Giles Strangways (1528–1562)

[1] He was the eldest son of Sir Henry Strangways (died 1544), (who died during the lifetime of his own father, Giles Strangways, at the Siege of Boulogne), and his wife Margaret Manners, a daughter of George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros (c.1470-1513) of Helmsley or Hamlake Castle in Yorkshire, and a sister of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (c.1492-1543).

He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was knighted in 1549.

Sometime after 1545 he and Joan re-built the tudor period Melbury House.

Joan later married Sir John Young MP, of The Great House, Bristol, and her effigy is included in her monument to herself and both husbands in Bristol Cathedral with the following inscription:[3] She was in later life a defendant in the Case of the Swans.

By Joan he had four sons and two daughters: He died in 1562 and was buried at Melbury Sampford.