STRANGE(a)[1] or LE STRANGE.
Barony by writ.I. 1295, to 1311. 1. Roger Le Strange, was sum. to Parl, as a Baron (Lord Strange) 24 June. 3 Sep. and 2 Nov. (1295) 23 Ed. I. and 36 Aug. (1296) 24 Ed. I. He was also sum 26 Jan (1296/7) 25 Ed. I, to attend the King at Salisbury, but such summons cannot be considered as a regular writ of summons to Parl.(b)[2] His name appears on the letter of the Barons to the Pope in 1301 as "Roj us Le Estrange de Ellesm'e" (c)[3] From his possession of Ellesmere it is probable that he was the Roger who suc. his brother Hamon Le Strange, about 1272, in that estate, both being sons of Hamon le Strange, of Ellesmere, co. Salop, who was a yr. son of John Le Strange, of Knokin. He appears to have m. Matilda, widow of Roger Mowbray, "one of the nieces and coheirs of Joane de Beauchamp, niece of William de Beauchamp, of Bedford."(d)[4] He d. 1311 leaving issue, but after his death the Barony became dormant, and no claim thereto has ever beeu made. Neither "Roger Le Strange, his s. and h., nor his [the last named Roger's] s. and h. John Le Strange, were ever sum. to Parl. The latter d. s.p. 1330.(e)[5]
Barony by writ.I (bis) 1325 to 1335 1. Sir Eubulus Le Strange, 2d s. of John (Le Strange) 1st Lord Strange de Knokin, by Maud, presumably(f)[6], a second wife, and the da. and h. of Eubulus de Montibus, of Ketton. co. Rutland; was K. B. 10 Ed. II. (1325-26), having robes as a Baronet, and served in the wars with Scotland, 1327 to 1335. Having m., before 1326, Alice, who may be considered suo jure Countess of Lincoln, widow of Thomas (Plantagenet) Earl of Lancaster (beheaded 22 March 1321/2). da. and h. of Henry (de Lacy), Earl of Lincoln, by his first wife, Margaret, who may be considered as suo jure Countess on Salisbury, he was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD STRANGE) from 3 Dec. (1326) 20 Ed. II. to 1 April (1335) 9 Ed. III. V (g)[7] He who is sometimes in right of his said wife styled Earl of Lincoln d. s.p. 1335 and was bur. in Berling Abbey. Inq p. mortem (1334/5), 9 Ed. III. His widow m. thirdly, early in 1336, Hugh (de Frene), Lord Frene (so sum. 29 Nov. 1336), who, also, is sometimes (in her right) styled Earl. of Lincoln, and who d. s.p., Dec. 1336, at Perth. The Countess herself, who was b. 1283, d. s.p., 2 Oct. 1348. and was bur. at Berling Abbey afsd.
- ↑ (a) The origin of the name, according to Dugdale (quoting an ancient MS. of Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, at the Coll. of Arms) was from the younger of the two sous of the Duke of Bretaigne, present at a just, held at Castle Peverell temp Henry I. who being named Guy, was called Guy Le Strange [extraneus] from whom the several families of the Stranges did descend" . . . concluding that Guy, Hamon and John who possessed lands in Salop, about the beginning of King Henry the Second's reign, were sons to the first-mentioned Guy'"
- ↑ (b) See vol. i, p. iii, note "b," sub "Ap Adam" as to the writ of 26 Jan. 1206/7.
- ↑ (c) See "Nicolas" pp. 761-809 for a good account of this letter.
- ↑ (d) "Dydale" where in the tabular ped. (vol. i, p. 664) "Rogerus Le Strange [1266/7] 51 Hen. III." marries "Matilda, relicta Hog. de Mowbray," but the dates seem somewhat inconsistent, and the said Roger and Hamon are there conjectured to be sons [not grandsons] of John Le Strange of Knokin.
- ↑ (e) "Courthorpe," who adds, "Lucy, his sister, m. firstly Guy de St. Armand, and secondly, Simon de Leyburne, by whom she was mother of John de Leyburue, cousin and h. of the said John le Strange; he died s.p., leaving Catherine his sister and h. wife of Geoffrey de Lucy, father of Geoffrey, father of Reginald, father of Sir Walter de Lucy, who left two daughters and coheirs, Eleanor wife of Thomas Hopton, and Matilda wife of William Vaux (grandfather of Nicholas Vaux, Lord Vaux of Harrowden), amongst whose descendants this Barony is in abeyance."
- ↑ (f) In Blore's "Rutland" (p. 228), the parentage of the mother of this Eubulus is thus given, which, from the name, Eubulus, seems likely, but in Dugdale only one wife is given to this John, viz., Maud, da. and h. of Roger Deyville.
- ↑ (g) There is proof in the rolls of Parl, of his sitting.
