This hospital was refounded by brothers & sisters on the location of an antique leper hospital in 1327. The original site was thought to have been founded in 1171 by King Henry II.
The Victoria History of the County of Derby2:84-86 available online at ">http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40134&strquery=st.%2... [Victoria County History]
Dugdale's Monasticon Volume 6 Part 2
Maison Dieu and St. Leonard's Hospitals, at Derby
Further verification needed to show that there were women at this hospital. According to VCH and Dugdale this was a male foundation for male lepers. EMS 5/08