Thomas Leete
1444 - 1495 (51 years)-
Name Thomas Leete Birth 1444 Cambridgeshire, England 
Gender Male FSID LRCX-CX4 Death 3 Feb 1495 Cambridgeshire, England Person ID I11142 footsteps | DonCampbell Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
Father Thomas Leete, b. 1423, Cambridgeshire, England d. 1454, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 31 years) Relationship natural Mother Isabella Everston, b. 1426, Cambridgeshire, England d. Aft 1444, Cambridgeshire, England (Age > 19 years) Relationship natural Marriage Bef 1444 Family ID F20499 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Alse Huntington, b. 1444, England, United Kingdom d. 3 Feb 1506, Huntingdonshire, England (Age 62 years) Marriage 1474 Children + 1. Thomas Leete, b. Abt 1474, Suffolkshire, England d. 9 Jul 1554, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 80 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F6049 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
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Notes - 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)
- 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.