William Lygon1

b. 1512, d. 29 September 1567
William Lygon|b. 1512\nd. 29 Sep 1567|p4208.htm|Sir Richard Lygon|b. 1490\nd. 20 Mar 1556/57|p4181.htm|Margaret Greville|d. 1542|p4206.htm|Richard Lygon|||Anne Beauchamp|||Sir William Greville||||||

10th great-grandfather of William Lemuel Horn Jr.
12th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Horn and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for William Lemuel Horn II
     William Lygon was born about 1512.2 He was the son of Sir Richard Lygon and Margaret Greville.1 He of Madresfield married Eleanor Dennis, daughter of Sir William Dennis and Anne Berkeley, in 1529.1,3 He died on 29 September 1567 in Madresfield, Worcestershire, England.4,3
     
     William Lygon was Justice of the Hundred of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.3

Children of William Lygon and Eleanor Dennis

Citations

  1. [S596] Elizabeth Petty Bentley, indexed by, Genealogy of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. III (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982). "Lygon of Madresfield, Worcester, England, and Henrico, Virginia," by John Bennett Boddie, from 2nd Series, Vol. XVI (1936), 289-314, 485.
  2. [S597] William D. Ligon, The Ligon Family and Connections (Hartford: Bond Press, 1947), 45.
  3. [S629] Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Ealry Colonial Years (Boston: n.pub., 1955; Fifth Edition Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999), Line 66.
  4. [S596] Elizabeth Petty Bentley, Genealogy of Virginia Families III, 486.
  5. [S596] Elizabeth Petty Bentley, Genealogy of Virginia Families III, 491.
  6. [S596] Elizabeth Petty Bentley, Genealogy of Virginia Families III, 493.
  7. [S596] Elizabeth Petty Bentley, Genealogy of Virginia Families III, 494.
  8. [S596] Elizabeth Petty Bentley, Genealogy of Virginia Families III, 496.
  9. [S596] Elizabeth Petty Bentley, Genealogy of Virginia Families III, 497.