He is married to Blanche BOURCHIER.
They got married in the year 1474 at Ulcombe, Maidstone, Kent, he was 40 years old.
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Bartholomew St. Leger, mentioned in his father's will, "I will they enfeoff Bartholomew my son when 21 or at marriage of and in the manors of Eylnothynighton and Eylnothyng-tonesdowne with appurtenances and in one tenement called Pendecourte with appurtenances in Holingborne and in all other lands and tenements in Holyngbourne to him and his heirs males".
He was one of the leading rebels included in Lord Scrope's indictment at Great Torrington, November 1483, Scrope having been given a commission by King Richard III to hold a sessions in Devon to examine the loyalty of the gentlemen of Devon to the crown, as opposed to his rival the Earl of Richmond, the future King Henry VII. At this court many of the gentry of Devon were indicted of high treason, many fled to Brittany to join the Earl, but two were captured and beheaded in Exeter, namely Thomas St Leger and Sir John Kame.
He married (secondly?) Blanche Bourchier (d.1483), of whom a stone effigy exists in Shirwell Church, Devon, widow of Philip Beaumont (1432-1473) of Shirwell in North Devon and of Gittisham in East Devon, a Member of Parliament for a constituency in Devon and Sheriff of Devon in 1469, and a daughter of William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin (1407-1470) of Tawstock, feudal baron of Bampton and heir to a moiety of the feudal barony of Barnstaple, both in Devon.
One of the daughters and co-heiresses of Bartholomew St Leger was Margaret St Leger, 1st wife of John III Copleston (1475-1550), "The Great Copleston", of Copleston, Devon.
SOURCE: Wikipedia
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