Nicholas L'Estrange
Sir Nicholas le Strange (1511 – 19 February 1580) was an English Member of Parliament (MP).
The eldest son of Sir Thomas Le Strange, he succeeded his father in 1545 and was knighted in 1547.
He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Norfolk for 1538-47, 1558/59-71 and from 1579 for life and High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for 1548-49. He was appointed as steward of the manors of the Duchess of Richmond in 1546, and also Chamberlain to the Duke of Norfolk.[1]
Almost certainly at Norfolk's nomination, he was elected MP for the County of Norfolk in the Parliament of 1547, for King's Lynn in 1555 and Castle Rising in 1558,1559,1563 and 1571. (His brother, Richard, also sat as an MP for boroughs under the Duke of Norfolk's influence in 1559 and 1563.) He was not elected to Parliament again after Norfolk's fall in 1572.[1]
He married twice: firstly in 1528 Eleanor, daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton, Northamptonshire with whom he had three sons and two daughters and secondly Catherine, the daughter of John Hyde of Hyde, Dorset and widow of Nicholas Mynn of Great Fransham, Norfolk. He was buried 19 February 1580 at Sedgeford, Norfolk. Sir Hamon le Strange (1583 - 1654), also an MP, was a descendant of this Nicholas through his son Hamon, who died soon after him, and his grandson Nicholas (buried 1592).[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 LESTRANGE (STRANGE), Sir Nicholas (1511/13-80), of Hunstanton, Norf.
- ↑ 'Smethdon Hundred: Hunstanton Lordship', An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 10 (1809), pp. 312-328. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78686 Date accessed: 18 June 2014.
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1930)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Deed of Appointment as Steward to Mary, Duchess of Richmond in Norfolk Record Office (ref: NG4)
- Marriage settlement dated June 1528 states he "will be 21 years in January 1532" (ref: Norfolk Record Office A42)