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 2o8 DERBY Knaresborough Castle 3 Oct. 1485; Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lan- caster North of Trent i Oct. i486. In consequence of his marriage he was sum. to Pari, from 15 Nov. (1482) 22 Edw. IV to 26 Jan. (1496/7) 12 Hen. VII, by writs directed Georgia Stanley de la Strange, whereby he became LORD STRANGE.(') He was in hostage to King Richard III, and ran great risk of his life through his father's treachery to that King. By Henry VII he was made Constable of Wicklow Castle Feb. 1485/6; K.G. in May 1487; and P.C. He m., before 26 Feb. 148 1, Joan, only da. and h. of John (le Strange), Lord Strange (of Knokin), by Jacquette (sister of Elizabeth, Queen Consort of Edward IV), da. of Richard (Wid- ville), Earl Rivers, which Joan, on her father's death, 1 5 Oct. 1477, became suojure Baroness Strange (of Knokin), and Mohun (of Dunster). He d. v.p., 4 or 5 Dec. 1503, aged about 43 (being said to have been poisoned at a banquet),('') at Derby House,('=) St. Paul's Wharf, London, and was bur. (with his mother) at St. James's, Garlickhithe. His widow d. 20 Mar. 1 5 13/4, "in an inner high chamber" at Colham Green, Midx. Will dat. 6 July I5i3,('') pr- 3 May 15 14. Inq. p. m. at Yeovil, Somerset, 26 Oct. 1514.] XI. 1504. 2. Thomas (Stanley), Earl of Derby, <yc., grandson and h., being s. and h. of George (Stanley), Lord Strange (of Knokin) and Joan his wife, abovenamed. He was b. before 1485; K.B. 31 Oct. 1494; had spec. lie. of entry, without proof of age and without livery, upon all the lands of his inheritance, 15 Mar. (1503/4) 19 Hen. VII. (') On 20 Mar. 151 3/4 (some 10 years after he had sue. to the Earldom, i^c), he sue. his mother as Lord Strange (of Knokin), and Mohun (of Dunster), and had livery of her lands 28 Nov. 1 5 14. He attended King Henry VIII in the French expedition in 1513, was at the battle of Spurs 18 Aug. 15 13, and attended the Emperor Charles V at Dover in 1 520; P.C. 1 520; admitted Gray's Inn 1 520. He was (*) There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. ('') (Slew's Annals, p. 484). He was present at a chapter of the Order of the Garter, 7 May 1503, but at the next recorded meeting, 5 May 1504, a mass for the dead was celebrated for him, and his banner, sword, and helmet were presented at the altar. (Black Book, as in Anstis's Register of the Garter, vol. i, pp. 241-246). Anstis calls attention to the wrong date given for his death, Dec. 1497, which has been adopted in Weaver's Fun. Mon., Diet. Nat. Biog. (referring to Seacome's Memoirs of the House of Stanley), and elsewhere. It may have originated with the metrical chronicle of the House of Stanley, written about 1562, by Stanley, Bishop of Sodor and Man. V.G. ('=)This house was exchanged in 1552 by his grandson, the 3rd Earl, for Crown lands near Knowsley, and was granted by Queen Mary to the College of Heralds, the present (19 15) College being built after the Fire of London on the same site. {^) Particulars of a nuncupative will said to have been made on her death-bed in favour of Sir William Compton are given in the Patent Roll, 6 Hen. VIII, p. 2, m. 17. V.G. (<^) Duchy of Lane. Records, class xi, reg. 21, f. 40. V.G.