Elizabeth d’Eyncourt

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:28, married William de Strickland, son of Sir Robert de Strickland. Elizabeth and William are given as parents of Sir Walter de Strickland and Joan de Strickland who married Robert de Washington who is believed to be ancestors of George Washington ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁰
Elizabeth d'Eyncourt died between 1272-1276, having succeeed in or before 1271 to the manors of Sizergh, Natland, Stainton, Routhworth, and Tristermont, with lands at Lowther, Hackthorpe, Barton, Sockbridge, Windergh, Whelpside and Yanwath, co. Westmorland, half the manor or Blencarn and property at Drigg, co. Cumberland, and half the manor Carnforth in Warton, co. Lancashire. Her husband, Sir William de Strickland, outlived her for over thirty years, and was still alive on 1 May 1305, when he entered into a covenant regarding waste and destruction in the lands of his late wife's inheritance at Barton, Hackthorpe and Heversham [Hornyold Stircklad, op.cit., p. 19].

The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, pp. 38-40

Elizabeth, married, Jun 1239, to William, the young son and heir of Sir Robert de Strickland of Great Strickland, Westmorland; and she must have succeeded as heiress of the d'Eyncourt family in or before 1271. Peter de Brus, nephew and one of the co-heiirs of William de Lancaster III, confirmed to William de Strickland and Elizabeth his wife their lands of Natland, Sizergh, Hacktrorpe, etc. Elizabeth died between 1272 and 1276, whe she is referred to as "deceased" in the course of a plea conncerning the manor of Tristermont [Coram Rege Roll, Westmorland, Michaelmas, 4 Edward I, m. I]

The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, pp. 64-67

Elizabeth married Sir William Strickland Knight, son of Sir Robert de Strickland Knight and Sister of Sir Thomas of Master William de Genellestane, in Jun 1239 in Great Strickland, Westmorland, England ¹⁶⁰.^,910 (Sir William Strickland Knight was born in Westmorland, England ⁹¹⁰ and died in 1305/1306 in Westmorland, England ¹⁶⁰.)