LESTRANGE (STRANGE), Sir Nicholas (by 1517-80), of Hunstanton, Norf.

Family and Education

b. by 1517, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Lestrange of Hunstanton by Anne, da. of Nicholas, 1st Baron Vaux; bro. of Richard. m. (1) Ellen, da. of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton, Northants., 3s. 2da.; (2) 1547, Catherine, da. of John Hyde of Hyde, Dorset, wid. of Nicholas Mynn of Fransham, Norf., ?s.p. suc. fa. 1545. Kntd. 28 Sept. 1547.DNB (Lestrange, Sir Thomas); Blomefield, Norf. x. 318; Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 272; LP Hen. VIII, xx(1), p. 423; Fac. Off. Mar. Lics. (Harl. Soc. xxiv), 9; G. A. Carthew, Hundred of Launditch, ii. 481; Lit. Remains Ed. VI, Nichols (Roxburghe Club), i. 219.

Offices Held

Servant, poss. of 3rd Duke of Norfolk by 1538, of 4th Duke by 1555.

J.p. Norf. 1538 – 54, 1559 – 71, rest. 1579; steward, manors of Mary, Duchess of Richmond 1547; sheriff, Norf., Suff. 1548 – 49; muster marshal of army in Scotland 1559 – 60; chamberlain to Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk by 1559 – 72; freeman, King’s Lynn 1566; feoffee of the Howard estates 1568.CPR, 1547–8, p. 79, 87; A. H. Smith thesis, 169, 187, app. II; Lansd. 4, f. 126; Blomefield, x. 319; Cal. Freemen of Lynn (Norf. and Norwich Arch. Soc. 1913), p. 106.

Parlimentarian

LESTRANGE (STRANGE), Sir Nicholas (1511/13-80), of Hunstanton, Norf.

Main residence: Hunstanton, Norf.

Author

R.V.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

LESTRANGE (STRANGE), Sir Nicholas (by 1517-80)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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