James Strangeways
Sir James Strangeways | |
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Predecessor | Sir James Strangeways, knt |
Successor | Sir Richard Strangeways, knt |
Born | James Strangeways Harlsby, Osmotherley, Yorkshire, England |
Buried | St Mary's Overy, Southwick [Southwark] |
Family | Strangeways of Harlsby and Whorleton |
wife | Elizabeth Darcy Elizabeth Eure |
Issue | 11 sons, 4 daughters |
Father | Sir James Strangeways |
Mother | Anne Orrell |
Occupation | knight Sheriff Justice of the Peace Member of Parliament |
Sir James Strangeways (c. 1410 – 1516) was Speaker of the House of Commons of England between 1461–1462.[1] and a close political ally of Edward IV's Yorkist faction.
Life
James was the son of Sir James Strangeways of
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Strangeways was returned for Yorkshire with his brother-in-law, the other 'knight of the shire', Sir Thomas Montford. Reappointed as a JP of the North Riding, he rode with the Yorkist nobles into southern Yorkshire to arrest and imprison the Lancastrian knights there. Strangeways made extensive use of an arbitrary piece of law Scandalum magnatum widely abused by the Yorkist regime. It enabled the arrest for just cause for uttering alleged falsehoods, and artisans who breached patent laws in manufacture. Its application was generalised by court officials. When Somerset's army defeated and killed the duke of York at Wakefield at the end of the year the earl of March was not present. It is likely Strangeways was captured but released by Edward when he was reported as killed at the
Strangeways' fealty was rewarded with
With the death of the Earl of Salisbury, Strangeways drew closer to the Neville faction and
He died in 1516[7] and was buried in the abbey church of St. Mary Overy's, Southwark.
Family
He had married twice; firstly Elizabeth Darcy (1417–61), daughter of Sir Philip Darcy, 6th Baron Darcy of Knayth, with whom he had at least 11 sons and four daughters[8] including Robert Strangeways[5] whose daughter, Joan Strangeways, married Christopher Boynton, son of Sir Christopher Boynton (died 1452) of Sedbury,[9] and was buried at St Mary's Church, South Cowton. His second wife was Elizabeth Eure (1444-1481), daughter of Ralph, Lord Eure of Berwick Castle and a Yorkist ally, and his wife Eleanor Bulmer of Appletreewick, Yorkshire. They had at least three surviving children, Felicia, Ralph, and Edward.
Children
by his first wife
- Sir Richard, knt married 1) Elizabeth, daughter of William Neville, 1st earl of Kent; married 2) Joan, daughter of Richard de Aston.
- James of Smeton married Anne, daughter of Sir John Conyers.
- William
- Philip
- George, clerk
- Christopher
- Henry married Alinore, daughter Walter Tailboys
- John
- Robert of Ketton
- Thomas died young
- Thomas
- Margery married 1. John Ingleby 2.Richard Welles, knt, Lord Welles
- Eleanor married Edmund Mauleverer of Woodersome.
- Joan
- Elizabeth married Marmaduke Clervaux.
His grandson, also Sir James Strangeways and often confused with his grandfather, was also High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1492 and 1508.
References
- ^ Department of Information Services (9 July 2009). "Speakers of the House of Commons" (PDF). SN/PC/04637. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ^ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/717; Year 1440; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no717/bCP40no717dorses/IMG_1902.htm; 4th entry as defendant against John Fastolf, knight
- ^ Official Return of Members of Parliament, I, 340, 356, App.XXIV.; J.S. Roskell, Parliaments and Politics in Late Medieval England, II, 279.
- ^ J.S. Roskell, The Speakers in the Commons and House of Parliament, 1376-1523, MUP, 1965, p.271.
- ^ ISBN 9781460992708.
- ^ B.Skaife, Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the City of York, Surtees Society, 75 (1872), 75
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26642. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 9781460992708.
Bibliography
- J.S. Roskell, 'Sir James Strangeways of West Harsley and Whorlton', The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol.XXXIX, (1958), 455–82.