ST. LEGER (SELLENGER), Sir John (by 1516-93/96), of Annery in Monkleigh, Devon.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Biography Detail
Constituency
Family & Education
Offices Held
Biography
End Notes
Related Resources
1558-1603 Members
1558-1603 Constituencies
1558-1603 Parliaments
1558-1603 Surveys
PREVIOUS
BIOGRAPHY
NEXT
BIOGRAPHY
ConstituencyDates
DARTMOUTH
1555
DEVON
1559
ARUNDEL
1563
DEVON
1571
DEVON
1572
TREGONY
1584
Family and Education
b. by 1516, 1st s. of Sir George St. Leger of Annery by Anne, da. of Edmund Knyvet. m. by June 1535, Catherine, da. of George Neville, 5th Lord Bergavenny, at least 2s. 4da. suc. fa. bet. 1544 and 1547.
Offices Held
Commr. relief, Devon 1550, musters 1569; j.p. from 1554, q. from c.1559, sheriff 1560-1; dep. lt. Cornw. and Devon 1558, Devon 1569.1
Biography
St. Leger inherited considerable west-country estates, and remained an active local official from the reign of Henry VIII to almost the end of Elizabeth’s reign. He conformed to the state church, whether Catholic or protestant, but that his sympathies were with the reformers is suggested by the end Earl of Bedford’s appointing him a deputy lieutenant and by Elizabeth’s making him a visitor for the diocese of Exeter and giving him a rectory and advowson. St. Leger thrice sat as knight of the shire, and came in for Arundel (through his relative the 12th Earl of Arundel) and Tregony (through the Pomeroy family or the 2nd Earl of Bedford). His parliamentary career is of no special interest. He was on the succession committee (31 Oct. 1566), and was one of 30 Commons MPs summoned on 5 Nov. to hear the Queen’s message on the succession. He claimed privilege for a servant 9 Apr. 1571, at a time when he was himself up to his ears in debt, and served on committees concerned with navigation (8 May 1571), Devon harbours (11 May), tanners (11 May), and cloth (8 Feb. 1581).
On to Mar. 1581 the Lords sent down a bill for the restitution in blood of St. Leger’s two sons John and Dudley (probably Dudley was illegitimate) who had disgraced themselves by ‘certain lewd practices’ including robbery on Hounslow Heath, and had been in the Fleet after a brawl with the sons of Sir John Perrot. John St. Leger became a soldier, and wrote to Walsingham from the Netherlands asking him to persuade his father not to ‘bury himself in so dark a tomb that he leave no light, sign, or mark of his name, house, wife, family and children’. In 1589, when he was commanding troops in Ireland, the Privy Council granted him permission to visit Annery, where his father was ill, and there is a reference to another projected visit in the following year. In 1592 the old man was too infirm to take the oath of allegiance at the Devon sessions, but he was well enough to meet other justices at Barnstaple about the rating for the 1593 subsidy.
By this time many estates had been sold and St. Leger had been involved in lawsuit after lawsuit over his debts, on which he was paying 20% interest. On one occasion Richard Grenville II brought a case in the stannary courts against one Hilling for saying publicly to one of St. Leger’s servants: ‘Thy master is an old drunken bankrupt knave, a rogue and a rascally villain—and so go tell him’. The picture is one of general disintegration. Nothing is known of the last years of St. Leger’s life, and no inquisition post mortem survives. He died intestate before 7 Nov. 1596, when letters of administration were granted to his daughter Eulalia Arscott alias St. Leger—formerly wife of Edmund Tremayne. She renounced the administration in the following year, no doubt because of the insolvency of the estate. John St. Leger wrote to Salisbury in 1605 ‘if his father had left him that living which his ancestors left him, the world would have more respected him’. He asked that those who had bought Sir John’s lands ‘at so low a rate’ should give him compensation, and this not materializing, the St. Legers disappeared as a landed Devon family.2
Ref Volumes: 1558-1603
Author: N. M. Fuidge
Source: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/st-leger-%28sellenger%29-sir-john-1516-9396
John St. Leger (died 1596)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arms of St Leger of Annery, Devon: Azure fretty argent, a chief or
Sir John St. Leger (died 1596), of Annery in the parish of Monkleigh, Devon, was an English politician. Sheriff of Devon in 1560, he was Member of Parliament for Dartmouth, Devon, in 1555-1558, Devon in 1559–1563, Arundel, Sussex, in 1563-1571, Devon again in 1571-1583 and Tregony, Cornwall in 1584-1585. He was knighted in 1544.
