Henry Strangeways (abt. 1365 - abt. 1429)

Born about 1365 in Manchester, Lancashire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 1429 at about age 64 in Northallerton, Yorkshire, England

Biography

Henry Strangways is given as the father of James Strangways, married to Joan, Daughter of Nicholas Orells, who in turn has a daughter named Isabella who is married to Sir Peter Gerard. Thomas Strangways, who is most often given as Isabella's father, is the brother of James. Thomas is also given as married to katherine, widow of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk.^[1]

At the head of its accepted pedigree is Henry Strangeways, very probably the same who, (described as "of Manchester") was paid in February 1402 at the Lower Exchequer 40 marks (by assignment) 'per manus Jacobi Strangeways' for wines which Richard II's Chief Butler had sometime taken for the royal use at Chester, who between 1399 and 1401 held the office of clerk and Keeper of the King's mills on the Dee at Chester and the fishery there, and who, appointed in June 1404 as chief chamberlain for the Exchequer of Ireland, was granted this office for life in the following January ans confirmed in possession of by Henry V in May 1414.^[2]

Henry Strangeways had a son named Thomas, who married into the great northern clasn of Neville, being the second husband of Katherine, daughter of Ralph Neville, first earl of Westmorland, by his second wife, Joan, the ligitimated daughter of John of Guant and Katherine Swynford. Katherine's first husband was John Mowbray, duke of Norfolk who died in Oct 1432. Henry Strangeway's other children seem all to have married into families of Lancashire and Cheshire, including the families of Orell, Worsley, Bulkeley and Wooto. His son James married Joan, daughter of Nicholas Orell, and James the Speaker was one of the children of this Union.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Pedigree of Strangeways," Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. II (London: John Bowyer Nichols & Son, 1835), p. 161, found at Google Books.
2. ↑ Issue Roll, E403, 571, membrane 23; CPR 1399-1401, p. 11; ibid., 1401-1405, p. 403; ibid., 1408-1413, p. 191; 1413-1416, p. 78; J. S. Roskell, Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England, vol. II (London: The Gloucester Press, 1981), p. 280, found at Google Books.
3. ↑ J. S. Roskell, Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England, vol. II (London: The Gloucester Press, 1981), p. 280, found at Google Books.