John Legbourne

{{Short description|English priest}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''John Legbourne''' was an [[England|English]] [[priest]] in the early [[15th-century|15th century]].<ref>{{cite wikisource |last1=Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst |first1=John |last2=Hardy |first2=Sir Thomas Duffus |author1-link=John Le Neve |author2-link=Thomas Duffus Hardy |title=Archdeacons of Leicester |wslink=Page:Fasti_ecclesiae_Anglicanae_Vol.2_body_of_work_part_1.djvu/73 |series=Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae |volume=2 |year=1854 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |pages=59–63 |wspages=65–69 }}</ref>

Legbourne was born in [[County Durham|Durham]] and was an executor of [[John of Gaunt]].<ref>[https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/CocksvolumeLXVII-5sm.pdf University of Leicester]</ref> He was [[Master of the Jewel Office]] from 1401 to 1403,<ref name="HolmesSitwell1972">{{cite book|author1=Martin Holmes|author2=Major-General H. D. W. Sitwell|title=The English Regalia: Rheir History, Custody and Display|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJ8sAQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|isbn=978-0-1167-0407-8|pages=79–80}}</ref> In 1424 he exchanged the [[benefice]] of [[Sedgefield]] with [[Richard Elvet]] for the [[Archdeacon of Leicester|Archdeaconry of Leicester]] .

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==See also== * [[Diocese of Lincoln]] * [[Anglican Diocese of Peterborough|Diocese of Peterborough]] * [[Diocese of Leicester]] * [[Archdeacon of Leicester]]

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