Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: about November 1310.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Bridgeman (p. 48) and by Pryce (p. 44). Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 30) and Le Strange (p. 153) give 1310. The writ of diem clausit extremum was issued on 22 November (CIPM Edward II, volume 5, no. 269).
Relationships
Father: John le Strange (III).
This relationship is given by Le Strange (p. 140) and by Lieberman (p. 97).
Mother: Lucia Tregoz.
This relationship is given by Le Strange (p. 140) and by Lieberman (p. 97).
Spouse: Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn ab Owain Cyfeiliog. Married before February 1242.
This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 30), and given by Lieberman (p. 97), by Cavell (p. 68), by Morgan (p. 10), and by Pierce. Eyton (10:274) gives a fragment of a deed in support: “Hawise promisit per assensum mariti sui quod cum frater suus, Dominus Hamo Extraneus, rediret a Terrȃ Sanctȃ licet ei intrare Manerium de Strattone in comitatu Salop; de consensu mariti sui Domini Griffini. Testibus, --Dominus Rogero Extraneo, Roberto fratre suo, Odone de Hodnet.” Cawley cites the Calendar of the Charter Rolls (Henry III, 1:266). Bridgeman (p. 24 fn 1 and ff.) gives further support.
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.)
John.
Owain de la Pole (died 1293) married Joan, daughter of Robert Corbet of Moreton.
William de la Pole.
Dafydd married Elen ferch Hywel.
Mabli (Margaret) (1251-1315) married Fulk FitzWarin V.
Llywelyn (died 1294) married Margred ferch Maredudd Gôch; married Sibyl, widow of Grimbold Pauncefot.
References
Bartrum, Peter C., “Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 30” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.
Bridgeman, G.T.O. “The Princes of Upper Powys” in Collections Historical and Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire (Powys-Land Club: London, 1868).
Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol. I, Henry III 1226-1257 (London, 1903).
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume V. Edward II. (London, 1908).
Cavell, Emma. "Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier: The Shropshire Evidence: The Rees Davies Prize Essay" in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Sixth Series, Vol. 17 (2007), pp. 57-82.
Cawley, Charles. “HAWISE” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Eyton, R.W. Antiquities of Shropshire Volume 10 (London, 1860).
Le Strange, Hamon. Le Strange Records: A Chronicle of the Early Le Stranges (London:1916).
Lieberman, Max. The Medieval March of Wales (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Morgan, R. “The Barony of Powys, 1275-1360” in The Welsh History Review 10 (1980).
Pryce, Huw. The Acts of the Welsh Rulers 1120 - 1283 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005)