Family and Education
b. 1511 /13, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Lestrange of Hunstanton by Anne, da. of Sir Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux, of Great Harrowden, Northants.; bro. of Richard. m. (1) Ellen, da. of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton, Northants., 3s. 2da.; (2) lic. 7 Mar. 1547, Catherine da. of John Hyde of Hyde, Dorset, wid. of Nicholas Mynn of Great Fransham, Norf. suc. fa. 16 Jan. 1545. Kntd. 28 Sept. 1547.Aged 39 in the year 1551, R. C. Strong, Hans Eworth, 21. Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 272; Blomefield, Norf. x. 318; DNB (Lestrange, Sir Thomas); LP Hen. VIII, xx; Mar. Lic. Fac. Off. (Harl. Soc. xxiv), 9; G. A. Carthew, Hundred of Launditch, ii. 481.
Offices Held
?Servant of Thomas, 3rd Duke of Norfolk by 1538; member, household of Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk by 1555, chamberlain by 1559 – 72; j.p. Norf. 1538 – 47,1558/59, 1579 – d.; steward, manors of Mary, Duchess of Richmond 1547; sheriff, Norf. and Suff. 1548 – 49; commr. relief Norf. 1550; muster marshal, army in Scotland 1559–60.
Main residence: Hunstanton, Norf.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
LESTRANGE (STRANGE), Sir Nicholas (1511/13-80)
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Oxford 1644
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