Name Suffix:<NSFX> Lord Of Knokyn
John le Strange, Lord of Knokyn. This feudal baron, in the time of his father, was deputy governor of Winchester Castle, and in the 48th Henry III [1264], he was constituted governor of the castle of Montgomery. He subsequently espoused the baronial cause and, after the triumph of the barons at Lewes, was reinstated in the governorship of Montgomery Castle. In the 3rd Edward I [1375], he surrendered to his brother, Robert, his entire right in the manor of Wrockwurdine. His lordship m. Joane, one of the daus. and heirs of Roger de Someri, Baron of Dudley, by his 1st wife, Lady Nichola de Albini, sister and co-heir of Hugh, 4th Earl of Arundel, and d. in 1276, when all his lands were seized upon by the crown, but in two years afterwards, they were restored to his son and heir, John le Strange. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 516, Strange, Barons Strange of Knokyn]