John le Strange of Ness and Cheswardine, and Shropshire

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
John le Strange I, son and heir. In 1158 he had a grant from the King of land to the value of 7£. 10s. yearly in Ness, Salop; in 1163-64 his brother Hamon's land in Cheswardine had passed to him. In 1166 he was returned in William Fitz Alan's carta under Shropshire as holding 1 knight's fee of his Norfolk fee, and in his own carta as holding in chief in Shropshire Ness and Cheswardine by service of 1½ knights. In 1168-69 he had a grant from the King of pasture in Staffs. Before 1176 he gave the churches of Hunstanton and Cheswardine to Haughmond Abbey, having previously given to the Abbey a ½ virgate in Webscott. In 1171 he had a grant to pay the men serving in the March of Wales. He married Hawise. He was dead before Michaelmas, 1178.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. XIIA, pp. 348-349

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• Background Information. ⁸⁰²
John le Strange held 5 knights' fees in Hunstanston and elsewhere in Norfolk, under William de Albini Pincerna, 2nd. One of the estates of John le Strange held was part of Edgefield, in the Hundred of Holt, Norfolk. The deed from the gift by John of the estate of Edgefield to the Binham Priory proves the ancestry of John le Strange. This deed also mentions that his mother was named Matilda. This transaction took place sometimes between 1107 and 1135.

Between the years 1172 and 1177, John le Strange gave the Church of St. Mary of Hunstanston to the Shropshire Abbey of Haughmond. This grant was attested by Andrew, Abbot of Wigmore, by the Abbot of Builwas and by John le Strange, a Conon, and was confirmed by King Henry II about 1176 and by John, bishop of Norwich, in a dated manifesto of 1178.

Only one of John le Strange's Charters mentions the name of his wife, Hawise. The Charter was a grant to Haghmon Abbey. It is likely that he made this grant on the death of his wife, which shortly preceded his own death.

~Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. 10, pgs. 265-266

• Background Information. ⁹³⁹
Simon de Perepunt on be have of John L'Estrange sues Ralph de Plaiz for land at, held by the said Ralph for warranting to the monks of Theford on the gound that it descended through Reginals le Brun uncle of John the alien father of the said John and as that which Hugh de Plaiz gave with Helewise his daughter when she married Ralph son of Herlewin and after that Reginald le Brun son of the said Ralph and Helewise which Ralph le Brun gave in time of Henry I. to the monks of Tieford in almoign. Afterwards Martin prior of Tieford agrees to renounce his rights in one carucate of land in Bernham in favor of John L'Estrange the latter giving in exchange 20s worth of land in Totenton. Abbr. of Pl., 6 Richard I. 3.

~County of Suffolk: Its History as Disclosed by Existing Records and Other Documents , p. 108

John married Hawise.⁸⁰²