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Stradling was born ca. 1448.
He married Elizabeth Herbert. Elizabeth was the daughter
of Sir William Herbert and Gladys ferch Dafydd. She was also heiress
to her brother Sir William Herbert, a friend and councillor of Edward IV
and later Earl of Pembroke.
Elizabeth's maternal grandfather was Daffyd ap Llewellyn,
who was better known as Davy Gam. Davy was a friend of Henry V, and
was one of the 25 English dead at Agincourt.
Sir Harry was once taken prisoner by a Breton pirate,
and the ransom cost his father three manors and the lordship of Sutton-in-St.
Bride's.
Following in the footsteps of his father and his
grandfather, he left for Jerusalem in 1476/77. By the end of March
of the year, he had reached Rome, where he wrote his wife a letter describing
his journey so far. He managed to leave the Holy City with his knighthood
of the Holy Sepulchre, but on his return to England, he died on Cyprus,
and was buried at Famagusta.
Sir Henry "Harry" Stradling and Elizabeth Herbert had the following child:
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Stradling was born ca. 1448.
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