Elizabeth (Eure) Strangeways (1426)

Born 1426 in Bradley Manor,Wolsingham,Durham,England

Ancestors

Wife of James Strangeways — married before 1468 in Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in England

Biography

Durham University Library: Archives and Special Collections
1.5.Spec.38    14 May [1431]
Language:  English
Agreement between Ralph Bulmer esquire and Roger Thornton esquire about Thornton's mortgage in Bulmer's lands in Simonside and Nesbit, with £40 to be paid by Robert Eure esquire, with Emery Heryng, William Hoton, and John of Chester who, acting as sureties, on the advice of Robert Whelpington, were to make estate of the said land to his son and heir William and to Elizabeth daughter of the said Robert Eure, as per their marriage settlement made on 28 April 9 Henry VI [1431].
Sealed with his seal but, as it is “nought of armes nor autentik”, he has also had the seal of the official of Durham added.
Date: 14 May 9 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 303 x 96 mm
Seal: [selaing tongue and wrapping tie] stubs
Copy: DCD Cart. IV, f.242v.

1.5.Spec.39   12 January [1442]
Grant by Ralph Bulmer lord of Wilton in Cleveland miles to his son William Bulmer and his wife Elizabeth all his lands etc in the vill of Simonside near Jarrow in Co Durham, and also the right to receive annually a rent of £3 from the manor of Nesbit in the wapentake of Sadberge, with reversion to Ralph and his heirs.
Witnesses: Alexander Nevill miles, Robert Claxton armiger, John Claxton armiger, Jacob Tocotez, Thomas Lambert, Ralph Kirkby chaplain vicar of Hesilden.
Date: Thorpbulmer, 12 January 20 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m, indented head, zig-zag
Size: 289 X 147mm
Seal: G&B No.456, on a parchment tag, through 1 slit in a turnup
Copy: DCD Cart. IV, f.242v-243r.

1.5.Spec.40   14 January [1442]
Appointment by Ralph Bulmer lord of Wilton miles of Robert Thormanby and Richard Kirkby chaplain, as his attornies to deliver seisin of the lands of Simonside near Jarrow in County Durham and an annual rent of £3 from the manor of Nesbit in the wapentake of Sadberge to his son William Bulmer and his wife Elizabeth.
Witnesses: Alexander Nevill miles, Robert Claxton armiger, John Claxton armiger, Jacob Tocotez, Thomas Lambart, Richard Kirkby chaplain vicar of Hesilden.
Date: Thorpbulmer, 14 January 20 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 291 x 111mm
Seal: G&B No.456, on a parchment tag, through 1 slit in a turnup
Copy: DCD Cart. IV, f.243r.

1.5.Spec.41   15 February [1464]
Grant by John Chester to Elizabeth, wife of James Strangways miles, former wife of William Bulmer miles, of all his lands and rents in the vill and territory of Simonside, formerly given to him and the deceased Adomar Heryng and William Hoton by the feoffment of Ralph Bulmer miles, for the duration of her life, with reversion to the rightful heirs of Ralph Bulmer, and he has appointed as his attorneys Ralph Eure and John Dickson (Dicson) chaplain to deliver seisin to Elizabeth.
Witnesses: Robert Claxton and Christopher Conyers of Sockburn milites, Richard Clervaux, John Catterick, John Layton of Saxhow armigeres.
Date: Simonside, 15 February 3 Edward IV.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 120 x 200mm
Seal: G&B No.580, on a parchment tag, through a slit in a turnup
Copy: DCD Cart. IV, f.243r-v.

Research Notes

Elizabeth Eure married Sir William Bulmer.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. V, pp 70, STRANGEWAYS #11 (Elizabeth Eure m James Strangeways): "Roskell Parl. & Politics in Late Medieval England 2 (1981): 279–306 (biog. of Sir James Strangeways) [confuses 2nd wife, Elizabeth Eure, with her cousin of the same name, Elizabeth Eure, wife of Sir William Bulmer, for whom see Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 33 (1872): 146]."

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