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Thomas Legge

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Birthplace: England, United Kingdom
Death: Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Son of Simon Legge and Joan Clavering
Husband of Margaret Blount
Father of William Legge; Richard Legge and John Legge

Managed by: Alan Miller
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About Thomas Legge

  • Thomas Legge, according to The Peerage, was the son of Simon Legge and Joan Clavering. His wife is said to be Margaret Blount, daughter of Sir John Blount of Kinlet, but she is not one of his known children. She could be a daughter of one of his brothers.

Ancient Funeral Monuments of Great Britain, Ireland and The Islands by John Weever & William Tooke 1767 p. 121-123 "Hic iacet Johannes Clavering quondam filius Roger Clavering, ciuis and pannarji de ciuitate London Orate pro animabus predicti Johannis Clavering, Juliane and Alicie ux. eius & predicti Rogeri Clavering and Johanne ux. eius, patris and matris predicti Johannis Clavering, fratrum and Fororum fuorum, et filiorum, eorum, ac etiam Anne Westbye et Matildis matris eius, et progenitorum nostrorum, et Johannis De Brendward, Thome Legge, et Simon filii eius, at pro animabus omnia benefactorum nostrorum, et omnium fidelium defunctorum, quorum animabus propitietur Deus. Amen.

Here lies John Clavering former son Roger Clavering, a citizen of the city of London and pannarji Pray for the souls of John Clavering, Julian and Alice his wives & Roger Clavering and Johanna his wife, the father and the mother of the aforesaid John of Clavering, unto the brethren, and the markets called fuorum, and children, of them, and they, too, Anne Westby and Maud, the mother's name was, and those of our ancestors, and Joan of Brendward, Thomas Legge, and Simon, the son of his died, though for the souls of all his benefits, our fathers, and of all the faithful departed, O God, by whose atonement for your souls. Amen.

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Thomas Legge's Timeline

1470
1470
England, United Kingdom
1540
October 14, 1540
England, United Kingdom
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Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom