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1. le Strange, John VI
   1. de Walton, Isolda
      1. le Strange, Roger
         1. de Ingham, Joan
            1. le Strange, Isabel
            2. Le Strange, Alianore
            3. le Strange, Eubulo
         2. de Coucy, Maud
            1. le Strange, Roger
      2. Strange, Eleanor

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Source References

1. http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=:2693025&id=I527869179&style=TABLE
2. Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition
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        Roger Lestrange, 4th Lord (Baron) Strange (of Knockyn) [2nd son, eldest was John VII Lestrange, 3rd Lord, who died by 28 May 1323]; Knight Banneret Jan 1326/7; inherited estates from his uncle Ebles Lestrange, 1st and last Lord Lestrange of the 1326 creation; in 1347 was serving abroad in Hundred Years War; married 1st Maud and had [Roger]; married 2nd by 25 March 1344, as her 1st husband, Joan de Ingham, Baroness Ingham in her own right (married 2nd 1350-51, as his 2nd wife, Sir Miles de Stapleton and died 1360-65), daughter and eventual heiress of Oliver, 1st Lord Ingham of the 1328 creation, and died without having had further issue 29 July 1349.

3. Roger le Strange, 4th Baron Strange in Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
   1. • Source text:

        Roger le Strange, 4th Baron Strange [1,2,3,4]
        Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
        M, #15984, b. 15 August 1301, d. 29 July 1349
        Father John VI le Strange, 2nd Baron Strange [5] b. c 1282, d. c 6 Feb 1311
        Mother Isolda [5] d. a 18 May 1324
        Roger le Strange, 4th Baron Strange married Maud de Coucy, daughter of Sir Enguerrand VII de Coucy, Earl of Bedford, Comte de Soissons, Seigneur de Coucy, Oisy, Montmiral, & Marle, Grand Marshal & Butler of France, Governor of Brittany, 4th Lord Gynes; His 1st marriage. They had 1 son (Sir Roger). [2,4] Roger le Strange, 4th Baron Strange was born on 15 August 1301 at of Knockin, Shropshire, England; Age 22 in 1322. [4] He married Joan de Ingham, daughter of Sir Oliver de Ingham, Lord Ingham and Elizabeth la Zouche, before 25 March 1344; No issue. [6,3,4] Roger le Strange, 4th Baron Strange died on 29 July 1349 at Sedgebrook Manor, Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire, England, at age 47. [3,4]
        Family 1: Maud de Coucy d. b 25 Mar 1344
        Children: Ankaret le Strange+ [7] d. b 19 Nov 1389
        Sir Roger le Strange, 5th Lord Strange+ [8,2,4] b. c 1327, d. 23 Aug 1382
        Family 2: Joan de Ingham d. bt 26 Jun 1360 - 12 Dec 1365
        Citations:
        1. [S4483] Unknown author, Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 2339.
        2. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 123.
        3. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 34.
        4. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 63.
        5. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 62.
        6. [S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VII, p. 61.
        7. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 27.
        8. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 692-693.

      • Citation:

        https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p532.htm#i15984

4. Le Strange, Hamon, 1840-1918: Le Strange records : a chronicle of the early Le Stranges of Norfolk and the March of Wales A.D. 1100-1310
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        page 327 Roger was summoned to Portsmouth with 10 men of arms and 27 archers. He was summoned to Parliament 25 Feb 1342- 10 March 1348.
        page 328 Roger married twice: Maud was the mother of his son and heir Roger II. Joan Ingham who was mentioned in her father's inquest 23 March 1344 as married to Roger.
        page 329 Roger died 29 July 1349

      • Citation:

        https://archive.org/stream/lestrangerecords00lestuoft#page/330/mode/2up

5. C. L'ESTRANGE EWEN: Observations on the Le Stranges With Some Corrections of Prevalent Genealogical Errors
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        The writer spent years collecting data relating to the family of Le Strange and only abandoned the work in 1916 upon the appearance of Le Strange Records.[1] Among the documentary evidence thus cast aside were numerous corrections of existing pedigrees and the principal object of the present paper is to draw attention to some of the errors, and, in particular, to the confusion of two Joan Somerys, two half-brothers named John le Strange, two Joan Inghams, and two families of “Le Strange of Walton” (i.e., one of co. Warw. and one of co. Norfolk[2]), and to show that the former sprang from Le Strange of Knockin, Salop.

