Mathilda (de Wauton) Strange (abt. 1265 - abt. 1320)

Born about 1265 in England

Ancestors

Wife of John de Stratelinges — married about 1284 in England

Wife of John (Strange) le Strange — married about 1299 in England

Wife of Thomas (Hastang) de Hastang — married about 1310 in England

Descendants

Died about 1320 at about age 55 in England

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Biography

Historical Records

Concerning the parentage of Maud, many sources including older versions of the Complete Peerage made an amalgam of several people. But as explained in more recent sources such as L' Estrange Ewen, Richardson and The Victoria History of Warwickshire (under Wellesbourne), Maud de Walton (or de Wauton) was daughter of John de Wauton, son of Simon de Wauton, who bought the manor from the D'Eiville family when Roger d'Eiville had money trouble.

As explained in the VCH account, Maud was still a minor in 1277, and Walter Giffard, Archbishop of York was assigned by her parents over their manor, with the intention that Maud would inherit them. In 1281 he conveyed them to Robert Burnel, Bishop of Bath and Wells. He "undertook to marry to one of the elder sons of either his brother Hugh Burnel or of Sir Robert de Escales. As already mentioned, however, Maud married first Sir John de Strattelinges and secondly John Lestrange of Knockin, and thirdly Thomas Hastang."

Another confusion resolved only in the 20th century, comes from the fact that her second husband John Lestrange had two sons named John, one who was his main heir. He was lord of Knockin. The other was her heir, for example at Walton Deiville in Warwickshire, which was land she had by inheritance. He is referred to in some records as the king's yeoman.

The inheritance of the castle manor of Myddle came to be disputed between the heirs of the two wives.

In 1284, Maud married John de Stratelinges.^[1] John de Stratelinges died prior to February 1293/4. ^[2]

On 20 May 1290, King Edward I granted Sir John and his wife, Maud, a charter for weekly market and annual 2-day fair for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June) to be held on their Little Wellsbourne Manor grounds.^[1]

On 4 May 1292, Henry de Foun and Isabel (Mad's mother) quitclaimed the 1/3 part of the following to John de Strattelinges and Maud and to Mauds heirs: ^[3]

In Warwickshire: 36 messuages, 9 carucates, 9 virgates of land, 3 mills, 7 acres of wood, 15 acres of meadow, 51 pounds 10 shillings of rent in Walton Deyuile, Walton Maudut, Wellsbourne, Lokesleye, Hunstanescote, Tysho and Ouer Pylardyngton

In Oxfordshire: 1 messuage, 2 carucates of land, 1 mill, 5 acres of meadow and 7 pounds rent in Alkington

In Gloucsestershire: 1 messuage and 4 virgates of land in Shenington

As Sir John's marriage to Maud produced no heir, upon his death in 1293/4 all the de Wauton estates remained with Maud when she remarried. In 1294, the register of Bishop Giffard mentions that Stradling had no children from his wife.^[4] He is possibly the John de Estrateleng whose executors (possibly including Maud?) were doing a bad job in 1305. If so he died on campaign in Gascony.^[5]

In 1296/7, Margaret, daughter of King Edward I, was commanded by the king to travel to the Province of Brabant for much of the year. Matilda travelled and remained with Margaret, during her time away, which did not see her return to England until 1298.

09 January 1296/7|Ipswich| Letters for Matilda de Stratulyng, going as above, nominating Walter de Pedwardyn her attorney for that period. ^[6]

09 January 1296/7|Ipswich| Protection with clause volumus until Midsummer for the following going Ipswich by the king's command to Brabant with Margaret the king's daughter, duchess of Brabant: Master John Luvel, Roger de Tylemanston, Matilda de Stratelyng, Walter de Berton parson of the church of Farleye.^[6]

20 July 1297|Westminster| Protection with clause volumus, for one year, for Matilda de Strateling, staying in Brabant with Margaret the king's daughter, duchess of Brabant. ^[7]

In 1299 she was certainty remarried to her second husband John le Strange of Knockyn. He had the manor of Myddle ("Mudle") and Ritton assigned to him and his second wife Maud jointly, meaning it would go to her joint heir, not the heir from her husband's first marriage.^[8]

John died in 1309 and Myddle was assigned to Maud in dower.^[9]

She died after she married to Thomas Hastang, which had to be after her previous husband John Lestraunge died in 1309, and shortly before March 1310 when the Close Rolls record:^[10]

March 28. Westminster. To Hugh le Mercer, escheator in co. Chester. Order to restore to Matilda, late the wife of John Lestraunge, the manors of Trofford and Donham, co. Chester, which she held jointly with her said husband for their lives of the gift of Edmund, earl of Arundel, who held them of the king in chief, having obtained the king's licence for this grant; which manors the escheator has taken into the king's hands on the pretext that she has married Thomas de Hastang without the king's licence. He is to restore to her any issues thereof received by him.

Thomas is also shown to be Maud's new husband in a record where he and Maud represented the interests of her daughter Elizabeth Lestrange, wife of the heir of Madoc ap Griffith Maillor, a Welsh prince. ^[11]

Thomas Hastang was lord of Walton Deiville in her name in 1316. She appears to also be still alive.^[12] Thomas Hastang was also lord in Myddle.^[13]

Thomas Hastang was still holding Walton in 1321, when he owed money to Hugh de Neville.^[14] (Possibly Maud was still alive then?)

Complete Peerage (2nd ed. Vol 14 with amendments) says:

[Maud] m. between 30 Oct. 1309 and 28 Nov. 1310, as his 1st wife, Thomas DE HASTANG, of Chebsey, co. Stafford, who d. in or before 1348. She d. before July 1325.’

By 1328/9 her son John Lestraunge, king's yeoman, had taken over, and presumably Maud had passed away somewhere between 1316 and 1329.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} L'Estrange Ewen cites the register of bishop Giffard, and Dugdale's Warwickshire pp.572 & 576.
2. ↑ Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward I, vol. 5: 1302-1307. (London, 1908) Membrane 16 (Accessed 14 MAR 2021)
3. ↑ medievalgenealogy.org; CP 25/1/285/24, number 212.
4. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/episcopalregiste02cath#page/444/mode/1up
5. ↑ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9517684
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward I, vol. 3: 1292-1301. (London, 1895) Membrane 22 (Accessed 14 MAR 2021)
7. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward I, vol. 3: 1292-1301. (London, 1895) Membrane 12 (Accessed 14 MAR 2021)
8. ↑ L'Estrange Ewen cites the Close Rolls of 3 Edward II, and Eyton X 67.
   • 'Close Rolls, Edward II: October 1309', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1892), pp. 179-184. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp179-184 [accessed 3 August 2018].
   • Eyton Shropshire X p.67
9. ↑ L'Estrange Ewen cites the Inq. Post Mortem of John and another entry in Close Rolls 3 Edward II
   • 'Close Rolls, Edward II: October 1309', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1892), pp. 232-234. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp232-234 [accessed 3 August 2018].
10. ↑ 'Close Rolls, Edward II: March 1310', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1892), pp. 202-203. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp202-203 [accessed 1 August 2018].
11. ↑ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9060188
12. ↑ J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II, File 48', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 5, Edward II (London, 1908), pp. 384-397. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol5/pp384-397 [accessed 1 August 2018].
13. ↑ Feudal Aids IV p.230
14. ↑ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9535835