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    Strangways, Henry

    Male Abt 1502 - 1544  (~ 42 years)


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    • Name Strangways, Henry 
      Born Abt 1502  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 14 Sep 1544  Siege of Boulogne, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I03080  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 16 Jun 2015 

      Father Strangways, Giles,   b. 4 May 1486, Of Abbotsbury, Dorsetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 11 Dec 1546, Melbury Sampford, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years) 
      Mother Mordaunt, Joan,   b. Abt 1487, Of Copley, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Of Melbury Sampford, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Married Abt 1502  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F01520  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Maners, Margaret,   b. Abt 1505, Of Helmsley, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jan 1559, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 54 years) 
      Married 26 Nov 1526  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
      +1. Strangways, Giles,   b. Apr 1528, Of Melbury Sampford, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 11 Apr 1562, Melbury Sampford, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 33 years)
       2. Strangways, Henry,   b. Abt 1530, England Find all individuals with events at this location
      +3. Strangways, Eleanor,   b. Abt 1532, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1591, Of Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 59 years)
       4. Strangways, Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1534, England Find all individuals with events at this location
       5. Strangways, Anne,   b. Abt 1536
      Family ID F01090  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Henry Strangwayes, Esq., was killed at the siege of Boulogne in his father's lifetime, September i4th, 1544; his will was dated April 18th of the same year, and proved November 2 1st, 1545. He married Margaret, daughter of George Manners, Lord Roos, settlement after marriage dated November 26th, 1526; living 1544. His shield bears the following arms. Quarterly of six...
        His grandfather, Henry Strangwayes, Esq., who was buried in St. Mary's Chapel, at Abbotsbury, married Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Arundell, of Llanherne, by Katherine, daughter of Sir John Chideock; ..died 1504, leaving a son, Sir Gyles the elder. The shield to the dexter belongs to the effigy, and bears the arms of Sir Gyles Strangwayes, the younger, son of the above Henry Strangwayes, Esq., Sir Gyles was born about 1524; married, in 1547, Joan, daughter of Sir John Wadham, of Merifield, co. Somerset, and Edge, co. Devon. Sir Gyles died in 1562.


        Will of Sir Henry Strangways or Strangwais 21 November 1545 PROB 11/30


        Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Volume ns vol 13). (page 21)
        MELBURY SAMPFORD. Memorials to the Bruning als Brounyng and Strangwayes Families.
        ...Melhury Sampford. - Sir Gyles Strangwayes, 1562, in tabard. Two shields, with thirteen and fourteen quarterings respectively, and inscriptions to Henry Strangwayes, Esq,, who "died at the syege of Bolleyne," and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Lord George Rosse; and to Sir Gyles Strangwayes and his wife, Joan, eldest daughter of John Wadham, Esq. There are also strip brasses around recumbent marble effigies of Sir Gyles Strangwayes the elder, 1547, and William Brunyng, 1467, and a rectangular brass plate to Laurencius Sampford, miles, and another to John and Alicia Brounyng, with three coats-of-arms. .....Melbury Sampford. Sir Gyles Strangwayes, of Melbury, Knight, is shown with his head bare, and resting on a hejmet, on which is his crest, a lion pass, in pale paly of 6 argent and gules. He wears a chain around his neck, and a tabard with these arms....


        The shield of Henry Strangwayes, who was killed at the siege of Boulogne in his father's lifetime, September 14th, 1544.
        Quarterly of six, as before. Impaling :
        ...
        Tabards first appear on brasses of the fifteenth century. They became comparatively common ... Dorset possesses two other examples - Christopher Martyn, 1524, Piddletown, and Sir Gyles Strangwayes, 1562, Melbury Sampford.