Sir Thomas de Strickland Knight

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:32, married Mabel de Beethom and were parents to Walter de Strickland. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁸⁵⁹
The mesne manor of Hincaster was held by the family of Gernet of the Burtons, as of their manor of Burton in Kendale, by the yearly service of 6s. 8d. After the termination of the male line of Burton the lordship of Hincaster was held in 1374 by Peter de Ros and Thomas de Stirkeland, and in 1426 by Walter de Stirkeland, son of Sir Thomas, the rent and service of John Roos of Greenhead having been reserved by the feoffees of Sir Thomas Stirkeland, who at that time settled the remainder of Hincaster on Walter de Stirkeland and Dowse his wife. Thomas Strikland, knt., died in 1496 in possession of the manor, which he held of Thomas Parr, esq., by the service of a red rose. Presumably the manor has descended in the posterity of Sir Thomas.

~Records relating to the Barony of Kendale, Vol. II, pp. 168-176

• Records and Notes. ⁸⁵⁹
1426 John de Barton and William Maymorn, chaplains, grant to Walter de Stirkeland, son of Thomas de Stirkeland, knt., and to Dowse, his wife, the messuages, lands etc. which they had by the gift and feoffment of Walter de Stirkeland, knt., father of the said Thomas, in Hencastre, except the rents and services of John Roos of Greneheved and a pool called Hencastre Vyver, in Hencastre, to hold to Walter and Dowse and their male issue, remainder to the heirs male of the body of Thomas de Stirkeland, knt., great-grandfather of Walter etc. dated 20 September, 5 Henry VI. Orig. at Sizergh.

1437 Richard Garsdale, vicar of the church of Kyrkby in Kendale, Richard Broxton, Thomas Broxton and Thomas Warde, chaplains, grant to Thomas de Stirkeland, knt., and Mabel his wife the messuages and lands in Staynton, Over Wynder, Nether Wynder, Trostormond, Thorp and Sharrow which they had by Thomas's feoffment to hold to Thomas and Mabel and their issue. Raynald Dokwra to deliver seisin. Dated 10 November, 16 Henry VI; Orig. at Sizergh.

~Records relating to the Barony of Kendale: Volume II, pp. 168-176, 190-201

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁰⁵
Sir Thomas de Stirkeland, knight son and heir of Walter married Mabel, daughter of Sir John de Bethom in 1405, in the fifthe year of King Henry the Sixth he agreed that his son should marry Douce, daughter of Nicholas de Croft. Sir Thomas held amongst his estates a third part of a knight's fee of Thomas Lumley, and represented Westmorland in Parliament.

Sir Thomas bore the first and most honored of the English Standards at the Battle of Agincourt, the banner of St. George. He made a will before he went to battle in France about twenty-four years before his death. He was at the siege Harfleur and at the taking of the City of Rouen, as well as attending the Coronation of King Henry the Sixth.

~Sizergh Castle, Westmoreland & the Strickland Family, pp. 17-18

Thomas married Mabel de Beetham, daughter of Sir John de Beetham Knight and Margaret Tunstall, in Feb 1405 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England ¹⁶⁰.^,1405 (Mabel de Beetham was born about 1385 in Beetham, Kendal, Westmoreland, England and died after 1455 in Westmorland, England.)