Stradling Ancestry

m. 18 October (Lundy, The Peerage; World History Encyclopedia) or 1 November (Wikipedia) 1254 at the monastery of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain

She joined her husband on a Crusade.

After Eleanor died, he married Margaret of France.

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"Until 1322, Edward and Isabella's marriage appears to have been successful, but by the time Isabella left for France in 1325, it had deteriorated. Isabella appears to have disliked Hugh Despenser the Younger intensely.... Isabella was embarrassed that she had fled from Scottish armies three times during her marriage to Edward, and she blamed Hugh for the final occurrence in 1322. When Edward had negotiated the recent truce with Robert the Bruce, he had severely disadvantaged a range of noble families who owned land in Scotland, including the Beaumonts, close friends of Isabella. She was also angry about the arrest of her household and seizure of her lands in 1324. Finally, Edward had taken away her children and given custody of them to Hugh Despenser's wife. By February 1326 it was clear that Isabella was involved in a relationship with an exiled Marcher Lord, Roger Mortimer." Later that year, Isabella and Mortimer took forces and invaded England. Source: Wikipedia and the various sources therein.

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According to Jones, by 1316 the head of the Spradling family in Glamorgan, Wales, and Somerset, England, was EDWARD STRADLYNG, who was knighted in 1327 and married Ellen (Elena/Eleanor), daughter and heiress of Sir Gilbert Strongbow (brother to the earl of Pembroke), before 1317.

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His claim to the French throne through his mother's lineage (she was a daughter of the French king) was one of the initial factors of the long conflict known as the Hundred Years' War, which began 24 May 1337. He made the claim in response to King Philip VI of France taking Aquitaine (Sources: Intropedia and WikiPedia).

The Bubonic Plague (The Black Death) occurred during his reign.

Dwnn, p. 333 and Intropedia indicate John of Gaunt (below) being son of King Edward III.

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Dwnn, p. 334, indicates she is the mother of John of Gaunt below.

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She had been a mistress of John of Gaunt in the 1370s. He married her after his second wife died (Dwnn, p. xx.

"To his only surviving Beaufort nephew, Edmund, marquis of Dorset, he left the castle and lordship of Chirk and the manor of Canford with Poole in Dorset. His other kinsfolk, William the younger son of his half-brother Sir Thomas Swinford, an unidentified John 'bastard of Somerset', his own natural daughter Joan and her husband, Sir Edward Stradling, all received small legacies" (Hunt/Pantin/Southern, p. 425) where note 5 mentions "Joan Stradling" as "Beaufort's child" and mentions her "marriage with Sir Edward Stradling (c. 1389-1453) of St. Donat's, Glamorgan and Halsway, Somerset, in or before 1423 (Cal. Papal Registers, Letters, vii, 300; Cartae et Munimenta de Glamorgan, ed. G. T. Clark, 1910 ed., iv, 1580-5). Sir Henry Stradling, the eldest son of this marriage, was thirty years old when he succeeded his father in 1453 (Stradling Correspondence, ed. J. M. Traherne, pp. xviii-xx)."

G.E.C. and Hammond mention "Bishop Henry Beaufort's illegit. da. Joan, wife of Sir Edward Stradling" (p. 39).

"Henry fathered an illegitimate daughter, Jane Beaufort, in 1402, who some make Alice's daughter. Both Jane and her husband, Sir Edward Stradling, were named in Cardinal Beaufort's will. Their marriage about 1423 brought Sir Edward into the political orbit of his shrewd and assertive father-in-law, to whom he may have owed his appointment as chamberlain of South Wales in December 1423, a position he held until March 1437" (Griffiths). Hunt/Pantin/Southern, p. 425, note 5, mentions her "marriage with Sir Edward Stradling (c. 1389-1453) of St. Donat's, Glamorgan and Halsway, Somerset, in or before 1423 (Cal. Papal Registers, Letters, vii, 300; Cartae et Munimenta de Glamorgan, ed. G. T. Clark, 1910 ed., iv, 1580-5). Sir Henry Stradling, the eldest son of this marriage, was thirty years old when he succeeded his father in 1453 (Stradling Correspondence, ed. J. M. Traherne, pp. xviii-xx)."

Modern genealogists recognize a woman named Joan (or Jane) Beaufort (illegitimate daughter of Henry Beaufort) married to Sir Edward Stradling of St Donat's and identify her as the mother of Sir Henry Stradling. This is supported by multiple sources.

Hunt/Pantin/Southern, p. 425, note 5, mentions the marriage of his parents and adds "Sir Henry Stradling, the eldest son of this marriage, was thirty years old when he succeeded his father in 1453 (Stradling Correspondence, ed. J. M. Traherne, pp. xviii-xx)."

Dwnn mentions on note 4, sub-note 2 the following: "Sir Harry Stradling, Kt., married Elizabeth, sister to Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, in the time of Edward IV. He went to Jerusalem, and died at Cyprus on his return. In the year 1453, he was 30 years of age. Once, as he was passing from his Castle of St. Donats, Glamorganshire, to his house in Somersetshire, he was taken prisoner in the Bristol Channel, by Colyn Dolphyn, a pirate, and was compelled to pay 2,000 marks for his ransom."

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"Thomas Stradling died on the 8th of September, 1480, aged 24, having married Jane, daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, in the County of Glamorgan, Esquire" (Dwnn, p. 158, note 4, sub-note 1).