        In the first place some matters of the early history of more interest than relevance may be glanced at. The ancient armigerous family of Le Strange became established in England soon after the Norman conquest. The existence of families of the name in France in medieval days points to the possibility of the patronymic having originated on the other side of the Channel, and probably in Anjou or Brittany. Passing over a doubtful Guido cognomina de Lestrange said to be the 29th bishop of Puy in the year 984,[3] then Estraunge of Destraunges entered on the copies of the much discredited Battle Abbey rolls,[4] and also that Guy said by tradition to be the son of a “Duke of Brittany,”[5] the first authenticated individual bearing the name is one Bernard le Strange (Extraneous) who, according to a contemporary chronicler, figured at the first crusade (1096-1101).[6]

        In England the earliest proved progenitor was Siward, ancestor of a family of Le Stranges of Litcham (Norf.).[7] Knowing that Durand le Strange (Extraneus), son of Ralph, son of Siward, had been living about 1160 it is inferable that Siward was contemporary with Bernard, the crusader, and may have flourished in Norfolk at an even earlier date.[8] In this country the oldest extant notices of Le Stranges are as witnesses; Rual’ to a gift of lands in Kempston (Launditch hundred) by Alan fitz Flaald to the monks of Castleacre Priory (Norf.);[9] Rivallon (i.e. Rhiwallon) to a gift of the church of Sporle (near Castleacre) by the same Alan to St. Florent Abbey in Anjou[10]; and Rodland to a gift of the church of Kempston by Roger son of Wimer, lord of the honour of Gressenhall and seneschal to William de Warren (II), also to the monks of Castleacre.[11] The grants are undated, but all probably passed about the same time, the two first mentioned certainly before 1114, after which date nothing more is heard of Alan fitz Flaald. Rual’, Rivallon, and Rodland may be one or two individuals.

        Gressenhall being situated but five miles from Litcham it is not unlikely that Siward and Roland were kinsmen, certainly for many years their families kept up a friendly association. The descendants of Siward held lands principally in Norfolk under the suzerainty of the Fitz Alans, but never attained to the importance of Roland’s posterity, who founded several noble and powerful houses. Roland greatly enhanced his family’s fortune by marrying Maud (Matilda), daughter and, in her issue, heiress of Ralph, son of Herluin, the Domesday Book tenant of lands in Hunstanton and other places in Norfolk, which came by this marriage to the Le Stranges.[12] Roland had four sons, namely, John, Guy, Hamo and Ralph.(sic, missing footnote) The first three named went into Shropshire to be enfeoffed in that country by King Henry II. From the eldest son “Johannes cognomento le Strange,” lord of Ness and Cheswardine (Salop) and Hunstanton (Norf.) were descended the three baronial houses of Knockin, Blackmere and Ellesmere, the knights of Warwickshire,[13] the long line of knights and baronets of Hunstanton, and several families of Le Strange in Ireland, India, Africa, and Australia, and doubtless many a minor branch whose origin is unknown. Records of the family may be found in all the counties of England, except perhaps Surrey and the four most northern ones, and they also held much land in Wales and the Marches.

        The death of the above John le Strange is noticed under 1178,[14] his successor being a second John, who died 1233.[15] His son and heir, John le Strange (III) having deceased in 1269,[16] left a son and heir, John the fourth, who was drowned in the Severn in 1275,[17] to be succeeded by John the fifth,[18] who died in 1309.[19] “Johannes Extraneus sextus dominus de Knokyn” only survived his father about eighteen months,[20] when he was succeeded by the last of the seven successive Johns, who lived until 1323.[21] Besides the Johns of the main line numerous collaterals bore this popular name, and, in fact, at one time in the fourteenth century there were living upwards of twenty John le Stranges who have left their names on the rolls, so it is not surprising that genealogists have occasionally tripped up.

