 1528 - 1562 (~ 33 years)
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| Name |
Strangways, Giles |
| Born |
Apr 1528 |
Of Melbury Sampford, Dorset, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
11 Apr 1562 |
Melbury Sampford, Dorset, England |
| Person ID |
I03071 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
16 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
Strangways, Henry, b. Abt 1502, England , d. 14 Sep 1544, Siege of Boulogne, France (Age ~ 42 years) |
| Mother |
Maners, Margaret, b. Abt 1505, Of Helmsley, Yorkshire, England , d. 27 Jan 1559, England (Age ~ 54 years) |
| Married |
26 Nov 1526 |
England |
| Family ID |
F01090 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Wadham, Joan, b. Abt 1533, Of Merrifield, Somerset, England , bur. 14 Jun 1603, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 70 years) |
| Married |
Between Oct and Nov 1546 |
England |
| Children |
| + | 1. Strangways, Anne, b. Abt 1550, Of Melbury, Dorset, England , d. Abt 1606, Of Badminton, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 56 years) |
| + | 2. Strangways, John, b. Abt 1552, Of Melbury, Dorset, England , d. 1593, Of Melbury, Dorset, England (Age ~ 41 years) |
| | 3. Strangways, George, b. Abt 1556, Of Melbury, Dorset, England , d. Bef 1603, England (Age ~ 47 years) |
| | 4. Strangways, Edward, b. Abt 1558, Of Melbury, Dorset, England , d. Bef 1603 (Age ~ 45 years) |
| | 5. Strangways, Nicholas, b. Abt 1558, Of Melbury, Dorset, England , d. Abt 1604, Of Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 46 years) |
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| Family ID |
F01086 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Will of Sir Gyles Strangwaie of Melbury Sampford, Dorset Date 27 June 1562 Catalogue reference PROB 11/45
-of Melbury Sampford, wife Johan alias Jane Strangwais, son John Strangwais, daughter Anne, father in law John Wadham, Nicholas Wadham,
Codical written 1558-son Edward
Codical 1562-John Wadham my father-in-law, George my son.
P. 281. Funeral of Sir Giles Strangways. "Sir Gyles Strangwysh, of Melbury Sanford, in the county of Dorset, knight, dysceased the xjth of Apryll, 1562, and is beryed in the churche of Melbury. He maryed Jone doter of John Wadham of Meryfelde in the county of Somerset, and by her had issue John Stranguysh son and heyr, George 2 son, Nycolas 3 son, Anne." (MS. Lansd. 897, f. 20b.)
From: 'Notes to the diary: 1562', The Diary of Henry Machyn: Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (1550-1563) (1848), pp. 388-393. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45543 Date accessed: 24 July 2010.
See History of Parliament Online
Giles was born abt 1528, first son of Henry Strangeways by Margaret, daughter of George Manners, Lord Ros. He married about 1546, Joan daughter of John Wadham of Merifield, Somerset and sister of Sir Nicholas Wadham; by whom he had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He succeeded his grandfather Sir Giles Strangeways in 1546.
He was knighted 1549. Strangeways owned extensive estates in Dorset, including the site of the monastery of Abbotsbury. Through his wife his heirs acquired rights to considerable property in Somerset, which he himself did not live to enjoy. He also owned lands in Yorkshire, from where the family had moved to Dorset in the fifteenth century.
A license to alienate was granted in Oct 1546: "Sir Giles Strangeways to Sir Hugh Paulet...John Sydenham of Brympton...to the use of the said Sir Giles for Life..." He was a protestant during Edward VI's reign, when he served as a commissioner for church goods. After Mary's accession he came up to London to render an accont of his proceedings in the latter capacity. He was one of those who "stood for the true religion" in the Oct 1553 parliament.
In 1557 he commaned 50 men in the expedition of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, to St. Quentin.
In June 1555 he surrendered himself to the Fleet to avoid outlawry for debts that included over £100 to two London tailors.
He sold 700 ewes, 600 wethers and 300 hogs, leaving three estates denuned of livestock. When he died in his early thirties on 11 April 1562 he left his widow with at least six children under 21. His will, which he made before going on the St Quentin campaign and to which he added two codicils, in 1558 and 1562, required his wife, if she married again, to give a bond of £2000 to carry out her duties as executrix. The executrix was compelled to sell all the household goods to pay debts amounting to over £3000. Strangeways left 1000 marks to his daughter Anne on her marriage and 600 marks to a younger son. There is an effigy of him in plate armour at Melbury Sampford church.
See "The Brasses of England", Rev. H. W. Macklin, M.A., 1907
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