♂ Sir Thomas Leighton

1453 - 1519

 

Knight, of Wattlesborough, in Shropshire, and Stretton in le Dale

Sir Thomas Leighton
Parents
Anchoretta Burgh
Anchoretta Burgh
???? - 1471
John Leighton
John Leighton
???? - 1493
Children

1471


Age: 18y

property


Wattlesborough, Shropshire, England ⇓
Wattlesborough Castle was given to the Leighton family in 1471. It was kept by them until 1711. The picture is of Wattlesborough Tower.
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1471 Moorish exiles from Spain, led by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa Ben Rached El Alami, found the city of Chefchaouen in the north of Morocco.
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1475


Age: 22y
1475 Battle of Vaslui: Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire, which is led at this time by Mehmed the Conqueror of Constantinople.

1501


Age: 48y
Burgh/Leighton - Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume 2

Partition


In 1501 a partition was made of the estates of Sir John Burgh and his wife Jane Clopton between their four coheirs, including Thomas Leighton, the son of John Leighton and Ankaret his wife, mother of the daughters who had also predeccased him.
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1501 • The Florentine political theorist, statesman, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini, who will bear him six children.

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