        The author of Le Strange Records has made one individual of John le Strange, king’s yeoman (Hoxne), John le Strange, king’s yeoman (Middle), and John le Strange, the second baron of Blackmere, with most unfortunate results to his eighth chapter. The following corrections are necessary. p.288 (pedigree); p.305 (training as valettus Regis); p.306 (illness); p307 (Conway Castle and vill of Nevin); p.308 (grants re Mudle). Particularly misleading is the statement that “we have seen John le Strange of Blackmere several times designated as the King’s valet or yeoman.” On p.310 the author throws doubt on the entries on the Rotuli Scotiae, 1334 (i. 307a), where the three names occur: Johannes le Straunge de Knokyn, Johannes le Straunge de Whitchurche, Johannes le Straunge de Midlee. The only slip is that the first John should have been Roger, John the brother having died in 1323. Clerks not infrequently summoned a deceased person instead of the living representative. p.311 (Criccieth Castle). The Complete Peerage also makes John le Strange (II) of Blackmere, governor of Conway Castle in 1330 (vii, 271) the same error having previously occurred in Dugdale’s Baronage of England (I, 667). Sir John, then in full seisin of his lands (C1.R., 1 Edw. III, pt. 1, m25) had received his first summons to parliament as a baron so he could not have been the valet or yeoman of the name. Du Cange and other authorities are of the opinion that the appellation of valet was generally given to youths of good family not yet knighted. Dugdale translates dilectus valettus noster, ‘our beloved esquire.’

        Regarding John le Strange (IV), it has been generally and correctly recognised that his wife was Joan, d. and h. of Roger de Someri, and that, as customary, in her widowhood, she might use her maiden name and be known as Lady de Somery, but it has hitherto escaped notice that his son’s mother-in-law was also called Lady Joan de Somery. The result is that writers have been regarding the mother and mother-in-law of John (V) as one individual! It adds to the coincidence that both ladies died in their widowhood and in the same year (1282).[22]

        The following corrections fall to be noted. Blomefield cited, ix. 30. A paragraph should be deleted as it refers to Middleton (now Milton), Cambs., not Middleton, Norf. John de Somery and John, Lord Somery, should read Joan de Somery (i.e., widow of Stephen de Somery). x, 316, 333. Lady Joan (1280) is called wife instead of mother of John le Strange. Le Strange Records, 186, 221. For John’s mother read Alianora’s mother. This one error has led to several others relating to the issue, etc.

        John le Strange (V), 1st lord Strange of Knockin, married twice, but no genealogist has given correctly the names of both wives. Both ladies were heiresses, the first, Alianora, daughter of Sir Eble de Montz (Montibus), constable of Windsor Castle, the second, Maud, daughter of John de Walton of Walton Deiville, Warw.

        Thomas Blore, the antiquarian of Rutland, in 1811, was the first to mention the De Montibus alliance, but calls the lady, Maud (History 228). Blomefield cited (x, 316) and others followed. Later writers, Eyton and Le Strange, made no attempt to discover the parentage of Alianora. Blomefield (ix, 30) makes her daughter of John, Lord Someri. Dodsworth, Bodleian MS, vol. 78, f. 667b ex cartulario Abb. de Barlings (Cott. MS. Faust B 1), Dugdale cited (i. 665), Blomefield (x, 316), Eyton (x, 262), Carthew (part I, 142), Le Strange (186), all make Maud, the second wife, a daughter of Roger Deiville. Dugdale in the Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1730, a later work than his Baronage (1675) correctly names the lady, but the information has not yet been adopted by the peerages and other genealogical works, which are perpetuating the error (Cokayne, iv, 178; vii, 268, 273).

        Evidences supporting the above assertion that Sir John le Strange (V), 1st lord Strange of Knockin, co. Salop, married as first wife, Alianora, d. and h. of Sir Eble de Montz (1) by his wife Joan, widow of Stephen de Somery, and neither Alianore, d. of John de Somery, nor Maud, d. of Sir Eble de Montz.

