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- Eyton shows that this grant must have been made not later than January 1174, as the Chartulary from which it is quoted contains also a recital and confirmation of it, made at the petition of John le Strange by William Turbus, Bishop of Norwich, who died on January 16, 1174. The grant proves that three generations previously Edgefield had been in the possession of Ralph de Hunstanton, and since then successively in that of his sons, Simon and Reginald le Brun, after whom it came to John le Strange as the direct heir. Simon and Reginald must therefore have died without issue, and John must have been the son of their sister, not named in this deed, but whose name, Matilda, is mentioned by John in his grant to the Priory of Castleacre. Ralph de Hunstanton, the maternal grandfather of John le Strange (I), is undoubtedly the same as Ralph fitz Herluin, recorded in Domesday as a vassal of Roger Bigod, holding land under him at Hunstanton and Tottington. (Le Strange Records, page 12)
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