Elizabeth le Strange

Events

Date of Birth: about 1298.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Le Strange (p. 216) states that Elizabeth was alive and aged 22 in 1320.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: John le Strange (VI), lord of Knockin.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 5), citing Charles Evans. Most sources, for example Le Strange (p. 215 ff.) and Smith, make Elizabeth the daughter of John (V) le Strange.

Mother: Iseult.

The Complete Peerage (12:1:353) gives Iseult as John VI’s wife.

Spouse: Gruffudd ap Madog ap Gruffudd Fychan. Married 8 July 1304.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 5), and given by Lloyd (p. 12), by Davies (p. 140), and by Smith. The date is given by Lloyd (p. 12).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Bartrum.)

Gruffudd Fychan married Elen ferch Thomas ap Llywelyn.

Isabel married Gronwy ap Gruffudd.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 4” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Davies, R.R. The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr. (Oxford U.P., 1995).

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

Lloyd, J.E. Owen Glendower (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1931).

Smith, Llinos, ‘Glyn Dŵr , Owain (c.1359–c.1416)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10816, accessed 11 May 2014]