Madresfield Court is located next to the village of Madresfield in Worcestershire (about 100 miles west of London). It is the ancestral home of the Lygon family (spelled Ligon in America) who became Earls Beauchamp {1} (pronounced “Beecham”) {2}, who are the ancestors of the De Bracys, from near Domesday (1086) down to the present time. The Ligon (Lygon) family came from Normandy to England with William the Conqueror (1066). The Lygons go back to the time of the Norman Conquest, and when Madresfield was possessed by the De Bracys. Madresfield Court passed to the Lygon family from the De Bracy family when Joan, only daughter of William and Isabel Bracy, married Thomas Lygon before 1423. They had tho sons, William and Thomas Lygon. In 1450, Isabel Bracy made a demise to her grandson William Lygon the manor of Madresfield. The earliest patriarch of the family was George Lygon and is the first of the family in the pedigree given by the Lygons to the Heralds. George Lygon was succeeded by his son Richard Lygon. Richard is the first mentioned Lygon in Madresfield Muniments around 1400. Richard Lygon was succeeded by his son Thomas Lygon whose first mention is in 1414 and 1416, when he is commissioner of the King (Henry VI) for Worcester. This is the earliest known history of the Leagans Family.