Rei de la Lea

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Rei de la Lea (Lega)

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Birthplace: Lea Hall, Shropshire, , England
Death: 1203 (40-41)
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, , England
Immediate Family:

Wife of Reginald de Laga
Mother of Sir John de la Lee

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About Rei de la Lea

  • 'The ancestry and posterity of John Lea, of Christian Malford (1906)
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  • http://www.archive.org/stream/ancestryposterit00leaj#page/10/mode/1up
    • 10. LEE OF LANGLEY AND COTON, SALOP.
    • Arms: Gu. a fess chequy or and az. between ten billets arg. , four in chief and three, two, and one in base.t
  • Lee of Lea, Aldon, Alderton, Hadnall, Stanton, Roden, Pimhill, Barrington, etc., from about 1150 to 1380, and afterward at Langley, Lea Hall, Acton Burnell, Nordley Regis, and Coton Hall, all in Shropshire. Also of Ankerwycke and Wraysbury, Bucks. Also of Cholderton, Wilts, and Buriton, Hants.
  • ' This family derive from Reyner de Lee in the latter part of the 12th century. He was sheriff of Salop 1201, and probably dead before 1210. That he was not, as has been alleged in some pedigrees, the son of Hugh de Lee (who survived him forty years) has already been noted as proved, ++ From Reyner de Lee descend a long line of worthy gentlemen of the two houses of Langley and Coton'; of the former Sir Humphrey Lee was made a Baronet in 1620, but his son Sir Richard Lee dying without male issue in 1660, this line became extinct. The house of Coton is still represented by Wm. Blackstone Lee, Esq., of Seend, Wilts, to whose masterly resume of the historv of his family in Lee of Virginia§ the reader may
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/ancestryposterit00leaj#page/11/mode/1up
  • refer, as also for the very probable claim of the Virginian family to a descent from this stock.*
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  • "The Lee Family of Stanton, Roden and afterwards of Langley and Coton Hall, Salop, IS stated in Burke’s Baronetcies to be ONE of the oldest in England.
  • "Eyton treating of Reyner le la Le about 1195 gives also an unbroken descent thro’ the Stantons of Stanton Hineheath from 1086 to 1173-4. The pedigree of 1623 (when Sir Humphrey Lee’s charters were copied by Vincent) begins with HUGO DE LEGA, 1100, whose son,
    • ' "Reginald de la Lee is identified with the above. He was Sheriff 1201 and one of the knights as REINER DE LEGA AT THE assizes Oct. 1203. He received a grant of land from William, son of William FitzAlan and according to the pedigree had a son;
      • "Sir John de la Le, evidence produced by Eyton and Sir William Hardy, late Keeper of the Records in the Duchy of Lancaster, shows that 'Reyner’s son was really Sir Thomas de Lee, given as his grandson in the pedigree'. He married Petronilla, daughter of Sir Thomas Corbet (Sheriff) in time of King Henry 3rd of England—king from 1266-1272. Sir Thomas de la Le had THREE sons:
        • Sir John de la Lee—mentioned above—
        • Reyner or Reginald de la Lee—to whom he gave the V. of Lee Pevenhull 7c,and
        • Thomas de la Lee, this latter m. Petronilla de Stanton about 14(?) and had a SON:
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Rei de la Lea's Timeline

1162
1162
Lea Hall, Shropshire, , England
1203
1203
Age 41
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, , England
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Harmer Hill, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom