Amabel Strange

CHETWODE, Sir John (d.1412), of Chetwode, Bucks. and Warkworth, Northants., son of Sir Nicholas Chetwode (d.1369) of Chetwode by Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Lyons† of Warkworth.

m. (1) bef. 1371, Mary (fl. 1391), 1s. 1da.; (2) bef. 1393 Amabel, (d. 8 Sept. 1430), da. of Sir Thomas Green of Green’s Norton, Northants., 1s. 1da.1 Kntd. bef. Oct. 1386.

At the time of his death, which occurred on 2 Apr. 1412, Chetwode was holding office as verderer of Whittlewood forest. The monumental brass placed over his grave in Warkworth church depicts him as wearing armour, his feet resting on a lion, his hands lifted as in prayer. The offspring of his first marriage — John and Margery (the wife of John Browning (1397-1420), son of John Browning* of Melbury Sampford, Dorset) — both died in 1420, leaving as heir to the Chetwode estates their half-brother (Sir) Thomas Chetwode. A few years after Sir John’s death, his widow Amabel married Thomas Strange*.5

http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1386-1421/member/chetwode-sir-john...

Thomas Strange’s marriage to Amabel, niece of Richard II’s unpopular favourite, Sir Henry Green*, and widow of Sir John Chetwode, probably took place before his appointment as escheator of Northamptonshire in 1418, as it was to her that he owed his influence in the county.

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/s...

References

• The Journal of American History, Volume 12 GoogleBooks
• The Baronetage of England:: Containing a Genealogical and ..., Volume 2 By Richard Johnson, Edward Kimber. Page 536 GoogleBooks