Of this branch, the first person mentioned is Hamon, a younger son of the first John le Strange, of Knockin. Which
Hamon, the 51st Henry III, for his attachment to that king in the time of this contention with his rebel barons, had bestowed on him the manors of Ellesmere and Stretton; which manor of Ellesmere he gave to this brother Roger when he went to the Holy Land, and died withouth issue.
This
Roger, for his loyalty to Henry III, had also a grand of divers lands, and was feveral times sheriff of Yorkshire; and was a man of great eminence and confequence in his time. He married Maud, widow of Roger de Moubray, and one of the daughters and coheirs of William Beauchamp, of Bedford, by whom he had
Roger lord Strange of Ellesmere, who slew Leoline, last prince of Wales, and cut of his head; and became a person of much eminence, bearing great rule in Wales, at Buleth Castle.
The name of Roger le Strange, of Ellesmere, is mentioned in the Lists of Summons to Parliament, the 23th, 24th, and 25th Edward I, and also among those barons and great men, who, the 29th Edward I, subscribed that letters to the pope, asserting the independence the king of England; and that he was to answer no tribunal under Heaven for the right of the crown which, with the help of God, they would maintain and defend against all men.