        Milton and Haslingfield, Cambs.

        a 1255 Peter de Beche holds the manor of Middleton (Milton) (C1. R., 9 Hen. III, m. 12).
        b 1239 Stephen de Sumery died seven years ago, sine prole, his four sisters coheirs and Joan, his wife, surviving (Inq. P.m. C., 31 Hen. III, 5, 3.) Stephen died seised of the manor of Haslingfield (Orig., 10 Edw. I, ro. 12).
        c 1245 Joan the wife of Godfrey de Crawecumbe (both living) holds Middleton for life in dower. (Pat. R., 29 Hen. III, m. 7.)
        d temp. Hen. III. Godfrey de Craucumbe held in Haslingfield half a knight’s fee of the barony of Stephen de Sumery (Test. Nev., 353b, 355b).
        e 1252 Eble de Montz was husband of Joan de Somery (Fin., 36 Hen. II, m. 16).
        f 1256 Joan, the wife of Eble de Montz, was widow of Godfrey de Crawcumbe (Fin., 40 Hen. III, m. 6).
        g 1268-9 Eble de Montz (I) died (Pat. R., 53 Hen. III, m. 11.)
        h 1276 Joan de Somerye acknowledges that she gave to John le Estraunge and Alianora, his wife and her daughter, the manor of Middleton to hold to them and the heirs of the body of Alianora (Plac. Abb., 190b.)
        k 1282 Joan de Somery[23] dying without issue surviving, the four nephews of Stephen de Somery, her heirs, divide the manor of Haslingfield (Inq. p.m. C., 10 Edw. I, 54, 10.)
        l

        1309

        John le Strange (V) at his death held Midilton jointly with Maud, his wife, who survived (Inq. p.m. C., 3 Edw. II, 16, 6.)

        m 1309 The manor of Middelton is delivered to Maud[24] (C1. R., 3 Edw. II, m. 19.)
        n 1322 John le Strange (VII) was kinsman and heir of Eble de Montz. (Inq. p.m. C., 16 Edw. II, 74, 24.)
        Giving consideration to these evidences the conclusion is that Stephen de Somery, tenant of Haslingfield, Cambs. (b) dying before 1239 without issue (b) left Joan (b) [probably a lady of the De Beche family since she holds their manor of Milton (a. c)] his widow, who retained, as her dower, the manor of Milton (c) as also Haslingfield? (d). She married, secondly, Godfrey de Craucumbe (c), who is associated with both manors (c, d) and who left her a widow 1245-52 (c. e). She married, thirdly, Sir Eble de Montz (e. f), constable of Windsor Castle, and had a daughter, Alianora[25] (h), who died before 1282 in the lifetime of her mother (k). Alianora de Montz, the only child of Lady Joan, received the manor of Milton as a marriage portion on her alliance with Sir John le Strange (V) (h). Lady Joan died 1282 (k) without heirs of her body surviving and Haslingfield was divided among her first husband’s nephews. The manor of Milton remained in the Le Strange family (l. m). There is no suggestion that Sir John le Strange (V) married a daughter of John de Somery or Maud, a daughter of Eble de Montz. If Maud, who survived her husband John le Strange, had been of the family of De Montz she and not Stephen de Somery’s nephews would have been the heir of Joan de Somery. If the case as stated should not be considered strong enough reference may be made to evidences relating to the manor of Ketton, Rutland (Blore 228). This manor, formerly held by Sir Eble, also came into the Le Strange family, further supporting the theory of a Le Strange–De Montz marriage, as does also the fact that a son of John le Strange (V) was baptised Eble, the first appearance of the name in the family, and moreover John le Strange (VII)[26] is called kinsman and heir of Eble de Montz (n), who had died 1268-9 (g).[27]

        Evidences supporting the statement in pedigree that Sir John le Strange (V), 1st lord Strange of Knockin, co. Salop, married as second wife Maud, d. and h. of John de Walton and not Maud, d. of Roger Deiville of Walton, co. Warwick, as hitherto recorded.

