Sir Thomas de Strickland Knight

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:30, Sir Thomas de Strickland, son of Sir Walter de Strickland, m. Cecily de Welles, daughter of Sir Robert de Welles. Father of Sir Walter Strickland. ¹⁶⁰

~Pedigree Chart from Sizergh Castle, p.6, Sir Tomas de Strickland married to Cecilia de Welles & their children are listed as St Walter de Strickland married to Isabella de Olney and Katherine Strickland marred to John de Ross. ¹⁴⁰⁵

~The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 45, footnote 54, "Roger's (Lord Clifford of Appleby) half-sister, Cecily de Welles, was married in 1322/3 to Thomas, son and heir of Sir Walter Strickland. ⁹¹⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Records and Notes. ⁸⁵⁹
1350 Thomas de Stirkeland, chivaler, going on the king's service to Ireland, nominates attorneys for one year [Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1350, p. 460].

1361 Licence, for good service done in France, for Thomas de Stirkeland to impark 300 acres by estimation of his lands and woods in Helsyngton, Levenes and Hackethorpe [Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1361, p. 551].

1361 Thomas de Stirkeland, knt., Roland de Thornburgh &c. on the commission of the peace for co. Westmorland [Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1361- 64, p. 65].

~Records relating to the Barony of Kendale: Volume I, pp. 130-166.

• Background Information. ⁸²¹
Katherine de Strickland, daughter of Sir Thomas de Strickland, Knight, of Sizergh, Westmorland, by Cecily, daughter of Sir Robert de Welles, Knight, married Sir John de Roos, Knight, of Kirkby-Kendal, Westmorland, son and heir apparent of Sir Thomas de Roos, Knight and ________ de Preston, daughter of Sir John de Preston, Knight.

~Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 643

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁰⁵
Sir Thomas de Strickland, knight, married Cecilia de Welles, daughter of Robert de Welles by Maud de Clare, heiress of Thomas de Clare and widow of Robert Lord Clifford. Thomas de Clare was the son of Richard 6^th Earl of Hertford. In the 31^st year of Edward III, Roger Lord de Clifford assigned to Sir Thomas Strickland and to Hugh Dela-Course, in trust, all his lands in England and Ireland and also the reversion of the lands, of which his mother Isaella de Berkeley, Lady Clifford was possed.

Sir Thomas made a will in 1376. His daughter Catherine married John de Ross of Kendal Castle, and assigned to her father the "Wardship" and "Marriage" of her daughter Elizabeth de Ross. This Elizabeth de Ross was married to William del Parr, knight of Kendal Castle.

Sir Thomas Strickland entered into an agreement with Ranolph de Darce, Lord of Gilsland, that his son and heir Walter should marry Margaret de Lathom. Sir Thomas died in the last year of the reign of Edward the Third.

~Sizergh Castle, Westmoreland & the Strickland Family, p. 17

Thomas married Cecilia de Welles, daughter of Sir Robert de Welles Knight, Baron on Welles and Maud de Clare ^160,248.^,1405 (Cecilia de Welles was born about 1315 in Well, Lincholnshire, England.)