Origins
He was the son of Sir George St. Leger (c.1475-1536), of Annery, by his wife, Anne Knyvett, daughter of Edmund Knyvett. His paternal grandparents were Sir James St. Leger, of Shipton, and Lady Anne Butler, heiress of Annery, daughter of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde[citation needed] and great-aunt of Queen Anne Boleyn. One of his great-uncles was Sir Thomas St Leger (c.1440-1483), the husband of Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter (1439-1476), sister of Kings Edward IV and Richard III. His great-grandfather was Sir John St Leger (c.1404-1442) lord of the manor of Ulcombe in Kent, whose three sons Randolf (or Ralph), Thomas and James, all made advantageous marriages. The manor of Ulcombe had been held by the family from the See of Canterbury from shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066, during which a St Leger knight is supposed by tradition to have supported William the Conqueror with his hand on disembarking from his ship at Pevensey. The name was Latinised to de Sancto Leodegario.
Marriage & progeny
He married Catherine Neville, daughter of George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny and according to Virgoe (1982) left two sons (only one according to Chope (1917) and four daughters:
Sons
John St Leger, eldest son, a soldier in Ireland, died unmarried and in poverty
Dudley St Leger, possibly illegitimate
Daughters
16th century mural monument of Richard Bellew of Ash and his wife Margaret St Leger of Annery in Braunton Church, Devon
Mary St Leger, the eldest, who married Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591) of Stowe, Kilkhampton, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon, the famous captain of Revenge.
Frances St Leger, who married John Stucley (1551-1611), of Affeton, Devon and was the mother of Sir Lewis Stucley
Margaret St Leger, who married Richard Bellew of Ash, Braunton and Alverdiscott, Devon. A heraldic mural monument to Richard Bellew and his wife Margaret St Leger survives in Braunton parish Church.
Eulalia St Leger, who married firstly Edmund Tremayne of Collacombe, Devon, and secondly Tristram Arscott (1544-1621) of Tetcott, Devon, the latter who bought Annery from his father-in-law John St Leger.
Landholdings
Under a royal grant dated 10 June 1543 "John St Leger, King's servant" acquired the following former monastic lands following the Dissolution of the Monasteries:
Canonsleigh Priory in the parish of Burlescombe, site and demesne of.
Priory manor of Hockworthy.
Torre Abbey, site and demesne of, subject to a 21-year lease granted at Dissolution to Hugh I Pollard of King's Nympton. St Leger sold it in 1543 to Hugh Pollard.
Manor of Cullompton, formerly held by Buckland Abbey.
Manor of Upton Weaver (or Higher Upton) in the parish of Cullompton, formerly held by St Nicholas's Priory, Exeter.
Other non-monastic property in Devon
Small landholding in Cornwall.
The lands were exchanged with the king for other lands of St Leger, with an excess balance paid by him of £116 9s 9d.
Death
Despite accumulating much land, he became encumbered with debts and parted with many of his estates. He died "a poor man" and on the death of his son John without progeny the St Leger family of Annery was extinguished. However, another line descended from Randolf St Leger (d.1470), Sheriff of Kent and one of his great uncles, father of Sir Anthony St Leger (d.1559), KG, Lord Deputy of Ireland, whose descendants were created Viscount Doneraile, later inherited the manor of Eggesford in Devon.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_St._Leger_(died_1596)
Children:
1. Frances St. LEGER
2. John St. LEGER
3. Charles St. LEGER
4. Daniel St. LEGER
5. Elizabeth St. LEGER
6. Ulalia St. LEGER
7. Margaret St. LEGER
8. Catherine St. LEGER (b. 1572 - d. 1620)
9. Jane St. LEGER
10. Mary St. LEGER
11. Dudley St. LEGER (b. 1578 - d. 1627)
Married 2: Martha SCUDAMORE
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Biography Detail
Constituency
Family & Education
Offices Held
Biography
End Notes
Related Resources
1558-1603 Members
1558-1603 Constituencies
1558-1603 Parliaments
1558-1603 Surveys
PREVIOUS
BIOGRAPHY
NEXT
BIOGRAPHY
ConstituencyDates
DARTMOUTH
1555
DEVON
1559
ARUNDEL
1563
DEVON
1571
DEVON
1572
TREGONY
1584
Family and Education
b. by 1516, 1st s. of Sir George St. Leger of Annery by Anne, da. of Edmund Knyvet. m. by June 1535, Catherine, da. of George Neville, 5th Lord Bergavenny, at least 2s. 4da. suc. fa. bet. 1544 and 1547.
