Peter Stradelinges

Peter Stradelinges acquired St Donat's Castle in South Wales at the beginning of the 14th century

Sir Peter Stradelinges (also Stradling , de Stratelinges or Straddeley ) († before 1314) was an English nobleman who probably came from what was then Savoy . Through service to the English king and a rich marriage, he rose from the son of a foreign knight to a country noble with possessions in England and Wales.

origin

Peter Stradelinges was the eldest son of John de Estratlinges , who came from the Strättligen family from the Bernese Oberland . He was probably a son from his father's first marriage and accompanied his father when he emigrated to England in 1263. His father married the wealthy heir Maud Wauton in England , but since the marriage had remained childless, her inheritance reverted to her after his father's death in 1293. Peter only inherited the estates that his father had acquired in the service of the Crown in England.

Rise to country noble in Wales

Peter Stradelinges served as his father said to him related Otton de Grandson , a close friend of the English King Edward I had become. He was probably the Peter de Straddeley , who was administrator of Neath Castle in Wales in 1296 and who gave the castle to Walter Hakelute in 1297 . During the Franco-English War Stradelinges took part in the campaign of the English king to Flanders in 1297 . When Otton de Grandson traveled to France as a negotiator in 1298, he entrusted Stradelinges with the administration of his estates in Tipperary and Waterford in Ireland . Probably at the beginning of the 14th century Stradelinges was able to marry Joan Haweia , a daughter of Thomas de Haweia . She became the heir to her father's estates after the death of her brother Thomas before 1298, so that Stradelinges came into the possession of St Donat's Castle in Glamorgan , Combe Hawey in Somerset and Compton Hawey in Dorset through marriage . He had at least two children with his wife:

John Stradling († before 1316)
Edward Stradling († around 1363)

Stradelinges died in 1314 or shortly before. His heir was first his older son John, after his untimely death his younger son Edward.

Web links

Jones, ED: STRADLING family of Glamorganshire . In: Dictionary of Welsh Biography
RA Griffiths: Stradelinges, Peter (d. In or before 1314). 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

Individual evidence

^ Ralph A. Griffiths: The rise of the Stradlings of St Donat's . In: Morgannwg , 7 (1963), p. 17.
^ Ralph A. Griffiths: The rise of the Stradlings of St Donat's . In: Morgannwg , 7 (1963), p. 18.
^ Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales: An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan. Vol. III, Part 1b: Medieval Secular Monuments: The later Castles from 1217 to the Present. HMSO, Cardiff 1976, ISBN 1-871184-22-3 , p. 310.

personal data
SURNAME	Stradelinges, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stradelinges, Sir Peter; Stratelinges, Peter; Stradling, Peter; de Straddeley, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Knight from Savoy in England
DATE OF BIRTH	13th Century
DATE OF DEATH	before 1314

[1] Ralph A. Griffiths: The rise of the Stradlings of St Donat's . In: Morgannwg , 7 (1963), p. 17.

[2] Ralph A. Griffiths: The rise of the Stradlings of St Donat's . In: Morgannwg , 7 (1963), p. 18.

[3] Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales: An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan. Vol. III, Part 1b: Medieval Secular Monuments: The later Castles from 1217 to the Present. HMSO, Cardiff 1976, ISBN 1-871184-22-3 , p. 310.