RE: Marriage of Sir Simon Leek and Margaret de Vaux

I'll check the pages I've copied from Payling's book to see if he lists
the sources for his discussion of the Leek family. If I find them, I'll
post them to the list.

I may have already asked this before, but is anything known of the
ancestry of this Sir John Vaux? The fact that Payling, if I recall
correctly (my notes are at home, so I'll have to verify this), indicated
that the Leeks were an old (traceable back to the time of either Henry
II or John if I'm not mistaken) family in the neighborhood, but not
particularly distinguished, and that Sir Simon's marriage to Margaret
Vaux was a real move up the social ladder (as it were) is rather
interesting in light of your original post pointing out that they were
related within a prohibited degree...

mjcar...

Thanks, Jeff; that would be very useful. I was at the SoG the other
day, and looked through the Thoroton Society's extracted
Nottinghamshire IPMs, but there was nothing for Vaux (or Vallibus etc)
at all. John de Vaux was Sheriff from 1347 to 1350 (sic) according to
some online sources, but that's all I have been able to find. There
are no Notts Vauxs in the Knights of Edward I.

As Thoroton himself noted, it is hard to sort the Leeks out, but this
is partly because there are so many of them. Simon Leek is named in
one early IPM but no relationship is specified. As noted earlier, the
Leek pedigree (sub Hercy) in one of the Notts Visitations is faulty and
thus particularly unreliable.

Regards, Michael