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St Mary's Church, Hunstanton, Norfolk, Easter Selulchre monument of Henry Le Strange (died 1485), who married Catherine Drury, a daughter of Roger Drury of Besthorpe.

Based on the inscription (and expanded by Francis Blomefield, 'Smethdon Hundred: Hunstanton Lordship', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 312-328 [1]) the ancestry of Henry Le Strange (died 1485) is as follows:

• Lord John L'Strange, lord of Knockin and Mawin, who bore arms Gules, two lions passant argent
• Hamon (d.1316) (younger brother), married Margaret Vernon of Mottron (blood relative and heiress to Richard Vernon) Blofield: "Margaret Vernon, daughter of Sir Ralph Vernon of Motran in Cheshire, by Elizabeth Brian de St. Peter his wife, daughter of Sir Brian de St. Peter, and heiress of Richard Vernun, descended from the Lords Vernon, of Shipbrook, in Cheshire". In 1309 he was enfeoffed with the manor of Hunstanton by his brother Lord John L'Strange (per Blomfield). He bore arms Gules, two lions passant argent a bendlet sable overall for difference (per Blomfield)
  • Hamon Le Strange, son and heir, married Katherine Camois daughter of Lord John Camois. He was buried at Hunstanton;
    • John Le Strange, son and heir, married a lady named Eleanor (i.e. Alianore Walkfare, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Walkfare by his wife .... Morieux, the daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Morieux, of Suffolk, Constable of the Tower of London (per Blomfield)) (Arms of Morieux, as shown quartered by L'Estrange on the monument, but with 9 billets, i.e. billetée[2]: Gules, on a bend argent seven billets sable (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.706)) who was blood relative and heiress to Richard Walkfare (who was himself a blood relative and heir to Sir Thomas Morieux). His arms were: Two lions and a bendlet over all (per Blomfield).
      • John Le Strange, son and heir, married Alice Beman, also mother of his children, a blood relative and heir to John Pyke and John Rushbrook. (i.e. he married Alice Beman, daughter and heir of Nicholas Beman, by Maud Pike his wife, daughter and heir of John Pike, by Eleanore de Rushbrook his wife, daughter and heir of Sir William de Rushbrook, of Suffolk (per Blomfield))
        • Roger Le Strange, son and heir, who married a certain Jane, called in some writings, Jane Bebe (per Blomfield)
          • John Le Strange, son and heir,
          • Henry Le Strange (d.1485), brother and heir, who married Catherine Drury, a daughter of Roger Drury of Besthorpe. His will is dated in 1483, wherein he desires to be buried in the chancel of Hunstanton Church, by the north wall, appoints Catharine Drury his wife, and Roger Drury, of Haustead, Esq. in Suffolk, her father, executors, &c. and died seized of manors in Hunstanton, Holm, Ringsted, Hitcham, Sedgford, &c. Norfolk; and of Pakenham, and Stow Langtoft in Suffolk, &c. appoints masses to be said for the souls of Sir Hugh, and Sir Thomas de Morieux, knights.
            • Sir Roger L'Estrange (c.1446-1506), son and heir, married Amy Heydon (d.1509) a daughter of Henry Heydon (d.1503) of Baconsthorpe, died without surviving issue. His chest tomb topped by a monumental brass effigy survives in Hunstanton Church.
            • Robert L'Estrange, brother and heir.
              

In 1629 Nicholas L'Estrange of Hunstanton was created a baronet (see w:L'Estrange baronets), and dropped the bend for difference in his arms, reverting to the undifferenced arms of the senior line. (per Blomfield)