Offices Held
Commr. relief, Devon 1550, musters 1569; j.p. from 1554, q. from c.1559, sheriff 1560-1; dep. lt. Cornw. and Devon 1558, Devon 1569.1
Biography
St. Leger inherited considerable west-country estates, and remained an active local official from the reign of Henry VIII to almost the end of Elizabeth’s reign. He conformed to the state church, whether Catholic or protestant, but that his sympathies were with the reformers is suggested by the end Earl of Bedford’s appointing him a deputy lieutenant and by Elizabeth’s making him a visitor for the diocese of Exeter and giving him a rectory and advowson. St. Leger thrice sat as knight of the shire, and came in for Arundel (through his relative the 12th Earl of Arundel) and Tregony (through the Pomeroy family or the 2nd Earl of Bedford). His parliamentary career is of no special interest. He was on the succession committee (31 Oct. 1566), and was one of 30 Commons MPs summoned on 5 Nov. to hear the Queen’s message on the succession. He claimed privilege for a servant 9 Apr. 1571, at a time when he was himself up to his ears in debt, and served on committees concerned with navigation (8 May 1571), Devon harbours (11 May), tanners (11 May), and cloth (8 Feb. 1581).
On to Mar. 1581 the Lords sent down a bill for the restitution in blood of St. Leger’s two sons John and Dudley (probably Dudley was illegitimate) who had disgraced themselves by ‘certain lewd practices’ including robbery on Hounslow Heath, and had been in the Fleet after a brawl with the sons of Sir John Perrot. John St. Leger became a soldier, and wrote to Walsingham from the Netherlands asking him to persuade his father not to ‘bury himself in so dark a tomb that he leave no light, sign, or mark of his name, house, wife, family and children’. In 1589, when he was commanding troops in Ireland, the Privy Council granted him permission to visit Annery, where his father was ill, and there is a reference to another projected visit in the following year. In 1592 the old man was too infirm to take the oath of allegiance at the Devon sessions, but he was well enough to meet other justices at Barnstaple about the rating for the 1593 subsidy.
By this time many estates had been sold and St. Leger had been involved in lawsuit after lawsuit over his debts, on which he was paying 20% interest. On one occasion Richard Grenville II brought a case in the stannary courts against one Hilling for saying publicly to one of St. Leger’s servants: ‘Thy master is an old drunken bankrupt knave, a rogue and a rascally villain—and so go tell him’. The picture is one of general disintegration. Nothing is known of the last years of St. Leger’s life, and no inquisition post mortem survives. He died intestate before 7 Nov. 1596, when letters of administration were granted to his daughter Eulalia Arscott alias St. Leger—formerly wife of Edmund Tremayne. She renounced the administration in the following year, no doubt because of the insolvency of the estate. John St. Leger wrote to Salisbury in 1605 ‘if his father had left him that living which his ancestors left him, the world would have more respected him’. He asked that those who had bought Sir John’s lands ‘at so low a rate’ should give him compensation, and this not materializing, the St. Legers disappeared as a landed Devon family.2
Ref Volumes: 1558-1603
Author: N. M. Fuidge
Source: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/st-leger-%28sellenger%29-sir-john-1516-9396
John St. Leger (died 1596)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arms of St Leger of Annery, Devon: Azure fretty argent, a chief or
Sir John St. Leger (died 1596), of Annery in the parish of Monkleigh, Devon, was an English politician. Sheriff of Devon in 1560, he was Member of Parliament for Dartmouth, Devon, in 1555-1558, Devon in 1559–1563, Arundel, Sussex, in 1563-1571, Devon again in 1571-1583 and Tregony, Cornwall in 1584-1585. He was knighted in 1544.
