Ralph St. Leger

Knighted 1377. An Administrator of Kent he served as Lieutenent inherited the family fiefs in 1357. In 1368 he appears in the list of Knights sent to Gascony by Edward III after the treaty between France and England. This campaign went badly for the English King who lost all his lands in Guyenne Poiteau Rouergue and Perigord. This was the time of Charles V. In 1384 he was Member of Parliament for Essex. 1379 He was Member of Parliament for Kent and some time later took part in another campaign in Gascony. Became Chancellor of the 2nd Parliament of Richard II.

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• 'Sir Ralph St. Leger1,2
• 'M, #22732, d. after 1387
• Father Arnold St. Leger d. a 1378
• ' Sir Ralph St. Leger was born at of Ulcomb, Kent, England. He Knight of the Shire of Kent. in 1377.3 He died after 1387.
• Family
• Children
  • Miss) St. Leger+
  • John St. Leger, Esq., Sheriff of Kent+2 d. 16 May 1442
  • Thomas St. Leger+3 b. c 1365
• Citations
• 1.[S7115] Unknown author, Early Digges Family Progenitors, p. 12.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 424.
• 3.[S11576] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, by John Burke, Esq. and John Bernard Burke, Esq., p. 28.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p757.htm#i...
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• Otterden
• This manor afterwards came into the possession of a family which took their name from it. Ralph de Ottringden held it of William de Leyborne, as one knight's see, in the reign of Henry III. His grandson Sir Laurence de Ottringden, died possessed of it in the beginning of king Edward II.'s reign, leaving an only daughter and heir, who carried this manor in marriage to Peyforer, from which name it passed into that of Potyn; one of which, Nicholas Potyn, was possessed of it in the reign of Richard II. and left an only daughter Juliana, who carried it in marriage to Thomas St. Leger, (fn. 1) 'second son of Ralph St. Leger, of Ulcomb, knight of the shire anno 51 Edward III.' He afterwards resided at Otterden, where he kept his shrievalty anno 20 Richard II. and dying in the 10th year of Henry IV. was buried under a tomb erected for him in this church, near the high altar. His arms being, Fretty, on a chief, two mullets, impaling semee of sleurs de lis, were on his tomb; which last are said in the Aucher pedigree, to be those of Juliana Potyn his wife; but it must be here remarked, the similarity of this coat to that of Peysorer, which was, Six sleurs delis, whose daughter and heir Philipott says she was.
• From: 'Parishes: Otterden', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798), pp. 533-549. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62930 Date accessed: 22 April 2013.
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• 'Ralph St. LEGER (Sir)
• 'Notes: Knighted 1377. An Administrator of Kent he served as Lieutenent inherited the family fiefs in 1357. In 1368 he appears in the list of Knights sent to Gascony by Edward III after the treaty between France and England. This campaign went badly for the English King who lost all his lands in Guyenne Poiteau Rouergue and Perigord. This was the time of Charles V. In 1384 he was Member of Parliament for Essex. 1379 He was Member of Parliament for Kent and some time later took part in another campaign in Gascony. Became Chancellor of the 2nd Parliament of Richard II.
• Father: Ralph St. LEGER (Sir)
• Mother: Joan SAVAGE
• 'Married: Beatrice De HAIGHTON (eldest dau. and co-heir of Nicholas Haighton of Essex and Shropshire)
• Children:
  • 1. Nicholas St. LEGER (b. ABT 1370 - d. ABT 1404 dsp)
  • 2. Thomas St. LEGER (Sir)
  • 3. Alice St. LEGER
  • 4. Phillip St. LEGER
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STLEGER.htm#Ralph St. LEGER (Sir)2
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• Thomas St. LEGER (Sir)
• Born: ABT 1377, Ulcombe, Kent, England
• Died: 1408
• Buried: High Altar, Otterden, Kent, England
• Notes: 1396 Sheriff of Kent. Some sources states tha his parents were Sir Ralph St. Leger and Beatrice De Haighton.
• Father: Thomas St. LEGER / 'Ralph St. LEGER (Sir)'
• Mother: Lora PEYROFER / 'Beatrice De HAIGHTON'
• Married: Juliana POTYN (dau. of Nicholas Potyn)
• Children:
  • 1. Joan (Mary) St. LEGER
  • 2. Eleanor St. LEGER
  • 3. Juliana St. LEGER
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STLEGER.htm#Thomas St. LEGER (Sir)1
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