JOHN LESTRANGE V, son and heir, aged 22 and more at the date of his father's death; on 16 May 1276 he had done homage, and was to have his lands. In 1277 he was going to Wales on the King's service. On 10 January 1277/8, as "the king's yeoman", he had pardon for a debt due from his father. In 1292 he established his claim to free warren in Ness, Milton and Middle. On 12 December 1276, and frequently thereafter until 1287, he was summoned to serve against the Welsh; in 1294 he was summoned to Portsmouth to cross to France; and from 1298 to 1308 he was summoned to serve against the Scots. From 26 September 1299 to 10 March 1307/8 he was summoned to Parliament by writs directed Johanni Extraneo, whereby he is held to have become LORD STRANGE, and from 4 March 1308/9 to 12 December 1309 by writs directed Johanni Lestraunge de Knokyn. His seal was appended to the Barons' Letter to the Pope, where he is described as Johannes Lestraunge dominus de Knokyn or Johannes le Straungge. On 18 January 1307/8 he was summoned to attend the Coronation of Edward II. In 1308 he obtained a licence to crenellate his house of Middle.
John V Lestrange, 1st Lord (Baron) Strange (of Knockyn), so created by writ 26 Sep 1299 onwards (first as Extraneus (Strange) then 4 March 1308/9 onwards as Strange of Knockyn); served in Edward I's Welsh campaigns 1276-87 and Scottish campaigns 1298-1308; married 1st Alienore, daughter of Joan (widow of Stephen de Somery; died c1240) and a subsequent husband of Joan's perhaps Godfrey de Crawcumbe; married 2nd Maud, daughter and heiress either of Roger de Deyville, of Walton Deyville, Warwicks, or of Ebles de Montibus, of Ketton, Rutland, leaving (presumably by his 2nd wife, since her putative paternity would account for the unusual forename Ebles being given to the 2nd son). [Burke's Peerage]
He married, 1stly, between 13 October 1275 and 1 June 1276, Alianore daughter and heir of Eble DE MONTZ, Constable of Windsor Castle, by Joan, widow of Godfrey DE CRAUCOMBE and before this of Stephen DE SOMERY, perhaps daughter of [---] DE BECHE. She died before 14 August 1282. He married 2ndly Maud, widow of John DE STRADLING, or STRUTTELINGAS [died shortly before February 1282/3], daughter and heir of John DE WALTON, of Little Wellesborne and Walton Deyville, co. Warwick [died before 28 December 1277], by his wife Isabel. He died on or before 8 August 1309. His widow married between 30 October 1309 and 28 November 1310, as his 1st wife, Thomas DE HASTANG, of Chebsey, co. Stafford, who died in or before 1348. She died before July 1325. [Complete Peerage XII/1:352-3, XIV:596]