Origins
He was the son of Sir George St. Leger (c.1475-1536), of Annery, by his wife, Anne Knyvett, daughter of Edmund Knyvett. His paternal grandparents were Sir James St. Leger, of Shipton, and Lady Anne Butler, heiress of Annery, daughter of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde[citation needed] and great-aunt of Queen Anne Boleyn. One of his great-uncles was Sir Thomas St Leger (c.1440-1483), the husband of Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter (1439-1476), sister of Kings Edward IV and Richard III. His great-grandfather was Sir John St Leger (c.1404-1442) lord of the manor of Ulcombe in Kent, whose three sons Randolf (or Ralph), Thomas and James, all made advantageous marriages. The manor of Ulcombe had been held by the family from the See of Canterbury from shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066, during which a St Leger knight is supposed by tradition to have supported William the Conqueror with his hand on disembarking from his ship at Pevensey. The name was Latinised to de Sancto Leodegario.
Marriage & progeny
He married Catherine Neville, daughter of George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny and according to Virgoe (1982) left two sons (only one according to Chope (1917) and four daughters:
Sons
John St Leger, eldest son, a soldier in Ireland, died unmarried and in poverty
Dudley St Leger, possibly illegitimate
Daughters
16th century mural monument of Richard Bellew of Ash and his wife Margaret St Leger of Annery in Braunton Church, Devon
Mary St Leger, the eldest, who married Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591) of Stowe, Kilkhampton, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon, the famous captain of Revenge.
Frances St Leger, who married John Stucley (1551-1611), of Affeton, Devon and was the mother of Sir Lewis Stucley
Margaret St Leger, who married Richard Bellew of Ash, Braunton and Alverdiscott, Devon. A heraldic mural monument to Richard Bellew and his wife Margaret St Leger survives in Braunton parish Church.
Eulalia St Leger, who married firstly Edmund Tremayne of Collacombe, Devon, and secondly Tristram Arscott (1544-1621) of Tetcott, Devon, the latter who bought Annery from his father-in-law John St Leger.
Landholdings
Under a royal grant dated 10 June 1543 "John St Leger, King's servant" acquired the following former monastic lands following the Dissolution of the Monasteries:
Canonsleigh Priory in the parish of Burlescombe, site and demesne of.
Priory manor of Hockworthy.
Torre Abbey, site and demesne of, subject to a 21-year lease granted at Dissolution to Hugh I Pollard of King's Nympton. St Leger sold it in 1543 to Hugh Pollard.
Manor of Cullompton, formerly held by Buckland Abbey.
Manor of Upton Weaver (or Higher Upton) in the parish of Cullompton, formerly held by St Nicholas's Priory, Exeter.
Other non-monastic property in Devon
Small landholding in Cornwall.
The lands were exchanged with the king for other lands of St Leger, with an excess balance paid by him of £116 9s 9d.
Death
Despite accumulating much land, he became encumbered with debts and parted with many of his estates. He died "a poor man" and on the death of his son John without progeny the St Leger family of Annery was extinguished. However, another line descended from Randolf St Leger (d.1470), Sheriff of Kent and one of his great uncles, father of Sir Anthony St Leger (d.1559), KG, Lord Deputy of Ireland, whose descendants were created Viscount Doneraile, later inherited the manor of Eggesford in Devon.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_St._Leger_(died_1596)
Children:
1. Frances St. LEGER
2. John St. LEGER
3. Charles St. LEGER
4. Daniel St. LEGER
5. Elizabeth St. LEGER
6. Ulalia St. LEGER
7. Margaret St. LEGER
8. Catherine St. LEGER (b. 1572 - d. 1620)
9. Jane St. LEGER
10. Mary St. LEGER
11. Dudley St. LEGER (b. 1578 - d. 1627)
Married 2: Martha SCUDAMORE
ST. LEGER (SELLENGER), Sir John (by 1516-93/96), of Annery in Monkleigh, Devon.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Biography Detail
Constituency
Family & Education
Offices Held
Biography
End Notes
Related Resources
1558-1603 Members
1558-1603 Constituencies
1558-1603 Parliaments
1558-1603 Surveys
PREVIOUS
BIOGRAPHY
NEXT
BIOGRAPHY
ConstituencyDates
DARTMOUTH
1555
DEVON
1559
ARUNDEL
1563
DEVON
1571
DEVON
1572
TREGONY
1584
Family and Education
b. by 1516, 1st s. of Sir George St. Leger of Annery by Anne, da. of Edmund Knyvet. m. by June 1535, Catherine, da. of George Neville, 5th Lord Bergavenny, at least 2s. 4da. suc. fa. bet. 1544 and 1547.
