Sister of Sir Thomas of Master William de Genellestane

  General Notes:

The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, Pedigree titled "The Connection of the Families of Strickland, Washington and Carleton," names the wife os Sir Robert de Strickland to be the sister of Sir Thomas Master William de Genellestand. ⁹¹⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁰
The identity of Sir Robert de Strickland's wife can be established by a deed in the muniment room at Balliol College, Oxford, dated at "Burgh" (Brough, near Appleby) on the Feast of the Assumption of our Lady (25 Aug) 1271. This document records an agreement then made between "Sire Johan de Balyels" (Sir John de Balliol, of Barnard Castle, co. Durham) and "Sire Thomas de Musgrave" (of Great Musgrave, co. Westmorland) concerning the imprisonment at Appleby by the said Sir Thomas of Master William de Genellestand and of "la Dame de Stirkeland, sa sore." Sir Thomas agreed to reimburse Master William and his sier, the Lady of Strickland, for the losses which their imprisonment had cost them in money and goods, as well as to present fiive hundred shillings and two tuns of good wine to Sir John de "Balyels:" and he further secured as pledges Sir John de Morville, Sir Thomas de Helbeck, Sir Henry de Staveley, and Sir Thomas de Hasting, and as mainpernors Sir Peter de Brus and Sir Roger de Lancaster.

The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 37

Sister married Sir Robert de Strickland Knight, son of Robert de Strickland and Beatrice de Cotesford.⁹¹⁰ (Sir Robert de Strickland Knight died in 1278 in Kendal Castle, Westmorland, England ⁹¹⁰.)