Elizabeth Strangeways

Not the same as Elizabeth Ellerker

Elizabeth Eure

• Born: 1426 in Bradley Manor, Wolsingham, Durham, England
• Died: 13 March 1482
• Daughter of Robert Eure and Elizabeth Mallory
• Wife of William Bulmer — married 28 Apr 1431 (son of Ralph Bulmer and Margaret Hilton)
• Wife of James Strangeways — married before 1468 in Yorkshire, England (Son of James Strangeways and Joan Orrell)

She married 2nd romSir James Strangeways, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Speaker of the House of Commons, Chief Justice of Durham. James Strangways died shortly before 20 August 1480. His first wife had died about 1460, and between 1463 and 1468 he had married Elizabeth Bulmer, née Eure, who died in March 1482.

Children:

1. Ralph Eure
2. Edward Eure, Doctor of the law
3. Felice Eure, married William Aske

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Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Eure-12

Durham University Library: Archives and Special Collections
1.5.Spec.38 14 May [1431]
Language: English
Agreement between Ralph Bulmer esquire and Roger Thornton esquire about Thornton's mortgage in Bulmer's lands in Simonside and Nesbit, with £40 to be paid by Robert Eure esquire, with Emery Heryng, William Hoton, and John of Chester who, acting as sureties, on the advice of Robert Whelpington, were to make estate of the said land to his son and heir William and to Elizabeth daughter of the said Robert Eure, as per their marriage settlement made on 28 April 9 Henry VI [1431].
Sealed with his seal but, as it is “nought of armes nor autentik”, he has also had the seal of the official of Durham added.
Date: 14 May 9 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 303 x 96 mm
Seal: [selaing tongue and wrapping tie] stubs
Copy: DCD Cart. IV, f.242v.

1.5.Spec.39 12 January [1442]
Grant by Ralph Bulmer lord of Wilton in Cleveland miles to his son William Bulmer and his wife Elizabeth all his lands etc in the vill of Simonside near Jarrow in Co Durham, and also the right to receive annually a rent of £3 from the manor of Nesbit in the wapentake of Sadberge, with reversion to Ralph and his heirs.
Witnesses: Alexander Nevill miles, Robert Claxton armiger, John Claxton armiger, Jacob Tocotez, Thomas Lambert, Ralph Kirkby chaplain vicar of Hesilden.
Date: Thorpbulmer, 12 January 20 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m, indented head, zig-zag
Size: 289 X 147mm
Seal: G&B No.456, on a parchment tag, through 1 slit in a turnup
Copy: DCD Cart. IV, f.242v-243r.

1.5.Spec.40 14 January [1442]
Appointment by Ralph Bulmer lord of Wilton miles of Robert Thormanby and Richard Kirkby chaplain, as his attornies to deliver seisin of the lands of Simonside near Jarrow in County Durham and an annual rent of £3 from the manor of Nesbit in the wapentake of Sadberge to his son William Bulmer and his wife Elizabeth.
Witnesses: Alexander Nevill miles, Robert Claxton armiger, John Claxton armiger, Jacob Tocotez, Thomas Lambart, Richard Kirkby chaplain vicar of Hesilden.
Date: Thorpbulmer, 14 January 20 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 291 x 111mm
Seal: G&B No.456, on a parchment tag, through 1 slit in a turnup
Copy: DCD Cart. IV, f.243r.

1.5.Spec.41 15 February [1464]
Grant by John Chester to Elizabeth, wife of James Strangways miles, former wife of William Bulmer miles, of all his lands and rents in the vill and territory of Simonside, formerly given to him and the deceased Adomar Heryng and William Hoton by the feoffment of Ralph Bulmer miles, for the duration of her life, with reversion to the rightful heirs of Ralph Bulmer, and he has appointed as his attorneys Ralph Eure and John Dickson (Dicson) chaplain to deliver seisin to Elizabeth.
Witnesses: Robert Claxton and Christopher Conyers of Sockburn milites, Richard Clervaux, John Catterick, John Layton of Saxhow armigeres.
Date: Simonside, 15 February 3 Edward IV.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 120 x 200mm
Seal: G&B No.580, on a parchment tag, through a slit in a turnup
Copy: DCD Cart. IV, f.243r-v.

References

• Cokayne, George Edward. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1910. Vol 2. Pg. 418. < Archive.org [1] 6. Sir William Bulmer, of Wilton, tfc, s. and h., aged 20 and more at his father's death. He m. (cont. 28 Apr. 1431, to "wed afore Midsomer next commyng"),(^) Elizabeth, da. of Robert Eure, of Bradley, CO. Durham, by Elizabeth, said to have been da. and h. of R. Mallory. He d. in 1463. Admon. 14 Nov. 1463 to his widow. She d. 13 or 14 Mar. 1481/2. C*)
• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. V. page 69. JAMES STRANGEWAYS, Knt., married (1st) before 27 Sept. 1431 ELIZABETH DARCY (living 1 Sept. 1458, and died before Nov. 1461), by whom he had eleven sons, Richard, Knt., James, William, Philip, George (clerk), Christopher, Henry, John, Robert, Thomas, and Thomas (2nd of name), and four daughters, Margery (wife of John Ingleby and Richard Welles, Knt., Lord Welles and Willoughby, Eleanor (wife of Edmund Mauleverer), Joan, and Elizabeth (wife of Marmaduke Clervaux). He (James Strangeways), married before 1468 (as his second wife) Elizabeth Eure. Sir James Strangeways died testate shortly before 20 August 1480. His widow, Elizabeth, died 13 (or 14) March 1482.
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3016.htm#...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Strangeways-13
• https://storah.com/portfolio_page/harlsey-castle-northallerton/ Harsley Castle was built by Sir James Strangways, a judge of Common Pleas who purchased the manor in 1423. His son James was High Sherriff of Yorkshire and Speaker of the House of Commons. The family’s fortunes continued to prosper when later generations profited from the dissolution of the monasteries at Mount Grace and Rievaulx. Harlsey Castle probably fell into disuse after the manor was forfeited to the Crown in the C16. The land is now farmed by the Kirk family.