Offices Held
Commr. relief, Devon 1550, musters 1569; j.p. from 1554, q. from c.1559, sheriff 1560-1; dep. lt. Cornw. and Devon 1558, Devon 1569.1
Biography
St. Leger inherited considerable west-country estates, and remained an active local official from the reign of Henry VIII to almost the end of Elizabeth’s reign. He conformed to the state church, whether Catholic or protestant, but that his sympathies were with the reformers is suggested by the end Earl of Bedford’s appointing him a deputy lieutenant and by Elizabeth’s making him a visitor for the diocese of Exeter and giving him a rectory and advowson. St. Leger thrice sat as knight of the shire, and came in for Arundel (through his relative the 12th Earl of Arundel) and Tregony (through the Pomeroy family or the 2nd Earl of Bedford). His parliamentary career is of no special interest. He was on the succession committee (31 Oct. 1566), and was one of 30 Commons MPs summoned on 5 Nov. to hear the Queen’s message on the succession. He claimed privilege for a servant 9 Apr. 1571, at a time when he was himself up to his ears in debt, and served on committees concerned with navigation (8 May 1571), Devon harbours (11 May), tanners (11 May), and cloth (8 Feb. 1581).
On to Mar. 1581 the Lords sent down a bill for the restitution in blood of St. Leger’s two sons John and Dudley (probably Dudley was illegitimate) who had disgraced themselves by ‘certain lewd practices’ including robbery on Hounslow Heath, and had been in the Fleet after a brawl with the sons of Sir John Perrot. John St. Leger became a soldier, and wrote to Walsingham from the Netherlands asking him to persuade his father not to ‘bury himself in so dark a tomb that he leave no light, sign, or mark of his name, house, wife, family and children’. In 1589, when he was commanding troops in Ireland, the Privy Council granted him permission to visit Annery, where his father was ill, and there is a reference to another projected visit in the following year. In 1592 the old man was too infirm to take the oath of allegiance at the Devon sessions, but he was well enough to meet other justices at Barnstaple about the rating for the 1593 subsidy.
By this time many estates had been sold and St. Leger had been involved in lawsuit after lawsuit over his debts, on which he was paying 20% interest. On one occasion Richard Grenville II brought a case in the stannary courts against one Hilling for saying publicly to one of St. Leger’s servants: ‘Thy master is an old drunken bankrupt knave, a rogue and a rascally villain—and so go tell him’. The picture is one of general disintegration. Nothing is known of the last years of St. Leger’s life, and no inquisition post mortem survives. He died intestate before 7 Nov. 1596, when letters of administration were granted to his daughter Eulalia Arscott alias St. Leger—formerly wife of Edmund Tremayne. She renounced the administration in the following year, no doubt because of the insolvency of the estate. John St. Leger wrote to Salisbury in 1605 ‘if his father had left him that living which his ancestors left him, the world would have more respected him’. He asked that those who had bought Sir John’s lands ‘at so low a rate’ should give him compensation, and this not materializing, the St. Legers disappeared as a landed Devon family.2
Ref Volumes: 1558-1603
Author: N. M. Fuidge
Source: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/st-leger-%28sellenger%29-sir-john-1516-9396
John St. Leger (died 1596)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arms of St Leger of Annery, Devon: Azure fretty argent, a chief or
Sir John St. Leger (died 1596), of Annery in the parish of Monkleigh, Devon, was an English politician. Sheriff of Devon in 1560, he was Member of Parliament for Dartmouth, Devon, in 1555-1558, Devon in 1559–1563, Arundel, Sussex, in 1563-1571, Devon again in 1571-1583 and Tregony, Cornwall in 1584-1585. He was knighted in 1544.
