Rodger DE SOMERY, Lord Dudley

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Also Known As: de Someri

Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999Page: 136-2

The site of Dudley Castle lay abandoned after it was destroyed by Henry II when Gervase de Paynel supported the uprising of Prince Henry. In the mid-thirteenth century Roger Somery began to rebuild. He died in 1272 before the works were anything like complete, and they were carried on by his son, John, said to have been one of the most hated feudal lords in the west Midlands. [Castles of Britain and Ireland, p. 142]

Rodger married Nicole D'ALBINY. Nicole (daughter of William D'ALBINY, Earl of Arundel D'Aubigny and Mabel of Chester) was born Abt 1193, Barrow On Soar, Leicestershire, England; died Bef 1254, Dudley Castle, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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Joan married John IV LE STRANGE. John (son of John III LE STRANGE and Lucy DE TREGOZ) was born Abt 1226, Cheswardine, Shropshire, England; died 1276, Knockin, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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1299 "Summoned" as 1st Baronet Lord Strange of Knockin

The Barony of Strange of Hunstanton started as a branch of the original Strange (Le Strange) family and the Barony of Knockin (Knockyn) in Shropshire, on the border (frontier or "marches") of Wales. The Strange family was one of those charged with containing the border area with the wild Celts of Wales, who would revolt against the Normans periodically. Hunstanton is in Norfolk, and Strange (Le Strange) lines were there from the generation or two before the Norman conquest in 1066. The Le Stranges are associated with the Celtic-Norman counts and Dukes of Brittany.

John married Maud D'EIVILLE. Maud was born 1251, Ellesmere, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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2nd Lord of Knockin Le Strange

This John, husband of Isolda, was the 6th John in a row, and 2nd Lord Le Strange of Knockin. His son John was John 7th and 3rd Lord. John VI's son Roger succeeded his brother as 4th Lord of Knockin.

John married Isolda DE WALTON Abt 1299, Knockin, Shropshire, England. Isolda (daughter of John DE WALTON and Isabel SHIRLEY) was born Abt 1277, Ellesmere, Shropshire, England; died Aft 1311. [Group Sheet]