Eleanor de Blanchminster

Events

Date of Birth: before 1250.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Eleanor was aged 30 years and more in 9 Edward I, according to her sister Bertreya’s inquisition post mortem. (CIPM no. 387)

Date of Death: between 10 February 1301 and June 1306.

Place of Death: unknown.

The dates are given by Eyton (p. 24). Eleanor was buried at High Ercall, Shropshire.

Relationships

Father: William de Blanchminster.

This relationship is given by le Strange (p. 172), by Eyton (pp. 21-23) and by the Complete Peerage (7:347).

Mother: Eve FitzWarin.

The marriage between Eva FitzWarin and the lord of Blanchminster is given in the proto-romance of Fulk FitzWarin. See Eva’s page for more evidence.

Spouse: Robert le Strange.

This relationship is given by le Strange (p. 172) and by the Complete Peerage (7:347, 12a:341).

Spouse: Bevis de Knovill. Married about 1276.

This relationship is given by Eyton (p. 23) and by the Complete Peerage (7:347).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

John le Strange (about 1266 - 1289)

Fulke le Strange, lord Strange of Blakemere (1267 - 1324) married Eleanor Giffard.

Robert le Strange

Evidence

from the Calendar of Fine Rolls (v. 1, pp. 127-8):

1280. June 3. Westminster.

[Ratification] of the demise by [Ralph de Sanwyco, the king’s steward] to Eleanor, late the wife of Robert le Strange, of a fourth part of the manor of Whitchurch, co. Salop, late of William de Albo Monasterio, which fell to the pourparty of Bertrada, daughter and one of the heirs of the said William, and is in the king’s hand because she is of unsound mind; to hold at the king’s will at the rent of 17l. 12s. a year.

[Also recorded in the Calendar of Patent Rolls 1272-1281 p. 375.]

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem (Edward I, Vol. 2; 1904)

Eyton, R.W. Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. X. (1860).

“Gesta Fulconis Filii Warini” in Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores (Joseph Stevenson ed.) (London, 1879).

Cokayne, G.E. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant. Vol. 7 (1929)

Le Strange, Hamon. Le Strange Records: A Chronicle of the Early Le Stranges. (London:1916).