Origins
He was the son of Sir George St. Leger (c.1475-1536), of Annery, by his wife, Anne Knyvett, daughter of Edmund Knyvett. His paternal grandparents were Sir James St. Leger, of Shipton, and Lady Anne Butler, heiress of Annery, daughter of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde[citation needed] and great-aunt of Queen Anne Boleyn. One of his great-uncles was Sir Thomas St Leger (c.1440-1483), the husband of Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter (1439-1476), sister of Kings Edward IV and Richard III. His great-grandfather was Sir John St Leger (c.1404-1442) lord of the manor of Ulcombe in Kent, whose three sons Randolf (or Ralph), Thomas and James, all made advantageous marriages. The manor of Ulcombe had been held by the family from the See of Canterbury from shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066, during which a St Leger knight is supposed by tradition to have supported William the Conqueror with his hand on disembarking from his ship at Pevensey. The name was Latinised to de Sancto Leodegario.
Marriage & progeny
He married Catherine Neville, daughter of George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny and according to Virgoe (1982) left two sons (only one according to Chope (1917) and four daughters:
Sons
John St Leger, eldest son, a soldier in Ireland, died unmarried and in poverty
Dudley St Leger, possibly illegitimate
Daughters
16th century mural monument of Richard Bellew of Ash and his wife Margaret St Leger of Annery in Braunton Church, Devon
Mary St Leger, the eldest, who married Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591) of Stowe, Kilkhampton, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon, the famous captain of Revenge.
Frances St Leger, who married John Stucley (1551-1611), of Affeton, Devon and was the mother of Sir Lewis Stucley
Margaret St Leger, who married Richard Bellew of Ash, Braunton and Alverdiscott, Devon. A heraldic mural monument to Richard Bellew and his wife Margaret St Leger survives in Braunton parish Church.
Eulalia St Leger, who married firstly Edmund Tremayne of Collacombe, Devon, and secondly Tristram Arscott (1544-1621) of Tetcott, Devon, the latter who bought Annery from his father-in-law John St Leger.
Landholdings
Under a royal grant dated 10 June 1543 "John St Leger, King's servant" acquired the following former monastic lands following the Dissolution of the Monasteries:
Canonsleigh Priory in the parish of Burlescombe, site and demesne of.
Priory manor of Hockworthy.
Torre Abbey, site and demesne of, subject to a 21-year lease granted at Dissolution to Hugh I Pollard of King's Nympton. St Leger sold it in 1543 to Hugh Pollard.
Manor of Cullompton, formerly held by Buckland Abbey.
Manor of Upton Weaver (or Higher Upton) in the parish of Cullompton, formerly held by St Nicholas's Priory, Exeter.
Other non-monastic property in Devon
Small landholding in Cornwall.
The lands were exchanged with the king for other lands of St Leger, with an excess balance paid by him of £116 9s 9d.
Death
Despite accumulating much land, he became encumbered with debts and parted with many of his estates. He died "a poor man" and on the death of his son John without progeny the St Leger family of Annery was extinguished. However, another line descended from Randolf St Leger (d.1470), Sheriff of Kent and one of his great uncles, father of Sir Anthony St Leger (d.1559), KG, Lord Deputy of Ireland, whose descendants were created Viscount Doneraile, later inherited the manor of Eggesford in Devon.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_St._Leger_(died_1596)
Children:
1. Frances St. LEGER
2. John St. LEGER
3. Charles St. LEGER
4. Daniel St. LEGER
5. Elizabeth St. LEGER
6. Ulalia St. LEGER
7. Margaret St. LEGER
8. Catherine St. LEGER (b. 1572 - d. 1620)
9. Jane St. LEGER
10. Mary St. LEGER
11. Dudley St. LEGER (b. 1578 - d. 1627)
Married 2: Martha SCUDAMORE
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Biography Detail
Constituency
Family & Education
Offices Held
Biography
End Notes
Related Resources
1558-1603 Members
1558-1603 Constituencies
1558-1603 Parliaments
1558-1603 Surveys
PREVIOUS
BIOGRAPHY
NEXT
BIOGRAPHY
ConstituencyDates
DARTMOUTH
1555
DEVON
1559
ARUNDEL
1563
DEVON
1571
DEVON
1572
TREGONY
1584
Family and Education
b. by 1516, 1st s. of Sir George St. Leger of Annery by Anne, da. of Edmund Knyvet. m. by June 1535, Catherine, da. of George Neville, 5th Lord Bergavenny, at least 2s. 4da. suc. fa. bet. 1544 and 1547.
