Ebulo Lestrange, 1st Baron Strange

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Ebulo Lestrange, 1st Baron Strange (also Ebles Lestrange or L'Estrange ) († September 8, 1335 ) was an English nobleman and military.

The ruins of Clifford Castle, given to Ebulo Lestrange in 1331

Origin and marriage to the Countess of Lincoln

Ebulo Lestrange was believed to be the second son of John Lestrange, 1st Baron Strange of Knockin , a baron from Shropshire in the Welsh Marches , and his wife Maud Deyville . He was one of the nobles who hunted down the royal favorite Piers Gaveston in 1312 . Gaveston was eventually executed at the instigation of the Earl of Lancaster , leader of the aristocratic opposition. In view of the pressure of the aristocratic opposition, King Edward II had to come to an agreement with the barons and therefore pardoned Lestrange along with numerous other barons and knights on October 16, 1313. The king never forgave Lancaster for the murder of his favorite and had him executed as a traitor after a failed rebellion in 1322. After 1313 Lestrange probably no longer belonged to Lancaster's supporters and did not take part in its rebellion. Before November 10, 1324 he married his widow Alice de Lacy . Allegedly he had had an affair with her before 1317. In the spring of 1317 she had been kidnapped by Earl Warenne's followers and never returned to her husband. Instead, she moved in with Lestrange, who claimed to have been engaged to her before she married. According to him, he had had sexual intercourse with Alice even before marriage, which further damaged her reputation, but which was also another humiliation of Lancaster. After the execution of Lancaster, Alice de Lacy had to transfer a large part of their own possessions under pressure from the royal favorite Hugh le Despenser and his son of the same name, Hugh the Younger . Nevertheless, she was with her remaining possessions, including Lincoln Castle and her inherited titles Countess of Lincoln and Salisbury for Lestrange a worthwhile game.

Political activity and military service

Even during the reign of Edward II, Lestrange was knighted as Knight of the Bath in 1325 or 1326 and made a Knight Banneret . After the fall of Edward II. He was first issued on December 3, 1326 by Writ of Summons as Baron Strange in a Parliament called, but he was never considered by Iure uxoris as Earl of Lincoln. The new government, dominated by Roger Mortimer , returned him and his wife to lifelong use on November 28, 1328, which had fallen to the Despensers after the death of the Earl of Lancaster, including estates in Middlesex , Oxfordshire , Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire . In October 1330 Lestrange was one of the nobles who gave the young King Edward III. supported in the fall of Mortimer. The king rewarded him in 1331 with the handover of Clifford Castle and other possessions. As early as 1327 Lestrange had taken part in the unsuccessful Weardale Campaign against a Scottish army that had invaded northern England. During the Second Scottish War of Independence , he took part in the Siege of Berwick and the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333 . Lestrange deployed soldiers in Wales for the king's campaign to Scotland, which was planned for the summer of 1335. Lestrange himself also took part in the campaign during which he died.

heritage

It was after his death in the Norbertine abbey of Barlings buried in Lincolnshire. His heir became his cousin Roger Lestrange, 4th Baron Strange of Knockin . His widow Alice married Hugh de Freyne for the third time , but he died a little later. At her own request, Alice was buried next to Lestrange in Barlings Abbey after her death in 1348.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hamon le Strange: Le Strange Records . Longman, Green & Co., London 1916, p. 271.
  2. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella. She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . Pimlico, London 2006, ISBN 0-7126-4194-7 , p. 111.
  3. ^ Hamon le Strange: Le Strange Records . Longman, Green & Co., London 1916, p. 274.
  4. ^ Hamon le Strange: Le Strange Records . Longman, Green & Co., London 1916, p. 277.
  5. ↑ JR Maddicott: Alice Lacy. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
personal data
SURNAME Lestrange, Ebulo, 1st Baron Strange
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lestrange, Ebles; L'Estrange, Ebles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1335