Sir Thomas Le Strange

In 1536 Sir Thomas Le Strange was appointed to attend on the King's person during the Pilgrimage of Grace, and to bring fifty men with him; in July of that year, he was placed on the commission to inquire into the revenues of the wealthy abbey of Walsingham, near his own Norfolk estate.

It is to his credit that, though a personal friend of the King, and employed on business connected with the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Sir Thomas does not appear to have used his influence at court to secure for himself any church lands whatever.

[9] After Henry Le Strange's death, Katherine married secondly as his second wife Sir Robert Radcliffe of Hunstanton.

[10][11][6] Sir Thomas Le Strange's sister Katherine (d. 2 February 1558[12]) married 1) Sir Hugh Hastings of Elsing in Norfolk, knight (d. 9 December 1540), on 24 April 1523, and had by him three children, John (27 July 1531 – 8 January 1542) and the two daughters Anne (born 24 February 1529) and Elizabeth (6 September 1532 – 1580);[7][13] and 2) Thomas Gawdy (d.1556), Serjeant-at-law.

In 1519, when Anne gave birth to her third or fourth child at Hunstanton, her own mother was dead and her mother-in-law had remarried and moved away, leaving it to two of her husband’s aunts, Elizabeth Radcliffe, Lady Woodhouse (the daughter of Sir Thomas’s grandmother by her second husband) and Anne Banyard, to attend her for the three weeks leading up to the birth.