Offices Held
Commr. relief, Devon 1550, musters 1569; j.p. from 1554, q. from c.1559, sheriff 1560-1; dep. lt. Cornw. and Devon 1558, Devon 1569.1
Biography
St. Leger inherited considerable west-country estates, and remained an active local official from the reign of Henry VIII to almost the end of Elizabeth’s reign. He conformed to the state church, whether Catholic or protestant, but that his sympathies were with the reformers is suggested by the end Earl of Bedford’s appointing him a deputy lieutenant and by Elizabeth’s making him a visitor for the diocese of Exeter and giving him a rectory and advowson. St. Leger thrice sat as knight of the shire, and came in for Arundel (through his relative the 12th Earl of Arundel) and Tregony (through the Pomeroy family or the 2nd Earl of Bedford). His parliamentary career is of no special interest. He was on the succession committee (31 Oct. 1566), and was one of 30 Commons MPs summoned on 5 Nov. to hear the Queen’s message on the succession. He claimed privilege for a servant 9 Apr. 1571, at a time when he was himself up to his ears in debt, and served on committees concerned with navigation (8 May 1571), Devon harbours (11 May), tanners (11 May), and cloth (8 Feb. 1581).
On to Mar. 1581 the Lords sent down a bill for the restitution in blood of St. Leger’s two sons John and Dudley (probably Dudley was illegitimate) who had disgraced themselves by ‘certain lewd practices’ including robbery on Hounslow Heath, and had been in the Fleet after a brawl with the sons of Sir John Perrot. John St. Leger became a soldier, and wrote to Walsingham from the Netherlands asking him to persuade his father not to ‘bury himself in so dark a tomb that he leave no light, sign, or mark of his name, house, wife, family and children’. In 1589, when he was commanding troops in Ireland, the Privy Council granted him permission to visit Annery, where his father was ill, and there is a reference to another projected visit in the following year. In 1592 the old man was too infirm to take the oath of allegiance at the Devon sessions, but he was well enough to meet other justices at Barnstaple about the rating for the 1593 subsidy.
By this time many estates had been sold and St. Leger had been involved in lawsuit after lawsuit over his debts, on which he was paying 20% interest. On one occasion Richard Grenville II brought a case in the stannary courts against one Hilling for saying publicly to one of St. Leger’s servants: ‘Thy master is an old drunken bankrupt knave, a rogue and a rascally villain—and so go tell him’. The picture is one of general disintegration. Nothing is known of the last years of St. Leger’s life, and no inquisition post mortem survives. He died intestate before 7 Nov. 1596, when letters of administration were granted to his daughter Eulalia Arscott alias St. Leger—formerly wife of Edmund Tremayne. She renounced the administration in the following year, no doubt because of the insolvency of the estate. John St. Leger wrote to Salisbury in 1605 ‘if his father had left him that living which his ancestors left him, the world would have more respected him’. He asked that those who had bought Sir John’s lands ‘at so low a rate’ should give him compensation, and this not materializing, the St. Legers disappeared as a landed Devon family.2
Ref Volumes: 1558-1603
Author: N. M. Fuidge
Source: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/st-leger-%28sellenger%29-sir-john-1516-9396
John St. Leger (died 1596)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arms of St Leger of Annery, Devon: Azure fretty argent, a chief or
Sir John St. Leger (died 1596), of Annery in the parish of Monkleigh, Devon, was an English politician. Sheriff of Devon in 1560, he was Member of Parliament for Dartmouth, Devon, in 1555-1558, Devon in 1559–1563, Arundel, Sussex, in 1563-1571, Devon again in 1571-1583 and Tregony, Cornwall in 1584-1585. He was knighted in 1544.
