John Leete of Eversden

1500 - 1551  (51 years)

• Name	John Leete of Eversden
  Birth	1500	Cambridgeshire, England
  Gender	Male
  FSID	LYT5-DDB
  Burial	Dec 1551	Cambridgeshire, England
  Death	25 Dec 1551	Cambridgeshire, England
  Person ID	I10641	footsteps
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Thomas Leete,   b. Abt 1474, Suffolkshire, England d. 9 Jul 1554, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Maria Slade,   b. 1478, Northinghamshire, England d. 25 Sep 1510, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 32 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1500	England, United Kingdom
  Family ID	F5927	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Helen Burgoyne,   b. 1500, Cambridgeshire, England d. 18 May 1564, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	1518	Cambridgeshire, England
  Children	+ 1. Robert Leete,   b. 1525, Cambridgeshire, England d. 17 Feb 1597, England, United Kingdom (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5766	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  The Leete family is an ancient one, traced back to before the Norman conquest of England. Leit is described in the Doomsday Book as a thane (a rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron) of the Anglo-Saxon, Edward the Confessor, King of England from 1042 until his death 5 Jan 1056/66. The manor of Foxcote in Buckinghamshire, worth £3 annually, is mentioned as being formerly held by Leit. The Eversden branch of the Leete family embraces the names of the known descendants of John Leete, of Eversden, Cambridgeshire whose name stands at the head of the family pedigree, recorded by the Heralds in their Visitation of Cambridgeshire in 1575, and again in 1619. From this John of Eversden also descend the Leetes of Suffolk, whose pedigree is recorded in the Visitation of Suffolk in 1612.