        Walton, etc., Warw.

        p 1277 It appears that Roger de Eyvill being in debt had sold the manor of Wauton, co. Warw., to Simon de Wauton, who granted the same to his son John de Wauton now deceased (Fin., 6 Edw. I, m. 28.)
        q 1278 Maud de Wauton is in the wardship of Godfrey Giffard, bishop of Worcester (Hund., f. 85b.)
        r 1284 Maud de Wauton married John de Stretling (Reg. Giff. Bp. Of Worc., f. 382a. Dugdale, Warw., 572, 576.)
        s 1285 Matilda, d. and h. of John de Wauton, holds of Thomas, son of Gervase de Wauton, lands in Wauton Deyvyll, Wauton Maudut, Welleburn, Loxley, Bradele and Totebache, and elsewhere in the realm. (C1. R., 13 Edw. I, m. 8d.)
        t 1292-1303 John de Estratlingges of co. Warwick died (C1. R., 21 Edw. I, m. 10d; 31 Edw. I, m. 17.)
        v 1309 John le Strange (V), lord of Knockin, died seised of the manor of Walton Deyvile of the inheritance of Maud, his wife (Inq. p.m. C., 3 Edw. II, 16, 6.)
        w 1391 William, son and heir of John le Strange (ii) is “hæres vel assignatus Simonis de Walton.” (Reg. Wakefield, Bp. Of Worc., f. 80; Dugdale, Warw., 572.)
        As stated above, after the death of Alianora de Montz, the manor of Milton remained in the hands of her husband John le Strange (V), who settled it upon himself and second wife Maud,[28] an arrangement only to be made with the consent of John VI (son of Alianora), he being the heir by the terms of the grant of Lady Joan de Somery.[29] The inquisition taken on the death of John le Strange (V) 1309 distinguishes the nature of the tenures. The manors of Walton Deyvile, co. Warw., and Shenyngton and Alcrynton, co. Oxf., were held as of the inheritance of Maud, his wife (v). The manor of Middleton was held jointly with Maud, his wife.

        The evidences cited make it patent that Sir Roger Deiville[30] (the wrongly supposed father of Maud), being in debt, sold his lands of Walton, Warw., to Simon de Walton (p), who granted them to his son, and since Maud afterwards inherited them, she cannot have been the daughter of Sir Roger. The son of Simon de Walton was John (p), and the latter’s daughter and heir, Maud (s), and this is the lady who became second wife of Sir John le Strange (V) (s. v) he being her second husband (r.t). She married thirdly, Sir Thomas de Hastang of co. Warwick.[31]

        Having settled the wives of John le Strange (V) we may notice the children of the two marriages and clear up a state of confusion arising from a son by each wife being named John. As recorded above, the eldest son of John (V), by his first wife Alianora de Montz, was John (VI), who died two years after his father. The parentage of his wife Yseult (Isolda) has not been determined, but several genealogists,[32] without citing any authority, make her daughter and heir of John de Walton, evidently having confused her with the father’s second wife.

        John (VI) had two brothers of the full-blood, Hamo, to whom he granted Hunstanton in 1309, and Eble, who married the elderly widow of Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster (cousin of King Edward II) and had no issue. He also had several sisters whose alliances are as yet somewhat uncertain.

        John (V) by his second wife, Maud de Walton, had a daughter Elizabeth, who on 9 July 1304, being then aged six, married Griffith ap Madoc, Prince of Powys Vadoc, whose grandson was the Welsh patriot Owain Glyndwr. No son has been noticed hitherto, but the present analysis proves John le Strange, king’s yeoman, lord of Middle, to have been a distinct entity and son of Maud de Walton, and so half-brother to John le Strange (VI) 2nd lord Strange of Knockin, with whom he has been much confused. Evidences relating to the manor of Middle, Salop, clarify the two identities.

        Middle manor, Salop.

