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Thomas Leete died in 1495, and was the son of another Thomas Leete (1423-1454), who was the son of Richard Leete (1398-1423). The Leete family are well-documented, with four brothers of the family being mentioned in the Letters Patent of King John, Henry III, and Edward I, as they had been knight-crusaders who were rewarded for their service with knighthoods and manorial estates in S.Cambridgeshire, where the family had been resident for many generations.
A member of the family (John Liet) is mentioned in The Domesday Book as being a 'thegn of Edward's' (The Confessor), which might explain why he was able to keep his rank and possessions after the Norman conquest, as Edward had been as revered in Normandy as he was in England, and because John Liet had no connection to the administration of Harold Godwinson. As several family members became church wardens, their records were kept up-to-date, with their family connections and coats of arms now held in the British Library and other collections.
posted Nov 24, 2023 by Julian McSweeney (wikitree)
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1444 - 1495 (51 years)