Category:Strange (of Blackmere, Shropshire) arms

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Strange (of Blackmere) (now "Blakemere") (Blakemere Castle) in the parish of Whitchurch, Shropshire, a cadet branch of Strange of Knokyn, being descended from Robert Le Strange (d.1276) of Blackmere in the parish of Whitchurch (which manor of Whitchurch he inherited from his wife Eleanor de Blancminster ("White Church")), a younger son of John Le Strange III (d.1269) of Knokyn (w:Knockin Castle), Shropshire, the grandfather of w:John le Strange, 1st Baron Strange of Knockyn (c. 1254–1309) (cr.1299). Richard Talbot, 4th Baron Talbot (c. 1361–1396) married Ankaret le Strange, suo jure 7th Baroness Strange of Blackmere (1361–1413), daughter of John le Strange, 4th Baron Strange of Blackmere (1332–1361). (Source: Cokayne, G. E. & Geoffrey H. White, eds. (1953). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times, volume XII part 1: Skelmersdale to Towton, Vol. 12.1 (2nd ed.), London: The St. Catherine Press, pp.341-52). The site of Blakemere Castle is situated 2 km N-E of the parish Church of St Alkmund in the town of Whitchurch, the third edifice built on the site of the original Norman "White Church" or "Blanc Minster" . The Talbots sold the manor in 1590 and by 1695 the manor house was in ruins. The site today is represented by a roughly squared, dry, moat about 60 metres by 60 metres. The moat adjoins Blakemere pool. The deer park was enclosed post-1590 after the Talbots' sale of the site. (Source: /www.parksandgardens.org [1])