Life History

Notes

• John le Strange
  Birth abt 1352 England, Shropshire, Knockyn
  Occupation 6th Baron of Strange 1382-1397
  Death 7/28/1397
  Aged: 45.6 years
  Parents:
  Roger Strange abt 1326 -- 8/23/1382
  Aline FitzAlan abt 1325 -- 1/20/1385
  Spouse:
  Maud de Mohun
  Birth abt 1357 England, Somerset, Dunster Castle
  Death 9/20/1400
  --  Our Family Tree, http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/John-le-Strange/p55982, drawing on
  Source http://www.ls.u-net.com/le_Strange/Seat-H2.htm
  
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  LE STRANGE OF KNOCKIN 337
  
  ... family, had now reverted to the elder line, and had been assigned to the Lady Aleyne as a dower house.
  
  By a charter dated July 8, 1385, John le Strange, lord of Knockin, granted to Richard Earl of Arundel and Surrey, to Aleyne le Strange his mother, and to Ebulo le Strange, clerk, his brother, the manor of Holborn, in the suburb of London, in fee, with remainder to the heirs of Alice. 1 He was summoned to Parliament from August 20, 1283, to July 18, 1397. He was in the garrison of Berwick, and served in the Scotch wars. 2 The inquisition on the death of John le Strange shows that he died on July 28, 1397, 3 and that on his wife, Maud de Mohun, shows that she survived for three years, and died on September 20, 1400. 4
  
  Mention has already been made of two brothers of John, sixth Lord Strange of Knockin, viz. Roger, who had a grant of Edgeware for life, 5 and Eubulo, who was in Holy Orders. 6 The latter was presented to the rectory of Wistanstow, Salop, c. 1373, and held it until August 6, 1385; 7 soon after we find him as rector of Gresford, in the modern county of Denbigh, then in the March of Bromfield, which had passed from the Warennes to the fitz Alans. A papal letter of Boniface IX, dated from Rome on April 28, 1391, conveyed the following dispensation:
  
  To Eubulo Strange, rector of Gresford in the diocese of St. Asaph. Dispensation to him, who is of a royal race, has for some years studied civil law, and holds also the free chapel of  Hempton, in the Diocese of Lichfield, and a canonry and prebend of Lincoln, value, together with his church, 150 marks; on the petition also of King Richard, who says he is his kinsman, to hold one other benefice without cure, even a major elective dignity with cure in a cathedral, and to exchange it and his said church as often as he please, for two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. 8
  
  I am indebted to Professor Tout for pointing out to me the royal descent of Eubulo, which I had been unable to trace. He writes to me the royal blood was very indirect and not very royal, but a certain distant kinship to the royal house came from ...
  
  1 Lond. and Middlesex Arch. Trans., i. 124. 2 Complete Peerage, vii. 274.
  3 C.P.R., 1476-1485, p. 45. * Chancery Inq. p.m., Hen. IV, File 43, No. 27.
  6 Supra, p. 332. 6 Ibid., p. 334.  Eyton, xi. 364.
  8 Cal. Pap. Let., 1362, 1404, iv. 357.
  --  Le Strange, Records of early family of Norfolk and the March of Wales, 1100-1310, , New York:  Longmans, Green, 1916,  p 337, courtesy of MyHeritage, from Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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Sources

• 1. Our Family Tree
• 2. Le Strange Website - No Longer Online
  • Descent, http://www.ls.u-net.com/le_Strange/Seat-H2.htm
• 3. MyHeritage.com
• 4. Le Strange Family Genealogy -- TudorPlace
• 5. GeneaNet
  • Angel Streur, GeneaNet genealogy, http://gw.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=dragonladys&lang=en&n=N&v=Le%20Strange (no longer online)