Sir Water de Strickland Knight

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition,41:29, Sir Walter de Strickland, son of Sir Robert and Elizabeth, he was of Sizergh, m. Elenore Goldington, daughter of William de Goldington & they were divorced in 1298. He married Maud. It is not know which of these wifes was the mother of his son and heir, Sir Thomas de Strickland. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Records and Notes. ⁸⁵⁹
859 Protection for Walter de Stirkeland, knt., going to Scotland in the king's service with Marmaduke de Twenge. [Cal. Pat. R. 1299, p. 456]

1300- 05 William de Stirkeland grants to his son and heir, Walter de Stirkeland, the land and waste in Le Howis between Le Kilnebek and the bounds of Syressergh, his land of Brigster and the land late Adam Ward's in Syressergh. Witnesses: Gilbert de Brunolvisheved, Robert de Wessington, Roland de Patton, William de Gylpyn, Henry de Guyp, Richard de Derley, Baldewyn de Schipesheved; Orig. D. at Sizergh. Small circular seal of green wax on a shield the arms of Strickland. Legend: s. WILL'I DE STE[RKELAND].

1319 Walter de Stirkeland showed that he had recovered his seisin against Marmaduke de Twenge and others of common of his pasture of Helsyngton and Stirkeland Ketel, but had again been disseised. [Abbrev. R. Original, i, 249 ff.]

1321 Commission to certain justices on the complaint of Walter de Stirkeland that William son of Marmaduke de Twenge, John de Hastthorp, Jordan de Dalden, Peter de Tonewyche, Robert de la More, Marmaduke son of John de Twenge, John de Wessyngton, Robert de Wessyngton, Thomas Ward, Ellis Gyliotson of Kyrkeby in Kendale, and Henry son of Gilbert de Crakhale with armed men came to his manor of Sighritheserd, while he was under the king's protection, and broke his close and houses and the doors and windows of the houses and set fire to the said houses, carried away his goods and Gilbert de Crakhale, his bondman, assaulted his servants and fixed the fingers of some of them into holes of posts with pins (kivillis) and beat others of them. [Cal. Pat. R., 1321, p. 56; 1317- 21, p. 610.]

1346 Grant for life, for good service on this side the seas, to John son of Walter de Stirkeland of the bailiwick of the forestership of Fourneys [Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1346, p. 479]
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~Records relating to the Barony of Kendale: Volume I, pp. 130-166.

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁰
Sir Walter de Strickland was not the eldest of Sir William's and Elizabeth's sons. A De Banco Roll of 5 Edward II (1311/12) specifically states that Elizabeth d'Eyncourt, wife of Sir William de Strickland had an elder son, William, who deceased without issue, when his next brother, Walter became his successor. William, Walter's older brother was prior to 1292, before successor father Sir William de Strickland had died. At this time Sir William de Strickland made settlements of the d'Eyncourt properties up (Sir) Walter de Strickland. [Horyold-Strickland, ibid, p. 18]

Sir Walter de Strickland took up knighthood in 1306 where his name occurs amongst the numerous company knighted on 22 May 1306, along with Edward, Prince of Wales. He married Eleanor de Goldington in 1295/6, and obtained a divorce from here in 1298 on the grounds that the marriage was within the prohibited degrees. It is very unlikely that Eleanor Goldington was the mother of all of Sir Walter's issue. Sir Walter left at least three children, Thomas (his heir), John and Ralph. Of these children, it seems possible that Thomas alone was a son of the Goldington marriage, if indeed, the whole of Sir Walter's issue were not by a later wife. Sir Walter de Strickland's career was a long and active one. He served as a member of Parliament for his native county in 1307, 1312, 1313, 1322, 1324 and 1332.

~ The Early Hstory of the Stricklands of Sizergh, pp. 40-45

Water married someone.¹⁶⁰