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Persoonlijke gegevens Guy I le Strange 

• Hij is geboren rond 1048 in Norfolk, England.
• Hij is overleden rond 1105 in London, Middlesex, England.

Gezin van Guy I le Strange

Hij heeft/had een relatie met Mellette of Peverel.

Kind(eren):

1. Roland le Strange  ± 1096-± 1158 

Notities over Guy I le Strange

"Le Strange " is an English surname: it's a habitational name from all parts of England. For example, in Cheshire, Oxfordshire, and North Yorkshire, have villages named in Old English as æppeltun (‘orchard’ -- literally ‘apple enclosure’). The family motto, translated, means, "To God be thanks." Among the family's descendants is Abraham Lincoln. (And us.)
The "Le Strange" surname was first found in Norfolk where they were anciently seated as Lords of the Manor of Knockyn. The Coat of Arms: A silver shield with two red lions passant guardant.
Our genealogy starts with a family legend: Most of the printed genealogies say that the Le Strange family sprang from a mythical Duke of Brittany, whose younger son, Guy, settled in England. It traces back to HOEL LE STRANGE, born before 1022. Hoel married a woman named from the HAWSIE clan. She was born about 1026. They had a son, named GUY LE STRANGE, born in 1048, who lived in Norfolk, England and died in 1105 in London, England.
The le Strange legend that has been repeated through successive generations can be found in part of an epic tale, the Romance of Fouke le fitz Warine. This French prose which was written by an unknown author in traditional trouverian style of the 13th century, was translated and reproduced in early medieval times for its popularity gained by the declared outlaw Fulk who is otherwise known as Fulk the son of Warine Ii. It is a story set in the 11th century A.D. wherein it begins with a certain lady, Mellette, who features as the outlaw's grandmother in her youth, she was united with her husband Guy of Metz, whom otherwise was known in France from whence he came, as Guarine or Warine de Metz.
The chapter conveys how the le Strange family was founded, prior to the Warines, when Mellette, a beautiful damsel, has a jousting tournament arranged for by her wealthy uncle, William Peverel. This was held in the time of William the Conqueror, in 1083 at his Castle Peveril in the Peak of Derbyshire, England (shown above), and this is where she was expected to find a suitable husband, to which she replied:
"Sire" no knight is there in all the world that I would take for the sake of riches and the honour of this land but if ever I take such a one he shall be handsome and courteous and accomplished and the most valiant of his order in all Christendom. Of riches I make no account, for truly can I say that he is rich who has that which his heart desires" from: Mellette, 'The Romance of Fouk le fitz Warine'.
Noble-men eager to win her as their bride together with dowry including the attractive white tower of white town, known as Whittington Castle Shropshire, came from every corner; Scotland, Wales and France. The two most salubrious guests, Owen Prince of Wales, and Eneas, Prince of Scotland, brought 200 knights along, - the Duke of Burgundy outnumbered them with a hundred more. Ydromor, Prince of Galloway came with a modest 150 men, but Guy (Guarine de Metz France ), son of John, Duke of Brittany, (Johan duc de la Petite-Bretagene), came with only a hundred, plus his 9 brothers.
Ultimately, Guy, with his life spared, victoriously claimed his wife, Mellette, whom already expressed her interest in him by sending over her glove. It continues... "..... Guy remained in England: And conquered, by the force of his sword, many beautiful lands, and so was named Guy le Strange ...." .
Unfortunately, that's all made up by storytellers from the Middle Ages. The details of this story stamp it as a romance—for instance, there were no ‘dukes’ but ‘counts’ of Brittany in the twelfth century, and none of them was called John, nor had ten sons. The legend, however, thus started into existence in the thirteenth century, and the wide acceptance of this legendary history of the family is due Leland’s ‘Collectanea’, published in 1612, derived from an English version of the French romance of Fulk fitz Warin. The story quoted by Leland is to the effect that John, Duke of Brittany, had ten sons, whom he sent to a tournament, proclaimed at the Castle of the Peak by William Peverel of Whittington, whose niece and heiress, Melette, together with the lands of Whittington, was to be the prize of the victor; that the lady was won and duly espoused by Guarin de Metz, and after the espousals that the nine elder sons of the Duke of Brittany returned home, while the youngest remained in England and acquired many fair lands by his sword, and was called ‘Gwy le Estraunge e de ly vindrent tous les grantz seignurs de Engleterre qe ont le sournom de Estraunge.’
Now here's the truth: The first recorded Le Strange was ROLAND LE STRANGE - who was born about 1096, lived in Cheswardine, Shropshire, England and died before 1158. Roland married MATILDA LE BRUN about 1141 while living in Cheswardine, Shropshire, England. Matilda was born about 1100, lived in Cheswardine, Shropshire, England. She was the daughter of Ralph Fitzherlewin Hunstanton Brun and Helewisa de Plaiz.

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