John le Strange (II)

Constable of Montgomery Castle

Events

Date of Birth: probably about 1153.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Le Strange (p. 59) notes that John seems to have been at least 21 in 1179. He states (p. 82) that John must have been about 80 at his death.

Date of Death: late 1233 or early 1234.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Le Strange (p. 82). Lieberman (p. 96) gives 1223.

Relationships

Father: John le Strange (I).

This relationship is given by le Strange (p. 58) and by Lieberman (p. 96).

Mother: Hawise.

This relationship is given by le Strange (p. 58) and by Lieberman (p. 96).

Spouse: Amice la Fusche.

Le Strange (pp. 82-83) and Lieberman (p. 96) call her "Amicia". Cavell (p. 183-4) calls her "Amice la Fusche", noting that "in the early thirteenth century, John Lestrange gave the chapel of his own Leicestershire manor of Shangton, along with his wife's body in death, to the abbey of Lilleshall for his soul and those of his wife and their ancestors." In the Lilleshall cartulary, John's wife is named Amitia or Amicia.

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 le Strange.)

John le Strange (III) (about 1193 - 1269) married Lucia de Tregoz.

Hamon le Strange.

Margery le Strange married Ralph de Pichford.

Evidence

Le Strange (pp. 59 - 98) discusses surviving records.

References

Cavell, Emma. "The Burial of Noblewomen in Thirteenth-Century Shropshire" in Thirteenth Century England XI (2005).

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).

Rees, Una ed. The Cartulary of Lilleshall Abbey (Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society, 1997).