father death_date mother birth_date issue spouse article_title name
denis leche march 1530 1450 elizabeth -lrb- surname unknown -rrb- c. 1450 james bodley john bodley denise bodley elizabeth bodley thomas bodley thomas bradbury joan leche
 joan leche
joan leche

joan leche -lrb- c. 1450 -- march 1530 -rrb- , benefactress , was the wife successively of thomas bodley , and of thomas bradbury , lord mayor of london in 1509 .
she founded a chantry in london , and a grammar school in saffron walden , essex .
her great-grandson , sir john leveson -lrb- 1555 -- 1615 -rrb- , was instrumental in putting down the essex rebellion of 8 february 1601 , and her great-grandson william leveson -lrb- d. 1621 -rrb- acted as trustee for the original shareholders of the globe theatre .
