Mabel de Beetham

   Another name for Mabel was Mabel de Betham.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:32, Sir Thomas Strickland married Mabel de Beethom and were parents to Walter de Strickland. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁰⁵
Sir Thomas de Stirkeland, knight son and heir of Walter married Mabel, daughter of Sir John de Bethom in 1405, in the fifthe year of King Henry the Sixth he agreed that his son should marry Douce, daughter of Nicholas de Croft. Sir Thomas held amongst his estates a third part of a knight's fee of Thomas Lumley, and represented Westmorland in Parliament.

Sir Thomas bore the first and most honored of the English Standards at the Battle of Agincourt, the banner of St. George. He made a will before he went to battle in France about twenty-four years before his death. He was at the siege Harfleur and at the taking of the City of Rouen, as well as attending the Coronation of King Henry the Sixth.

~Sizergh Castle, Westmoreland & the Strickland Family, pp. 17-18

Mabel married Sir Thomas de Strickland Knight, son of Sir Walter de Strickland Knight and Margaret de Lathom, in Feb 1405 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England ¹⁶⁰.^,1405 (Sir Thomas de Strickland Knight was born in Sizergh Castle, Kendal, Westmorland, England and died on 30 Jul 1455 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England ¹⁶⁰.)