Edward Stradling (nobleman, around 1472)

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Sir Edward Stradling (* around 1472; † May 8, 1535 in St Donat's Castle ) was an English nobleman .

Origin and youth

Edward Stradling came from the Stradling family , a gentry family with estates in south Wales and south west England. He was the eldest son of Thomas Stradling and his wife Jenet, a daughter of Thomas Mathew from Radyr. His father was just of legal age when he inherited the family estates after his father's death in 1476. Because of his youth he had only held minor local offices when he died on September 8, 1480 in Cardiff. The Stradling family's estates were placed under the tutelage of Sir James Tyrell , a confidante of King Richard III. On the other hand, the early death of Thomas Stradling did not involve the family in the final phase of the Wars of the Roses. Edward's mother was a second marriage to Rhys ap Thomas . This took over after the defeat of Richard III. in the battle of Bosworth 1485 also the guardianship of Edward. Rhys ap Thomas rose to be an influential official in Wales as a supporter of the new King Henry VII , but he is said to have squeezed £ 208 out of Stradling's estates by 1488 alone.

Activity as an adult

After Stradling came of age around 1493, he took over the administration of his estates. In 1513 Stradling was a member of the English army that fought in the Netherlands and northern France during the Italian Wars . After the conquest of Tournai , he was on 25 September 1513 by King Henry VIII. To Knight of the Bath beaten. In Wales, Stradling initially had a good relationship with Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester , the most powerful magnate in Glamorgan. In June 1514, Stradling was among the people who held Gower , a domain of Worcester, in trust. Later, however, there were sometimes violent quarrels between the sometimes illegitimate sons of Stradling and followers of Worcester. Stradling himself only took over the office of administrator of the Ogmore estate in Wales , to which he was one of the judges at a court hearing in Cardiff in 1515 . Presumably he lived often on his Somerset estates . But he promoted traditional Welsh bards, and Lewis Morgannwg († 1565), who referred to himself as Stradling's house bard, wrote poems about pilgrimages by him to Brecon and Llangynwyd in Wales. According to another poem by Morgannwg, Stradling was after 1520 the patron saint of the Holy Spring of Penrhys in the Rhondda Valley , which was one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Wales until the late 16th century.

Marriage and offspring

Stradling had married Elizabeth Arundell († 1513), a daughter of Sir Thomas Arundell and Catherine Dynham from Lanherne in Cornwall . He had several sons and daughters with her, including:

Stradling was buried in the church of St Donat’s . On the first anniversary of his death, his eldest son and heir, Thomas Stradling, had his mother's bones, who had died twenty-two years earlier, transferred from her tomb in Merthyr Mawr and buried next to his father. Stradling's younger son John became a clergyman and was Rector of Neath from 1551 to 1569 . Stradling also had several children with a concubine .

Literature and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralph A. Griffiths: The rise of the Stradlings of St Donat’s . In: Morgannwg , 7 (1963), p. 29.
  2. ↑ a b Ralph A. Griffiths: The rise of the Stradlings of St Donat’s . In: Morgannwg , 7 (1963), p. 30.
  3. ↑ Kathryn Hurlock: Medieval Welsh pilgrimage, c.1100-1500 . Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, ISBN 978-1-137-43099-1 , p. 116.
  4. ↑ Ralph A. Griffiths: The rise of the Stradlings of St Donat’s . In: Morgannwg , 7 (1963), p. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Stradling, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stradling, Sir Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1472
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1535
Place of death St Donat's Castle