        1275 John le Strange (IV) of Knockin died seised (Inq. p.m. C., 4 Edw. I, 14, 4.)
        1299 John le Strange (V) of Knukyn, by fine granted the manors of Mudle and Ritton to Ralph de Sherleye, who, by a second fine, entailed the manor of Mudle on the said John and Maud, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of the said John. (C1. R., 3 Edw. II, m. 19; Eyton, x. 67.)
        1309 John le Strange (V) died seised (Inq. p.m., above p. 5.)
        1309 Mudle was assigned to Maud, the widow, in dower (C1. R., 3 Edw. II, mm. 17, 19.)
        1311 John le Strange (VI) died holding an annual rent of 6s. 8d. only in Mudle (Inq. p.m. C., 4 Edw. II, 20, 15.)
        1316 Thomas de Hastanges, who had married Maud le Strange before 1310 (C1. R., 3 Edw. II, m. 8.) is lord of Mudele (Feud. Aids., iv, 230.)
        1328-9 By successive royal grants John le Strange, king’s yeoman, had free warren and view of frankpledge in his manor of Modle (Chart. R., 2 Edw. III, m. 5; 3 Edw. III, m. 6.)
        1348 Baldwin de Freville and Ida, his wife, held Muddle (Feud. Aids., iv. 235.)
        The king’s yeoman holding Middle in 1328 it is manifest that he was not of the main line of the barons of Knockin, the seventh and last successive John having been succeeded by his brother Roger in 1323. Further the Rotuli Scotiae 1334[33] distinguishes him from both the Knockin and Whitchurch (Blackmere) barons. In fact the fines of 1299 are evidence that the king’s yeoman can have been no other than “heir of the body” of Maud de Walton, for if he had not been so, Middle would have passed to Elizabeth (living 1320) and her Welsh husband. That John of Middle in 1336 was on friendly terms with his kinsmen appears from his witnessing a grant done at Knockin Castle,[34] but in 1373 litigation resulted inequitably in Middle returning to the elder branch where it remained, notwithstanding an attempt in the following century to recover seisin.

        Roger le Strange (I) had two wives, the first being Maud (possibly daughter of Ralph Basset of Blore) and the second Joan, daughter and heir of Sir Oliver de Ingham, lord Ingham. Eyton (x, 263) makes Joan de Ingham the first wife, but that is clearly a mistake, since she survived and married Sir Miles de Stapleton, K.G. The inscription in Ingham Church (Norf.) reads:

        Priez pour les almes Monsieur Miles de Stapleton et Dame Johane sa femme, fille de Monsieur Oliver de Ingham . . fondeurs de ceste maison, qé Dieu de lour almes eit petie (Cotman, Norfolk Sepulchral Brasses.)

        Joan de Ingham was born circa 1319 (Inq. p.m. C., 18 Edw. III, 74, 8) and therefore could not have been the first wife since Sir Roger’s eldest son was born about 1327. Eyton (x, 263) mentions Maud . . . . as the second wife of Sir Roger living in 1349, and he has probably confused two ladies of the same name since Sir Roger le Strange, lord of Ellesmere, had also a wife Maud who survived and was certainly living in 1332, and is mentioned in 1345 and 1359 (Pat. R. 19 Edw. III, pt. 1, m. 23; 33 Edw. III, pt. 2, m. 23). Lady Joan was assigned dower in 1349.

        It is hoped that these short notes will be appreciated by the future genealogist of the families of Le Strange, and to other pedigree-makers provide a warning of the errors arising from duplication of the names of persons and places and a convincing illustration of the value of tracing the devolution of each property.

        [1] The publication of the late Mr. Hamon le Strange of Hunstanton.

        [2] Confused in Le Strange Records 179.

        [3] Jean Chenu, Arch, et Episc. Gall. Chron. Hist., 1621, p. 403.

        [4] Coll. De rebus Britannicis, ed. Hearne, I, 202. R. Holinshed, Chron. Of England, 1577, i. 2.

        [5] Brit. Mus., Reg. 12, c.xii. The Duke is given ten sons, Roger, Howel, Audoin, Urien, Theobald, Bertram, Amis, Guichard, Gerard and Guy. “Donqe repeyresent les dys freres on lur C chevalers à Bretaigne le Menure; mès Gwy, le puysné frere, remist en Engleterre; e conquist par coup d’espée meyntes beles terres, e si fust apeleé Gwy le Estraunge, et de ly vindrent tous les grantz seignurs de Engleterre qe ount le sournome de Estraunge.” This thirteenth-century account of the early genealogy was accepted by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald (who mistranslated dys ‘two’), and in 1675 published by Dugdale (Baronage of England, i. 663). The story was refuted in 1855 by the Rev. R. W. Eyton (The Antiquities of Shropshire, ii, 3; iii, 123ff), but is occasionally repeated in modern peerages and other works of reference.

