Medieval English families on the internet: L

Lacy

• Lords of the Honor of Clitheroe (Steve Lassey)
  Extract from An History of the Original parish of Whalley and Honor of Clitheroe, by Thomas Dunham Whitaker (1872 edn), concerning the Yorkshire de Lacys - later Earls of Lincoln - 11th to 14th centuries
• Lacy Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 11th-13th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
• Walter and Ilbert de Lacy (Pat Patterson)
  Biographies, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
• Land of Ilbert de Lacy from the Domesday Book of Yorkshire West Riding (Mike Milsom)

La Val

• Guy de la Val (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

L'Aigle

• Euguenulf de l'Aigle (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Langley

• A brief history of the Langleys and their estates (Aidan Langley) [formerly at http://merlin.csufresno.edu/~bm063/langley/cartular.htm; not available, 22 July 2004; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from June 2003]
  Various counties, 13th to 16th centuries; extract from Peter R. Coss, The Langley Cartulary published by the Dugdale Society (1980)

Langstaff

• The Langstaffs of Teesdale and Weardale [county Durham] (Carole A.M. Johnson)
  Text, in progress, of the book by George Blundell Longstaff [originally published 1906], with images of pedigrees; the text includes medieval extracts for various counties - mainly Yorkshire, Durham and Lincolnshire - 13th century and later

Latham

• Latham, c.1010-aft.1655 (Mark A. Wentling)
  Lancashire and other counties

Lawton

• The Realm of Lawton (Matthew Frederick Lawton) [not available, 3 February 2008; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from June 2007]
  The section on "The Lawton Family in England" contains much material on the Cheshire family, 13th century and later, including an image of the extensive pedigree from Ormerod's The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (1882), and a lengthy 19th-century article by Frank Renaud (in PDF format)

Leicester

• For the early Earls of Leicester, see 'Beaumont'.

Lennard

• The Family of Sampson Lennard and Margaret Fiennes, Baroness Dacre (J.A. Tappero)
  16th century; notes from Thomas Barrett-Lennard, An Account of the Families of Lennard and Barrett (1908), and other sources; see also Barnham/Barnum

Lestrange

• Hamon Le Strange, Le Strange Records (1916) (le Strange Archive) [formerly at http://www.asiawrite.co.nz/lestrange/library/records/index.html; not available, 27 February 2007; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from January 2006]
  Norfolk and the March of Wales; in progress
• C. L'Estrange Ewen, Observations on the Le Stranges With Some Corrections of Prevalent Genealogical Errors (1946) (le Strange Archive) [formerly at http://www.asiawrite.co.nz/lestrange/library/observations.html; not available, 27 February 2007; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from January 2006]
  12th century and later
• Hamon Le Strange, A Roll of Household Accounts of Sir Hamon le Strange of Hunstanton, Norfolk, 1347–48 (1917) (le Strange Archive) [formerly at http://www.asiawrite.co.nz/lestrange/library/accounts.html; not available, 27 February 2007; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from January 2006]

Limésy

• Ralph de Limésy: Conqueror's Nephew? The Origins of a Discounted Claim (Peter Jackson; in Prosopon issue 6) and Ralph de Limésy, Great Yarmouth and St. Albans: An Additional Note (Peter Jackson; in Prosopon, issue 9) (Prosopon, Journal of the Prosopography Centre, University of Oxford)
  Investigation of a spurious claim that a Domesday tenant was William I's nephew; PDF format

Lindsay

• The Origin of the Lindsays (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
  Scanned images, in PDF format, of a paper on the origins of the Scottish family, later Earls of Crawford, by Sir George Sitwell, in The Genealogist, new series, volume 12 (1896), with responses by J. H. Round and W. A. Lindsay, Windsor Herald. (Subscription required.)

Loges

• Edvin Loach (Roger Loach)
  Some occurrences of the 'de Loges' surname, 12th-14th centuries, Herefordshire/Warwickshire

Lomax

• On the origin of the Lomas/Lomax surname (David Lomas)
  Early occurrences of the surname in Lancashire and elsewhere, 14th-16th centuries
• Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America (Elias Loomis/Elisha S. Loomis)
  Account originally published in 1875, and revised 1908. Includes some notes on early occurrences of the surname in England. The conclusion of 1875 that the family came originally from Spain was superseded in 1908 by the work of Charles A. Hoppin, suggesting an Anglo-Saxon origin (cf the article above on the hamlet of Lumhalghs in Lancashire as the place of origin)

Longstaff: see Langstaff

Luttrell

• The Luttrells (Glenn Luttrell)
  Information from various sources on medieval Luttrells, in the sections on "Early Luttrells", "England" and "Ireland"

Lygon

• Lygon Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 14th-17th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution

Lytton

• Litton Family Genealogy and History Notes (David Blackwell)
  Miscellaneous notes, including Derbyshire/Hertfordshire, 15th and 16th centuries