Origins
He was the son of Sir George St. Leger (c.1475-1536), of Annery, by his wife, Anne Knyvett, daughter of Edmund Knyvett. His paternal grandparents were Sir James St. Leger, of Shipton, and Lady Anne Butler, heiress of Annery, daughter of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde[citation needed] and great-aunt of Queen Anne Boleyn. One of his great-uncles was Sir Thomas St Leger (c.1440-1483), the husband of Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter (1439-1476), sister of Kings Edward IV and Richard III. His great-grandfather was Sir John St Leger (c.1404-1442) lord of the manor of Ulcombe in Kent, whose three sons Randolf (or Ralph), Thomas and James, all made advantageous marriages. The manor of Ulcombe had been held by the family from the See of Canterbury from shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066, during which a St Leger knight is supposed by tradition to have supported William the Conqueror with his hand on disembarking from his ship at Pevensey. The name was Latinised to de Sancto Leodegario.
Marriage & progeny
He married Catherine Neville, daughter of George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny and according to Virgoe (1982) left two sons (only one according to Chope (1917) and four daughters:
Sons
John St Leger, eldest son, a soldier in Ireland, died unmarried and in poverty
Dudley St Leger, possibly illegitimate
Daughters
16th century mural monument of Richard Bellew of Ash and his wife Margaret St Leger of Annery in Braunton Church, Devon
Mary St Leger, the eldest, who married Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591) of Stowe, Kilkhampton, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon, the famous captain of Revenge.
Frances St Leger, who married John Stucley (1551-1611), of Affeton, Devon and was the mother of Sir Lewis Stucley
Margaret St Leger, who married Richard Bellew of Ash, Braunton and Alverdiscott, Devon. A heraldic mural monument to Richard Bellew and his wife Margaret St Leger survives in Braunton parish Church.
Eulalia St Leger, who married firstly Edmund Tremayne of Collacombe, Devon, and secondly Tristram Arscott (1544-1621) of Tetcott, Devon, the latter who bought Annery from his father-in-law John St Leger.
Landholdings
Under a royal grant dated 10 June 1543 "John St Leger, King's servant" acquired the following former monastic lands following the Dissolution of the Monasteries:
Canonsleigh Priory in the parish of Burlescombe, site and demesne of.
Priory manor of Hockworthy.
Torre Abbey, site and demesne of, subject to a 21-year lease granted at Dissolution to Hugh I Pollard of King's Nympton. St Leger sold it in 1543 to Hugh Pollard.
Manor of Cullompton, formerly held by Buckland Abbey.
Manor of Upton Weaver (or Higher Upton) in the parish of Cullompton, formerly held by St Nicholas's Priory, Exeter.
Other non-monastic property in Devon
Small landholding in Cornwall.
The lands were exchanged with the king for other lands of St Leger, with an excess balance paid by him of £116 9s 9d.
Death
Despite accumulating much land, he became encumbered with debts and parted with many of his estates. He died "a poor man" and on the death of his son John without progeny the St Leger family of Annery was extinguished. However, another line descended from Randolf St Leger (d.1470), Sheriff of Kent and one of his great uncles, father of Sir Anthony St Leger (d.1559), KG, Lord Deputy of Ireland, whose descendants were created Viscount Doneraile, later inherited the manor of Eggesford in Devon.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_St._Leger_(died_1596)
Children:
1. Frances St. LEGER
2. John St. LEGER
3. Charles St. LEGER
4. Daniel St. LEGER
5. Elizabeth St. LEGER
6. Ulalia St. LEGER
7. Margaret St. LEGER
8. Catherine St. LEGER (b. 1572 - d. 1620)
9. Jane St. LEGER
10. Mary St. LEGER
11. Dudley St. LEGER (b. 1578 - d. 1627)
Married 2: Martha SCUDAMORE
Family Members
Advertisement
Advertisement
