John LE STRANGE

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8th Lord of Knockin Le Strange

The Le Strange family was created as the Baron Strange de Knokyn or Baron Strange of Knokyn in 1299. Interestingly the baronies of Strange were created by writ, which means that they can pass through both male and female lines.

He married into the Woodville family who had a time of influence when his wife Jacquetta's sister, Elizabeth married King Edward IV. They were married in secret which led to great national difficulties when Edward died at a young age, and his son Edward V was a child.

The Woodvilles were greatly enriched by this alliance, but their advancement incurred the hostility of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, 'The Kingmaker', and his various alliances with the most senior figures in the increasingly divided royal family.

This hostility turned into open discord between King Edward and Warwick, leading to the Wars of the Roses, between the Houses of Lancaster and York, leading to the rise of the Tudor dynasty.

What had been an important alliance though marriage was now leading to a tricky political situation. His mother-in-law and sister-in law were accused of witchcraft, his wife's nephew, Edward V, along with his brother Richard, Duke of York were the Princes in the Tower who mysteriously disappeared [were presumed murdered], allowing Richard, the brother to Edward IV to take the crown, as Richard II. His brother-in-law Anthony was arrested and later executed, and his wife's family had few friends.

This struggle between the House of York and the House of Lancaster became known as the War of the Roses. The House of York was in power, but Richard II was not a popular king. John allied himself with Lady Margaret Stanley, born Lady Beaufort, and espoused the cause of Margaret's son Henry Tudor, a great-great-great-grandson of King Edward III.

Henry Tudor won the crown at the Battle of Bosworth Field, and become Henry VII of England and married Elizabeth of York, John's niece, the start of the Tudor Dynasty.

John was the uncle by marriage to the Queen of England, and his daughter, who inherited the Le Strange title in the absence of a male heir, married into the Stanley family, an alliance made during the War of the Roses, who were stepbrothers to the future King of England, Henry VII.

While much is not known directly about his life and participation in the War of the Roses, we can safely say he had friends in high places.

Grave inscription:
Sub hac tumba jacet nobilis Joannes Dominus Le Strange, Dominus de Knocking, Mohun, Wasset, Warnell et Lacy, et Dominus de Colham; una cum pictura Jagnettae quondam uxoris suae, quae quidem Jagnetta suit soror Elizabethae Reginae Angliae quondam uxoris Edwardi Quarti, qui quidem Joannes obiit 15 die Octobris, anno Regni Edwardi Quarti 17; quam quidem tumbam Johanna Domina Le Strange, una cum pictura Jagnettae ex sumptibus suis propriis sieri fecit, 1509.

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Under this lies the tomb of the famous Lord John Le Strange, Lord Knocking, Mohun, Wasset, Warnell and Lacy, and the Colham; once together with a picture Jagnettae [Jacquetta] of his wife, the sister of Elizabeth, Queen of England , which had once been, indeed, Jagnetta [Jacquetta] suit, wife to Edward IV, who died John recalls the day 15 of October, the 17 year of the reign of King Edward the Fourth; which, indeed, the tomb of John, the Le Strange, with the produce of his own, together with the Jagnettae [Jacquetta] accustomed to the painting he made, 1509.

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Grave location, photo of church, and tombstone inscription in Latin.
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John married Jacquetta WOODVILLE. Jacquetta (daughter of Richard WOODVILLE, Earl of Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg) was born ca 1437, Grafton, Northhamptonshire, England; died ca 1475, England; was buried , St John the Baptist Churchyard Hillingdon London Borough of Hillingdon Greater London, England. [Group Sheet]

1. Baroness Joan LE STRANGE was born 1463, Knockin, Shropshire, England; died 20 Mar 1513/14, St John the Baptist Churchyard Hillingdon, London Borough of Hillingdon, Greater London, England .

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His name is recorded in a summons to Parliament in 25 August 1404 as Richard Straunge.
-- Tudorplace Le Strange Genealogy, http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STRANGE.htm

Richard married Elizabeth DE COBHAM Bef 26 August 1439. Elizabeth (daughter of Reginald DE COBHAM and Elizabeth CULPEPPER) was born Abt 1419, Sterborough Castle, Lingfield, Surrey, England; died 10 Dec 1453, Hordley, Ellesmere, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999. Page: 2506.

Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000. Page: XII/1:355-6

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Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000. Page: XII/1:355-6.

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6th Lord of Knockin Le Strange.

John married Maud DE MOHUN. Maud (daughter of John DE MOHUN, Baron de Dunster) died 20 Sep 1400. [Group Sheet]

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Alleged father, but not proven.

Reginald married Elizabeth CULPEPPER. [Group Sheet]

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Alleged mother, but not proven.

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5th Lord Strange of Knockin Le Strange

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Roger married Aleyne FITZALAN. Aleyne (daughter of Edmund FITZALAN, Lord of Arundel and Alice DE WARREN) was born 1314, Arundel, West Sussex, England; died 20 Jan 1385/86, Oswestry Shropshire, England; was buried , Black Friars Priory Shrewsbury Shropshire Unitary Authority Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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Some sources have alternative forms for Aleyne's name: Alaive; Olive, Aline.

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