Family and Education
s. and h. of Sir Thomas Leybourne (d.c.1395) of Longsleddale by his w. Joan (d. by 1404) da. and h. of Alan Cunswick of Cunswick. m. by Oct. 1404, Margaret, wid. of Robert Sandford I (d.c.1403) of Sandford and Burton, at least 1s. 1da. Kntd. by Oct. 1404.Recs. Kendale ed. Farrer and Curwen, i. 303, 359-60; RP, iii. 564-5. The ped. of the Leybourne family given in Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. x. facing p. 124 wrongly describes Sir Robert as the son of John Leybourne, who was probably his brother.
Offices Held
Collector of taxes, Westmld. May 1398, Dec. 1406.
Commr. of array, Westmld. May 1415, Apr. 1418, Mar. 1427, Oct. 1429, Apr. 1431; oyer and terminer July 1441 (disorder at Brougham).
J.p. Westmld. 20 July 1424–32.
Escheator, Cumb. and Westmld. 24 Jan. 1426–17 Dec. 1427.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Longsleddale; Cunswick, Westmld.
Laybourne, Layburn(e)
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
LEYBOURNE, Sir Robert
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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