Sir George ST LEDGER of Annery
- Born: Cir 1484
- Marriage (1): Anne KNYVETT circa 1513
- Died: 1536 aged about 52
General Notes:
About the family see his son's biography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_St._Leger_(died_1596)
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.[3] The name was Latinised to de Sancto Leodegario.
George married Anne KNYVETT, daughter of Sir Edmund KNYVETT of Buckenham and Eleanor TYRELL, circa 1513. (Anne KNYVETT was born circa 1492 in Buckenham Castle, Norfolk, England and died in 1528.)
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