General Notes

Name Suffix:<NSFX> Sheriff Of Shropshire
John le Strange, a person of great note in his time. In the 16th John [1215], his father still living, he was in the wars of Poictou, and in the 15th Henry III [1231], he obtained a grant of the inheritance of the manor of Wrockwurdine, for the yearly rent of £8 to be paid to the king, and his heirs and successors. In the 21st of the same reign, he was appointed sheriff of the cos. Salop and Stafford, and constituted governor of the castle of Salop and Bruges. He was afterwards one of the barons marchers and had command as such to reside in the marches in order to resist the incursions of the Welsh. In the contest between Henry III and the barons, his lordship adhere with great fidelity to the king and obtained, for his loyalty, a grant of the lands of Walter de Muscegros, which had been forfeited in that rebellion. By Amicia, his wife, he had issue, John, his successor; Hamon, of Ellesmere, from whom descended the Stranges, of Blackmere. He d. in 1269, and was s. by his eldest son, John le Strange. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 515, Strange, Barons Strange of Knokyn]