The second creation came in 1299 when John le Strange V was summoned to the
House of Lords by a writ directed to
Johanni Lestraunge de Knokyn, by which he is deemed to have become
Lord Strange. This creation is referred to as
Baron Strange de Knokyn or
Baron Strange of Knokyn (
aliter Knokin or Knockin, etc.), named after his seat of
Knockin Castle in Shropshire, which thus distinguishes it from the earlier 1295 barony, which was still extant on its creation. He was the eldest son and heir of John le Strange IV of Knockin, the eldest son of John le Strange III of Knockin, and was therefore the nephew of the baron of the 1295 creation.
Hamo le Strange, younger brother of the 2nd Baron, founded the family of Le Strange of
Hunstanton, Norfolk (which ancestral manor was given to him by the 2nd Baron in 1309), and bore his paternal arms differenced by a bendlet sable. (See
L'Estrange baronets of Hunstanton, created in 1629, which male line continued until 1762)). Joan le Strange,
suo jure 9th Baroness, daughter and heiress of the 8th Baron who died without male issue, married
George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange, son of
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, who was summoned to Parliament as Lord Strange in her right. Her son Thomas Stanley succeeded as both 2nd Earl of Derby and 10th Baron Strange. The titles remained united until the death of his great-grandson, the fifth Earl and 13th Baron, in 1594. The earldom was inherited by his younger brother, the sixth Earl, while the barony of Strange (as well as the baronies of Mohun of Dunster and Stanley, also held by the Earl) fell into
abeyance between the late Earl's three daughters Lady Anne, Lady Frances and Lady Elizabeth (however, the sixth Earl of Derby erroneously assumed the barony of Strange - see below). The barony of Strange remained in abeyance for the next 327 years. However, the abeyance was terminated in 1921 in favour of
Elizabeth Frances Philipps, Viscountess St Davids, who became the fourteenth Baroness. She was the second wife of
John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids. The abeyance of the ancient baronies of
Hungerford and
de Moleyns was terminated at the same time in her favour. On 31 July 1963, the
Peerage Act 1963 came into effect, which, among other things, enabled women to sit and vote in the House of Lords by virtue of an hereditary peerage. Following the passage of the Act, Lady St Davids applied for a
writ of summons to the House of Lords in right of her Strange barony, which was subsequently issued to her, and she took her seat in the House on 19 November 1963 as the first female peer to do so under the provision of the
Peerage Act 1963. On her death in 1974 the titles were inherited by her son, the fifteenth Baron Strange, who had already succeeded his father as second Viscount St Davids. As of 2013 the titles are held by the second Viscount's grandson, the fourth Viscount and seventeenth Baron Strange. ==1326 creation==