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John Le Strange VII
- Preferred Name: John Le Strange VII[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
- Alternate Name: John le Strange
- Gender: M
- LdsSealingToParents: 6 JAN 1993 with note: GEDCOM data
- Death: 12 MAY 1361 in Blakemere, Herefordshire, England at LATI: N2.065 LONG: E2.9318 with note: Blakemere, Weobley, Herefordshire, England
- LdsEndowment: 19 MAY 1938 with note: GEDCOM data
- Birth: ABT APR 1332 in Shropshire, England at LATI: N2.6431 LONG: E2.7136
- Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 1st Lord Strange of Blackmere
- Occupation: Member of Parliament1360
- LdsBaptism: 12 AUG 1936 with note: GEDCOM data
- Title (Nobility): 1349 with note: Description: 4th Baron Strange of Blackmere (succeeded his brother Fulk upon his death)
- FSID: 9Z8F-399
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
John Lestrange, 1st Lord Strange (of Blackmere) was born circa 1332 at Whitchurch, Hampshire, England. He was the son of John Lestrange, 2nd Lord Strange (of Blackmere) and Ankaret Boteler.
He married Lady Mary FitzAlan, daughter of Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd/9th Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne.
He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Shropshire in 1360.
He was created 1st Lord Strange, of Blackmere [England by writ] on 3 April 1360.
He died on 12 May 1361.
Children of John Lestrange, 1st Lord Strange (of Blackmere) and Lady Mary FitzAlan
1. John Lestrange, 2nd Lord Strange (of Blackmere) b. c 1353, d. 3 Aug 1375
2. Ankaret Lestrange, Baroness Strange (of Blackmere) b. c 1361, d. 1 Jun 1413
http://www.thepeerage.com/p2359.htm#i23585
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Documentary sources indicate that a manor house belonging to the Le Strange family existed here in the 12th century. It passed to the Talbots in the 14th century, and in 1383 was the birthplace of John Talbot, the first Earl of Shrewsbury. The Talbot family sold the manor in 1590 and by the end of the following century the house was in ruins. Source is:
www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/3059.html
Blackmere was a 12th Century Manor in Whitchurch, Shropshire the seat of Le Strange of Blackmere. Source is Le Strange Records, Pedigree No. VIII - Le Strange of Blackmere.
The plague takes John and his mother in 1361
The plague in Wales and the Marches were as pitiless as elsewhere. At Whitchurch, an inquest into the death of one John le Strange revealed that John had died on 20th August 1349. His oldest son, Fulk
=== My PAF Notes ===
from thepeerage.com, 4/2009:
John Lestrange, 4th Lord Strange (of Blackmere)1
M, #23585, b. circa 1332, d. 12 May 1361
John Lestrange, 4th Lord Strange (of Blackmere)|b. c 1332\nd. 12 May 1361|p2359.htm#i23585|John Lestrange, 2nd Lord Strange (of Blackmere)|b. c 1306\nd. 21 Jul 1349|p23461.htm#i234606||||||||||||||||
Last Edited=6 Nov 2008
John Lestrange, 4th Lord Strange (of Blackmere) was born circa 1332 at Whitchurch, Hampshire, England .2 He was the son of John Lestrange, 2nd Lord Strange (of Blackmere) .2 He married Mary FitzAlan , daughter of Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne .1 He died on 12 May 1361.3
John Lestrange, 4th Lord Strange (of Blackmere) gained the title of 4th Lord Strange, of Blackmere.1 He was created 1st Lord Lestrange in 1360.
Child of John Lestrange, 4th Lord Strange (of Blackmere)
Elizabeth Lestrange d. 23 Aug 1383
Children of John Lestrange, 4th Lord Strange (of Blackmere) and Mary FitzAlan
Ankaret Lestrange + d. c 1413
John Lestrange, 5th Lord Strange (of Blackmere) b. c 13503
Citations
[S6 ] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 244. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S6 ] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XII/1, page 343.
[S6 ] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XII/1, page 344.
=== Sources: A Greene Family History; A. Roo ===
Sources: A Greene Family History; A. Roots and Colket. Fourth Baron Strange of Blackmere. Summoned to Parliament, 1360. SOURCES: 1. Ancestral File (AFN:84ZP-PB). This individual has the following other parents in the AncestralFile: John /LE STRANGE/ (AFN:HMZP-PB) and Eleanor /GIFFORD/(AFN:HMZP-QH)
=== !BIRTH: from The Complet Peerage !MARRIA ===
!BIRTH: from The Complet Peerage !MARRIAGE: from The Complet Peerage !DEATH: from The Complet Peerage
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He was 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere - was summoned to Parliament 1360. His age was 17 in 1349 This family line is hard to find.
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=== Source: Weis, Sheppard, Beal, The Magna ===
Source: Weis, Sheppard, Beal, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 5th Ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, [1999], 34-7 p. 44.
=== SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.26, 48; BURKE'S PEERAGES (GS NUMBER 942 D22BUG); ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
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=== !SOURCE: Plantagenet Ancestry p 263. 1st ===
!SOURCE: Plantagenet Ancestry p 263. 1st Baron Strange of Blackmere.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Fulk Le Strange V, b. ABT 1267 in Longnor, Shropshire, England d. 23 JAN 1324 in Blakemere, Herefordshire, England
Mother: Elizabeth Stafford, b. in Longnor, Shropshire, England d. 7 AUG 1347
Family 1: Mary FitzAlan, b. ABT 1325 in Sussex, England d. 29 AUG 1396 in Blackmere, Shropshire, England
- m. BEF 1354 in Shropshire, England
- Ankaret Le Strange, b. APR 1361 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England d. 1 JUN 1413 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
Sources:
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: John le Strange 4th Baron le Strange -
Author: Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Ed {1999}, Page number: 34-7
Note: Source Media Type: Book
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741136
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: John le Strange 4th Baron le Strange -
Author: Ancestral Roots of Certain Americian Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr, Page number: 8-32
Note: Source Media Type: Book
- Title: Ancestral File (R)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
Note: [PFT:AQ]
[S:Titl] Ancestral File (R)
[S:Auth] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
[S:Publ] Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
[R:Name] Family History Library
[R:Addr] 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
[/PFT]
- Title: John L'Estrange, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:73PS-TKZM : 15 June 2022), John L'Estrange, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 192787632, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:73PS-TKZM;
Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192787632/john-l'estrange
John L'Estrange
BIRTH 1332
DEATH 12 May 1361 (aged 28–29)
BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
MEMORIAL ID 192787632
4th Baron Strange of Blackmere (in Whitchurch).
Spouse: Mary d'Arundel L'Estrange (unknown–1396)
Father: John L'Estrange (unknown–1349)
- Title: Sir John le Strange, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere in Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
Author: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p370.htm#i11094 index to pedigrees
Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p370.htm#i11094;
Note: Sir John le Strange, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]
Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
M, #11094, b. circa 19 April 1332, d. 12 May 1361
Father Sir John le Strange, 2nd Lord Strange of Blackmere [15,16,17] b. 25 Jan 1306, d. 21 Jul 1349
Mother Ankaret le Boteler [15,16,17] d. 8 Oct 1361
Sir John le Strange, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere was born circa 19 April 1332 at Whitchurch, Blackmere, Shropshire, England. [10] He married Mary FitzAlan, daughter of Sir Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl Arundel, Chief Justice of North & South Wales and Alice de Warren, before 1354; They had 1 son (John, 5th Lord Strange) and one daughter (Ankaret, wife of Sir Richard, 4th Lord Talbot, & of Sir Thomas Neville, Lord Furnival). [2,4,6,7,8,10,12,13,14] Sir John le Strange, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere died on 12 May 1361 at of Braddock, Sutton Maddock, Corfham in Diddlebury, Wrockwardine & Cheswardine, Shropshire, England. [2,4,10]
Family: Mary FitzAlan d. 29 Aug 1396
Children:
Sir John le Strange, 5th Baron Strange of Blackmere+ [18,4,10] b. c 1353, d. 3 Aug 1375
Agnes Strange+ b. c 1359
Ankaret le Strange+ [2,19,20,3,4,5,7,8,9,21,11,13,14] b. c 1361, d. 1 Jun 1413
Citations:
1. [S2886] Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, by F. L. Weis, 4th Ed., p. 39; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 91; Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 55.
2. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 110.
3. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 33.
4. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 209-210.
5. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 547.
6. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 185.
7. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 166-167.
8. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 258-259.
9. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 152-153.
10. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 374.
11. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 332.
12. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 605.
13. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 52.
14. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 117-118.
15. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 109-110.
16. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 208.
17. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 373.
18. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 144-145.
19. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 702-704.
20. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 737.
21. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 374-375.
- Title: Rober le Strange (1232-1276), Le Strange Records: A Chroncile of the Early le Stranges of Norfolk and the Marches of Wales
Author: Le Strange Records: A Chroncile of the Early le Stranges of Norfolk and the Marches of Wales, Hamon le Strange, M.A., F.S.A., Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1916
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/lestrangerecords00lestuoft/page/346/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Stanley;
Note: page 172 " The wife of Robert le Strange was Alianora, or Eleanor, second daughter and co-heiress of William de Whitchurch [de Albo Monasterio], from whom he ultimately acquired and transmitted to his descendants a considerable inheritance ; William, who died before June n, 1260, left four daughters ; the eldest, Berta, was an imbecile, and died in 1281"
page 206 "This Eleanor (the daughter and co-heir of William de Blancminster, or Whit- church) was relict of Robert le Strange, Lord in her right of Blackmere, who died in 1276.
page 386 Index Strange, Robert le (1266-1276), 98, 153, 170-175, 288, 289, 360
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: John le Strange 4th Baron le Strange -
Author: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley {1999}, Page number: 2506
Note: Source Media Type: Book
- Title: visitation of oxford , p 16 . quarterly shows Robert throckmorton married teh daughter of Maurice Lord Berkeley
Author: harlien, visitation of oxford , p 16 . quarterly shows Robert throckmorton married teh daughter of Maurice Lord Berkeley.
Note: [PFT:AQ]
[S:Titl] visitation of oxford , p 16 . quarterly shows Robert throckmorton married teh daughter of Maurice Lord Berkeley
[S:Auth] harlien
[/PFT]
- Title: visitation of oxford , p 16 . quarterly shows Robert throckmorton married teh daughter o f Maurice Lord Berkeley
Author: harlien, visitation of oxford , p 16 . quarterly shows Robert throckmorton married teh daughter o f Maurice Lord Berkeley.
Note: [PFT:AQ]
[S:Titl] visitation of oxford , p 16 . quarterly shows Robert throckmorton married teh daughter o f Maurice Lord Berkeley
[S:Auth] harlien
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