Sir Anthony St Leger

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Sir Anthony St Leger

Birth
Ulcombe, Maidstone Borough, Kent, England
Death
16 Mar 1559 (aged 62–63)
Ulcombe, Maidstone Borough, Kent, England
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Eldest son and heir of Ralph ST LEGER of Ulcombe; created Knight, 1539; appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland by Henry VIII, 7 July 1540, and served in that capacity under Edward VI and Queen Mary; he was married to Agnes WARHAM, a niece of William WARHAM (the Archbishop of Canterbury, who married Henry to his first wife Catherine of Aragon); Agnes died shortly after her husband, but, to avoid heraldic complications, was buried a day before him.
Sir Anthony and Agnes had issue:
1. William ST LEGER, eldest son and heir; probably disinherited, perhaps in connection with the WYATT rebellion; he was married to Isabel KEYES (said to have been a daughter of Thomas KEYES, Sergeant-Porter to the Court of Queen Elizabeth); issue - a son Warham ST LEGER (killed at Cork, 1600, said to have been, by his wife Elizabeth WROTHE, ancestor of Elizabeth Angela Marguerite BOWES-LYON, wife of King George VI), and a daughter Ann ST LEGER, the first wife of Sir Robert PIGOTT of Dysart, Queen's County.
2. Warham ST LEGER, born about 1525; died 1597; married to Usula NEVILLE, with issue.
Eldest son and heir of Ralph ST LEGER of Ulcombe; created Knight, 1539; appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland by Henry VIII, 7 July 1540, and served in that capacity under Edward VI and Queen Mary; he was married to Agnes WARHAM, a niece of William WARHAM (the Archbishop of Canterbury, who married Henry to his first wife Catherine of Aragon); Agnes died shortly after her husband, but, to avoid heraldic complications, was buried a day before him.
Sir Anthony and Agnes had issue:
1. William ST LEGER, eldest son and heir; probably disinherited, perhaps in connection with the WYATT rebellion; he was married to Isabel KEYES (said to have been a daughter of Thomas KEYES, Sergeant-Porter to the Court of Queen Elizabeth); issue - a son Warham ST LEGER (killed at Cork, 1600, said to have been, by his wife Elizabeth WROTHE, ancestor of Elizabeth Angela Marguerite BOWES-LYON, wife of King George VI), and a daughter Ann ST LEGER, the first wife of Sir Robert PIGOTT of Dysart, Queen's County.
2. Warham ST LEGER, born about 1525; died 1597; married to Usula NEVILLE, with issue.

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Sir Anthony SENTLEGER Knight of the Most Honorable Order of the Garter, Gentleman of the Privie Chamber, & Employ'd in Most Honorable Offices under th most renowned Henry the Eight, and Edward the Sixt, Kinges, twice Lord Deputy of Ireland; By whose meanes in his first Government the Nonilitie and Commons there were induced by generall and free consent to geve unto Henrye the Eight King of England in that Province also Regalia Iura the Title and Scepter of Kinge to him and his posteritie for ever, whose praedecessors before were intituled only Lordes of Ireland.
This grave counsellor, after this course of life spent in service of the two rare and redoubted Kinges, having endured nevertheless some crosses in the tyme of Queene Mary, and yet living to see the foelicious raigne of our present peerelesse Queene Elizabeth, Departed Anno Savious 1559, about 63 yeares.

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