Roger Lestrange

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Roger Lestrange (also Strange ), († July 31, 1311 ) was an English nobleman, military man and civil servant.

Origin and service as military and civil servant

Roger Lestrange was a younger son of the Marcher Lords John III Lestrange and his wife Lucia , a daughter of Robert of Tregoz . After the victory of King Henry III. In the Second War of the Barons Lestrange received property in 1266, which the king had taken from the rebels. From May 1270 to October 1274 he was Sheriff of Yorkshire , but the main focus of his activities was in Cheshire , Shropshire and Staffordshire . Because of his local knowledge of the Welsh Marches , he was an important advisor to King Edward I during his conquest of Wales . During the king's first campaign in 1277, he was administrator of Oswestry Castle and Dinas Bran , Builth and Montgomery Castle . With the Welsh Lestrange was considered a tyrannical administrator. He played a special role during the second campaign to conquer Wales . On October 30, 1282 he succeeded the late Roger Mortimer as commander of the English troops in Mid Wales. On December 11th, he was involved in the Battle of Orewin Bridge , in which the Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd was killed. Lestrange wrote the message announcing the death of Llywelyn to the king. In early 1283 he took part in the siege and conquest of Castell y Bere . In 1284 he supervised the construction of the new castles that Edward I had built to secure his conquest in North Wales . In 1287 he was involved in the suppression of the revolt of Rhys ap Maredudd and in the siege of his castle Dryslwyn Castle , as well as in 1294 in the suppression of the Welsh uprising under Madog ap Llywelyn . He also took part in the campaigns in Gascony in 1295 and in Flanders in 1297 .

Service as envoy and judge as well as political activity

On October 21, 1283 Lestrange was the office of forestry judge for the royal forests north of the Trent transferred, which he held until February 12 1297th In 1291 he traveled as envoy to Pope Nicholas IV and did not return until 1292. He was called to several parliamentary and royal council assemblies and from 1295 referred to as Lord Lestrange . Despite his contribution to the conquest of Wales, he did not get his own rule in Wales, although he had hoped to rule over Maelor Saesneg in North Wales. He served as a knight of the royal household for many years. As early as 1298 he is mentioned as a sick man, and through years of service in the king's entourage he was so indebted that the king decreed in 1306 that he would pay for his funeral. He continued to serve the king in smaller missions and was one of the signatories of the barons' letter to the pope in 1301.

Marriages

In his first marriage Lestrange was married to Maud , the widow of Roger de Mowbray († 1266), who was a daughter and partial heir of William de Beauchamp . After her death in 1275 he was allowed to live on her property as a widower until her children from her first marriage came of age in 1278. His second wife Eleanor died in 1280, 1307 a third wife, also Maud, is mentioned. In 1275, after the death of his brother Hamo, he received a lifelong right to use Ellesmere and other properties in Shropshire. He died after a long illness and without descendants in 1311.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rees R. Davies: The Age of Conquest. Wales 1063-1415 . Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 1991. ISBN 0-19-820198-2 , p. 348.
  2. ^ RF Walker: William de Valence and the Army of West Wales, 1282-1283 . In: Welsh History Review. 18 (1997), p. 421.
  3. ^ Rees R. Davies: The Age of Conquest. Wales 1063-1415 . Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 1991. ISBN 0-19-820198-2 , p. 358.
  4. ^ Rees R. Davies: The Age of Conquest. Wales 1063-1415 . Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 1991. ISBN 0-19-820198-2 , p. 363.
personal data
SURNAME Lestrange, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strange, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight, military man and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1311