Henry Strangeways

   Other names for Henry were Henry Strangewaies and Henry Strangways.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁴³
~Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. II, "Strangeways's Pedigree," p. 161, Henry Strangways is given as the father of James Strangways, married to Joan, Daughter of Nicholas Orells, who in turn has a daughter named Isabella who is married to Sir Peter Gerard. Thomas Strangways, who is most often given as Isabella's father, is the brother of James. Thomas is also given as married to katherine, widow of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk.

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁴⁵
Henry Strangeways had a son named Thomas, who married into the great northern clasn of Neville, being the second husband of Katherine, daughter of Ralph Neville, first earl of Westmorland, by his second wife, Joan, the ligitimated daughter of John of Guant and Katherine Swynford. Katherine's first husband was John Mowbray, duke of Norfolk who died in Oct 1432. Henry Strangeway's other children seem all to have married into families of Lancashire and Cheshire, including the families of Orell, Worsley, Bulkeley and Wooto. His son James married Joan, daughter of Nicholas Orell, and James the Speaker was one of the children of this Union.

~Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England, Volume II, p. 280