Fulk le Stange

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Personal and Family Information
Events
Notes

Personal and Family Information

Fulk was born about 1267 in Shropshire, England, the son of unknown parents.

He died before 23 JAN 1324 in France.

His wife was Eleanor Giffard. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was John (1306-1349).

Events

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Birth

ABT 1267

Place:

Shropshire, England

Death

BEF 23 JAN 1324

Place:

France

Notes

Note 1

!Source: Fulk le Strange https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Strange-212

Born about 1267 [uncertain] in Shropshire, England [uncertain]

Died before 23 Jan 1324 before about age 57 in France [uncertain]

Fulk "1st Lord Strange of Blackmere" le Strange formerly Strange

Son of Robert le Strange and Eleanor de Knovill

Brother of John le Strange

Husband of Eleanor le Strange — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Father of Unknown le Strange, John le Strange, Elizabeth Corbet, Hamon le Strange, Fulk le Strange and Maude Cornwall

Biography

Fulk le Strange was a younger son of Robert le Strange and Eleanor, daughter of William Blancminster.[1][2][3]

His father had died by 1276. Writ of 13 September, 4 Edw. I. [1276]:[4]

Writ on the complaint of Fulk son of the said Robert [le Estraunge alias Extraneus] that the escheator had taken the manor of Sutton Madok [Shropshire], whereof the said Robert had enfeoffed him, into the king's hand.

2 October 1276: To the sheriff of Salop, escheator in the same county. Order to cause Fulk son of Robert le Estraunge, tenant in chief, to have again seisin of the manor of Sutton Maddok, together with eveything received thence since it was taken into the king's hands, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Robert long before his death enfeoffed Fulk of the manor, which was taken into the king's hands by reason of Robert's death ...[5]

Fulk's elder brother John inherited from their father.[1] However, John died in 1289, with Fulk as heir.[6] Hence, Fulk was born c 1267.

On 16 July 1289 it was ordered that Fulk should have his brother's lands on the condition of doing homage to the king when Edward I was next in England.[1]

Marriage and Children

He married Eleanor, daughter of John Giffard of Brimsfield.[1][2][3][7][8]

Children:

John le Strange, 2nd Baron Blackmere [1][8][9][10]

Hamon le Strange[10]

Fulk le Strange [10][11][12][13][14][15]

Elizabeth le Strange [16]

[uncertain] Maud le Strange [3][17]

[uncertain] daughter [18]

1323: "To Robert Corbet, lord of the town of Morton in the Diocese of Litchfield and Elizabeth daughter of Fulke le Strange, seneschal of the Duchy of Acquitaine dispensation to remain in marriage which they contracted in ignorance that they were related in the 4th degree, and declaring their present and future offspring legitimate."[19]

Career

1292: The Jurors of Brimstree Hundred [Shropshire] reported as follows. — "Fulco le Strange holds Sutton, which is worth £10, by Serjeantry, viz. by finding four foot-soldiers to the ward of Montgomery for fifteen days at his own cost, and he owes suit to the Hundred every three weeks." And Fulk came forward and said that the Manor had been in the King's custody till three years since, when the King restored it to him ...[2]

In 1294 he was recorded as going to Gascony.[1]

From March 1298 until April 1323 he was summoned for service against the Scots.[1]

In February 1300/1 he had his seal appended to the Baron's letter to the Pope as "Fulco Lestrange dominus de Corfham".[1]

His mother Eleanor must have died by 12 June 1306 when a fine was levied whereby Robert de Bracy and Matilda his wife allow their gift of one-third of the Manor of Whitchirche-Warrene to Fulco le Estraunge and his wife Alianore . The latter restore the premises to the Grantors for their lives, with reversion to Fulco and Alianore and the heirs of Fulco.[20]

He was summoned to Parliament by writ directed "Fulconi Lestrange," whereby he is held to have become Lord Strange, on 4 March 1308/9.[1]

In 1312 he was an adherent of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and in 1315 he was pardoned some debts due from his uncle Hamon for service in Gascony.[1]

He was appointed Seneschal of Aquitaine in 1322, and the same year he was licensed to crenellate his dwelling-place of Whitchurch, Shropshire.[1]

25 April 1322:[10] A deed by which Fulco Lestrange, Lord of Whiteminster, gave to Fulco Lestrange his son, his Manor of Longenolre. If Fulco should die without heirs the premises were to remain to Hamo the Grantor's son.

