Haymon le Strange, seigneur de Beyrouth

From Charles Cawley http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3L-O.htm#Ham...

[listed as second son (after John) of John III Le Strange and Lucy. Other younger siblings included Roger, Robert, Alice and Hawise.]

HAMO le Strange (-[1274/75]). "Hamo Extraneus with consent of Sir John his father" donated his part of the wood at Wombridge to Wombridge priory by charter dated to [1247/59])[526]. He may have accompanied Edward, son of Henry III King of England, on his crusade to Palestine in 1271. Rüdt-Collenberg says that Hamo Lestrange of Ellesmere went to Palestine in 1270/71[527]. According to the Complete Peerage, Hamo was "prominent in the king's service until his death, probably in the Holy Land, early in 1274/5"[528]. On his deathbed, he placed his wife and the fief of Beirut under the protection of the Mameluk Sultan Baibars[529].

m (21 Mar 1272) as her second husband, ISABELLE Ibelin Lady of Beirut, widow of HUGUES II King of Cyprus, daughter of JEAN Ibelin Lord of Beirut & his wife Alice of Athens ([1252]-[1282/before Nov 1283]). The Lignages d'Outremer name "Yzabeau la fille dou seignor de Baruth" as the wife of an unnamed person who died at the age of 14[530]. The paragraph in question deals with the family of the kings of Cyprus, and it is most likely that words have been omitted from the text which would clarify that the husband in question was Hugues II King of Cyprus. This is confirmed by another manuscript of the Lignages which names "Ysabeau et Eschive" as the two daughters of Jean son of "Balian…sire de Baruth" & his wife, stating that Isabelle married firstly "Huge, le fis de Henri roy de Chipre, qui morut de 14 ans", secondly "un Englés…Heimon Lestrange" and thirdly "Guille Barlais" and died without heirs[531].

Isabelle returned from Cyprus to Beirut after the death of her first husband. She married thirdly (1276) Nicolas Alaman titular Lord of Caesarea (-murdered Jun 1277). After the death of her second husband, Hugues III King of Cyprus and Jerusalem took her to Cyprus to marry her third husband, but was obliged to return her to Beirut in 1277 in view of the deathbed agreement made by her second husband[532]. She married fourthly (after 1277) as his first wife, Guillaume Barlais, son of --- (-[1305/06]).

SOURCS

• [526] Eyton (1859), Vol. IX, p. 24, citing Wombridge Chartulary, tit. Le Prioris, no. IX.
• [527] Rüdt-Collenberg, W. H. (1979) 'Les Ibelins aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles, Généalogie compilée principalement selon les registres du Vatican', Epeteris tou Kentrou Epistemonikon Ereunon IX, 1977-1979 (Nicosia), reprinted in Familles de l'Orient latin XIIe-XIVe siècles (Variorum Reprints, London, 1983), p. 136, footnote 63.
• [528] CP XII/1, p. 351, footnote c.
• [529] Runciman, S. (1951, 1952 and 1954) A History of the Crusades, Vols. 1-3 (Penguin Books, 1978), Vol. 3, p. 342.
• [530] Nielen, M.-A. (ed.) (2003) Lignages d'Outremer (Paris), Le Vaticanus Latinus 4789, CCC.XXXIII, p. 90.
• [531] Lignages d'Outremer, Le Vaticanus Latinus 4789, CCC.XXXVII, p. 98.
• [532] Runciman (1978), Vol. 3, p. 342, and Rüdt-Collenberg (1979), p. 136.

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=----------------------------------= 1/25/1271, Letters of protection issued to Hamon and Robert, going beyond seas in aid of the Holy Land. (S) CPRs.

8/19/1270 from Dover, Lord Edward and his army left on the 8th crusade.

Robert and his older brother Hamon went on crusade with Prince Edward; leaving after the Prince. [Hamon, who brought 11 knights with him, died on crusade. While on crusade Hamon married Isabelle d’Ybelin, Queen of Cyprus.]

(S) Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Banks, 1844, P421. (S) The Battle Abbey Roll, Abbey, 1889, P3. (S) A Chronicle of the Early Le Stranges, Le Strange, 1916.

For a detailed biography of Hamon Le Srange: http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/edwin-williams/lestrange-reco...