The L'Estrange Baronetcy, of Hunstanton in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the
Baronetage of England
Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain.
Baronetage of England (1611–1705)
King James I ...
. It was created on 1 June 1629 for Nicholas L'Estrange, son of
Hamon le Strange
Sir Hamon le Strange (1583 – 31 May 1654) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1626. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. His family were Norfolk gentry long based at ...
. The fourth Baronet sat as
Member of Parliament
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for
Castle Rising
Castle Rising is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some north-east of the town of King's Lynn and west of the city of Norwich. The River Babingley skirts the north of the village separating C ...
. The title became extinct on the death of the seventh Baronet in 1762.
Hamon L'Estrange
Hamon L'Estrange (1605–1660) was an English writer on history, theology and liturgy, of Calvinist views, loyal both to Charles I and the Church of England. Along with Edward Stephens (d. 1706), he contributed to the seventeenth-century reviva ...
and
Roger L'Estrange
Sir Roger L'Estrange (17 December 1616 – 11 December 1704) was an English pamphleteer, author, courtier, and press censor. Throughout his life L'Estrange was frequently mired in controversy and acted as a staunch ideological defender of Kin ...
were the younger brothers of the first Baronet.
L'Estrange baronets, of Hunstanton (1629)
*Sir Nicholas L'Estrange, 1st Baronet (1604–1655)
*Sir Hamon L'Estrange, 2nd Baronet (1631–1656)
*Sir Nicholas L'Estrange, 3rd Baronet (1632–1669)
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Sir Nicholas L'Estrange, 4th Baronet (1661–1724)
*Sir Thomas L'Estrange, 5th Baronet (1689–1751)
*Sir Henry L'Estrange, 6th Baronet (1698–1760)
*Sir Roger L'Estrange, 7th Baronet (1682–1762)
References
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Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England