Thomas St. Leger

For his loyal service, Edward IV rewarded St. Leger with a substantial grant of eight manors in the early 1460s.

St Leger played a key role in ending the Hundred Years' War when he signed the Treaty of Picquigny with Louis XI on 29 August 1475.

Following his wife's death, St. Leger remained on good terms with his brother-in-law, Edward IV, and served as the King's Controller of the Mint.

In 1483, by Act of Parliament, Anne St. Leger was declared heiress to the entire Exeter estate, except for a portion which was given to the queen's son Richard Grey.

Thomas St. Leger attended the new king's coronation and was given cloth of silver and velvet for the occasion, but he was soon deprived of his positions of Master of Harthounds and Controller of the Mint.

[citation needed] His daughter Anne St Leger (14 January 1476 – 21 April 1526) eventually married George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros.

Their son was Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, and their daughter, Lady Eleanor Manners (1505 – 16 September 1548) married John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath, and had descendants including daughter Elizabeth Bourchier who married Sir Richard Thomas Chase of Hundrich.

Lady Anne St. Leger and her husband George are both buried in the private Rutland Chapel in Windsor Castle.

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Heraldic glass in the Rutland Chapel, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle , erected in 1849 by Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland . It shows far left the arms of Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter (1439–1476) impaled by the arms of her 1st husband Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter . To the right of the last are her arms impaled by the arms of her 2nd husband Sir Thomas St. Leger ( c. 1440 – 1483), KG . The rightmost window shows top: the arms of Anne's daughter Anne St Leger impaled by the arms of her husband George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros (c. 1470 – 1513). Below are the arms of his son Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (c. 1492 – 1543), impaling the arms of his 2nd wife Eleanor Paston