Death and IPM

He died shortly before 23 January 1323/1324.[1][9]

His wife pre-deceased him.[1]

The Inquisition Post Mortem of Fulk le Strange followed a Writ of 23 January, 17 Edward II [1323/1324].[9] He had held lands in the counties of Southampton [Hampshire], Salop [Shropshire] and Nottingham. John his son, aged 18, was his next heir.

Research Notes

According to Medieval Lands[21], an Ebles le Strange was a son of a John le Strange. Ebles married Eleanor, daughter of John Giffard. An error?

Extract from Magna Carta Ancestry?[22] He inherited Whitchurch from his mother Eleanor; he served with credit as a young man in Gascony in 1294, and also during all the Scottish campaigns of Edward I. Though not summoned to the Parliament held at Lincoln in 1301, his name as Lord of Corfham appears among those of the barons who sealed the letter to the Pope, and he was one of the three le Strange knights who were present at the tournament in 1309. In that year he was summoned to Parliament under the style of Lord Strange of Blackmere, and the rolls for the next fifteen years are full of writs directed to him for civil and military employments. In the reign of Edward II Fulk was among the adherents of the Earl of Lancaster, and received a pardon for the part which he had taken against Gaveston and the King's friends. Like most of the Marchers, he espoused the policy of the lords ordainers, and on several occasions he appears to have evaded compliance with the royal writs requiring him to perform active service against the Scots. In 1321 he changed sides, like most of the Marcher lords, on account of their fear of Despencer's encroachments, and he joined the association formed by them to drive the Despencers out of the kingdom. Apparently he fought on the King's side at the battle of Boroughbridge, which resulted in the capture and execution of Lancaster. These services, and his early experiences in Gascony, procured for him in 1322 the appointment to the important office of Seneschal of Aquitaine, and he administered that province for upwards of a year, until stricken down there by illness from which he never recovered; he probably died in France early in 1324.He was field commander of the forces of Edward I and Edward II in Scotland and France, and Sénéschal of the Duchy of Aquitaine.

Sources

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↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. Vol. VI. 10-20 Edward II: 1316-1327. HMSO, 1910, p 309 No. 516 Inquisition Post Mortem of Fulk Lestraunge Internet Archive.

↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Eyton, R W. Antiquities of Shropshire. Vol. VI, 1858, pp 64-66 Internet Archive.

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↑ A. E. Stamp, J. B. W. Chapman, Cyril Flower, M. C. B. Dawes and L. C. Hector, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 240', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 14, Edward III , pp. 69-84. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol14/pp69-84 Inquisition Post Mortem of Margaret, late the wife of Hamon le Strange of Cheswardyn, knight. Item 77.

↑ Acton, Edward of Longnor, Salop. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 HOP.

↑ Notes and Queries. Vol. 199, 1954, p 98.

↑ Complete Peerage. Vol. XIV Addenda and Corrigenda, 1998, p 595.

↑ Corbet, Sir Roger , of Moreton Corbet, Salop. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 HOP.

↑ Cornwall, Sir John , of Kinlet, Salop. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 HOP.

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↑ 'Regesta 74: 1322-1323', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 2, 1305-1342, pp. 225-230. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol2/pp225-230 [accessed 13 March 2024].

↑ Eyton, R W. Antiquities of Shropshire. Vol. X, 1860, p 24 Internet Archive.

↑ Cawley, C. Lords Strange. Medieval Lands. A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families FMG.

↑ Richardson, D. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, p 208?.