Lord of Knockin
Events
Date of Birth: about 1253.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The Complete Peerage (12:1:352) states that John was aged 22 and more at his father’s death.
Date of Death: on or before 8 August 1309.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (12:1:353).
Relationships
Father: John le Strange (IV).
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12:1:352) and by Lieberman (p. 97).
Mother: Joan de Somery.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12:1:352) and by Lieberman (p. 97).
Spouse: Eleanor, daughter of Eble de Montz, constable of Windsor Castle.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12:1:352, 353, as modified by volume 14; cited in Some Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage.)
Spouse: Maud.
Sources disagree about the identity of Maud. Le Strange (p. 323) and Lieberman (p. 97) make her the daughter of Roger d’Eiville of Walton d’Eiville, Warwickshire. Ewen and The Complete Peerage (12:1:352, 353) states that Maud's father is John de Walton of Walton Deiville, Warwickshire.
Children (by Alienore):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Some Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage gives reasons why the mother should be considered Alienore.)
John le Strange (VI) (about 1282 - on or before 6 February 1310/11) married Iseult.
Hamon le Strange (died about November 1317) married Margaret, daughter of Ralph Vernon of Moltram, Cheshire.
Ebles le Strange (died 8 September 1335) married Alice de Lacy.
Children (by Maud):
John le Strange of Walton.
Evidence
John’s inquisition post mortem is abstracted in CIPM 5 no 211.
References
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume 5, Edward II, (H.M. Stationery Office, 1908).
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).
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).
Some Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage. [Web. Accessed 10 October 2016]