        [6] Albert d’Aix (Aquensis), Historia Hierosolymitanae expeditionis, viii, 40, 42 (Migne, Pat. Lat. 166). The writer, himself a crusader, related that Bernard was governor of Longinias in Cilicie (Asia Minor) and in 1101 gave sanctuary there to William, count of Poictou, when pursued by the Mohammedans.

        [7] I have to rely upon a charter noticed by the Rev. Francis Blomfield (History of Norfolk, 1805, ix, 456, 458), namely a grant of the hundreds of Launditch and S. Greenhow and lands in Bittering, etc.

        [8] Siward is a common name, but Siward, the grandfather of Durand le Strange, may be Siward who occurs in Domesday Book (f. 135b) in Hunstanton (Smethden hundred), and (f. 136b) as holding lands in Bittering (Launditch hundred), both of which places came to the Le Stranges. There is also a Seward witness to the grant of Alan fitz Flaald (Reg. Castleacre, Harl. MS. 2110, f.20; Facs. in Le Strange Records, 6).

        [9] Cited above.

        [10] Liber Albus, f. 130, per J. H. Round, Calendar of Documents . . France.

        [11] Harl. MS. 2110, f.20. Facs. in Le Strange Records, 6.

        [12] Cur. Reg. R., 6 Ric. I, m.3. Harl. MS. 2110, f.28. Castleacre and Haghom cartularies, Liber rubeus, etc.

        [13] The proofs of this interesting connection are now published for the first time.

        [14] Pipe Rolls, 22-24 Hen. II. Salopeser’.

        [15] Cl.R., 18 Hen. III, m. 30.

        [16] Fin.R., 53 Hen. III, m.10.

        [17] Trans. Shrops. Arch. Soc. (2 Ser., iii, 68). A useful deed of “Johannes Extraneus quartus” refers to his ancestor Roland Extraneus (H. le S., p. 4).

        [18] Inq. p.m. c., 4 Edw. I, 14, 4.

        [19] Inq. p.m. c., 3 Edw. II, 16, 6.

        [20] Inq. p.m. c., 4 Edw. II, 20, 15.

        [21] Inq. p.m. c., 16 Edw. II, 79, 17.

        [22] Fin. R., 11 Edw. I, m. 25; Inq. p.m. c., 11 Edw. I, 29, 6.

        [23] Joan de Somery, a widow, retains the surname of her first husband, the general practise.

        [24] Maud’s tenure must have been by special arrangement. John le Strange (VI) was of age and heir of the body of Alianora (see below p. 6).

        [25] Alianora may well have been named after Queen Eleanor, she being an executrix of Sir Eble’s will.

        [26] John VII was son of John VI, son of John V, and therefore great-grandson of Sir Eble de Montz.

        [27] A second Eble de Montz died 1317-8, but his kinship, if any, to Eble (I) does not appear.

        [28] C1. R., 3 Edw. II., m. 19.

        [29] Plac. Abb., 190b.

        [30] The date of his death has not come to hand.

        [31] Pat. R., 11 Edw. II, pt. 2, m. 25d. Thomas de “Hastynges” and Matilda, his wife.

        [32] Nichols, Collectanea, Topographica et Genealogica, v. 106; T. C. Banks, Baronia Anglicana Concentrata, I, 420; Carthew, part I, 142.

        [33] i, 307a.

        [34] Hist. MS. Comm., 11th Rept. Pt. vii, 142.

        The complete title of this work is:

        Observations on the Le Stranges
        With Some Corrections of Prevalent Genealogical Errors
        BY
        C. L'ESTRANGE EWEN
        Author of “A History of Surnames,” “Witchcraft and Demonianism”
        “What Shakespere Signatures Reveal,” etc,
        C. L. EWEN
        31, MARINE DRIVE, PAICNTON, DEVON
        September 1946

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