Wordsall &c.'
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• 'A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great ..., Volume 4
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great ..., Volume 4
• Pg. 400
• __________________________ THESE SOURCES HAVE A GENERATION ADDED BETWEEN JOHN & MATILDA (ARDERNE) LEGH AND MAUD (LEGH) & RICHARD RADCLIFFE WHICH PUT MATILDA AS THE DAU. OF JOHN & ISABEL OR ELIZABETH SONBACH.
• 'Remains, historical and literary, connected with the palatine ..., Volume 97 By Chetham Society
• Remains, historical and literary, connected with the palatine ..., Volume 97 By Chetham Society
• CHART
• Pg. 116
• John de Venables, called Legh, and purchaser of Norbury Booths, 28 Edward I. m. Ellen de Corona, or Baggiley, great-aunt of Thomas, the last of the Corona's. Ob. 1350
• children
  • Pg. 117
  • 4. Sir Jno. de Legh of Boothes. m.1st Maud, daughter of Sir Jno. Arden of Alford. (First wife.) m.2nd Isabel, daughter of ___ Ob. 43 Edward III.
  • child of Sir Jno. de Legh & Maud Arden
    • John Legh of Booths. m. Eliz., daughter and heiress of Richard de Sonbach.
    • child of John Legh & Eliz. Sonbach
      • 'Maud Legh. m. Richard Radcliffe of Ordsall.
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• 'Richard RADCLIFFE
• 'Born: ABT 1301 / 1324, probably Ordsall, Lancashire, England
• 'Died: ABT 19 Jul 1380, Rossendale Water
• 'Notes: known as 'Le Puigne' to distinguish him from his cousin Richard of the Tower. In addition to the Ordsall estates he succeeded to his father's offices of Bailiwick of Rochdale and the Stewardship of Blackburn. By his marriage he vastly enhanced his noble status and landed possessions. His wife was Matilda, daughter and heir of Sir John Legh of Booths and Sandbach. She was descended in the paternal line from Hamon de Legh, Lord of the Mediety of High Legh in the reign of Henry II, whose descendants had absorbed by marriage the notable families of Swineshead, Oughtrington, Corona, and Sandbach. By her grandmother, Margaret de Arderne, she was descended from Ralph, Viscount of Bayeux, from the family of Averanches Earls of Chester, and from the noble lines of St. Hillery, Montalt, Orreby, Glanville, and Sackville. Matilda brought to her husband the manor of Sandbach, a moiety of Mobberley, and other extensive possessions of the Arderne inheritance in the county of Chester. Richard was one of the greatest landowners in the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, for in addition to the wide domains that his wife brought him, he had acquired other portions of the former lands of his own family. Besides Ordsall, he held the manor of Hope within Pendleton, a messuage and 60 acres of land, held by knight's service and a rent of four pounds and two shillings, and Shoresworth, which with Hope had come to the Radcliffes from Margaret de Shoresworth. On his father's death, Richard petitioned for the restitution of lands in Livesey and Tockholes in Blackburnshire, which had been granted to Roger de Radcliffe by Thomas of Lancaster, and had been seized by the Crown on account of the debts which Robert, son of Roger, had left unpaid at his death. His second wife was Sybil, dau. and heiress of Sir Robert de Clitheroe of Salesbury.
• ' Richard was drowned in Rossendale Water, while exercising his official duties, on the Thursday before the feast of St. Margaret in 1380. After Richard's death Sybil was married again to Sir Richard de Mauleverer, to whom she bore a daughter, Isabella, who was married to John Talbot, and whose descendents had Salesbury for their inheritance. Sybil's third husband was Sir Roger de Fulthorpe, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland. In 1388 Sir Roger was convicted at Westminster of 'divers betrayals of trust' and his lands were made forfeit to the King. These properties on the death of Sybil reverted to the Lord of Ordsall. Sybil was living in 1406, when the Bishop of Lichfield granted her a licence as Lady of Salesbury for Mass to be celebrated 'submissa voce' within her manor of Salesbury.
• Father: John RADCLIFFE of Ordsall (Sir)
• Mother: Joan HOLLAND
• 'Married 1: Maud (Matilda) LEIGH (dau. of John Legh and Elizabeth Sandbach)
• Children:
  • 1. John RADCLIFFE of Ordsall (Sir)
  • 2. Joan RADCLIFFE
• Married 2: Sybil CLITHEROE (dau. of Robert De Clitheroe) (m.2 Richard Mauleverer - m.3 Sir Roger De Fulthorpe)
• Children:
  • 3. Joan RADCLIFFE
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/RADCLIFFE3.htm#Richard RADCLIFFE2
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• 'Matilda de Legh1
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• Father John de Legh b. b 1324, d. a 1377
• Mother Elizabeth de Sandback
• ' Matilda de Legh married Sir Richard Radcliffe, son of Sir John Radclyffe and Joan de Holland. Matilda de Legh was born at of Booths, Cheshire, England.
• 'Family Sir Richard Radcliffe d. 19 Jul 1380
• Children
  • ◦Joan Radclyffe+
  • ◦Sir John de Radcliffe+ b. 1356, d. 8 Aug 1422
• Citations
• 1.[S10325] Unknown author, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, by George Ormerod, 1819, p. 383; The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, by Weis, 4th Ed., p. 143.
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