Hamon Le Strange, "Le Strange Records" pp.8-9 Such scanty evidence as there is s...
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Hamon Le Strange, "Le Strange Records" pp.8-9 Such scanty evidence as there is seems to point to the conjecture that the le Stranges were ultimately Breton, as the original Celtic name Riuallon suggests: if so, 'extraneus' probably meant just what ' Welsh ' meant to English and Germans, viz. the man speaking a strange tongue. It must be admitted, however, that we have no evidence that Dol and itsdistrict ever spoke Breton but rather the contrary. ...and p.10... It is desirable to lay special stress on the point, already mentioned, that le Strange belongs to a group of 'new men' from the extreme west of Normandy and Anjou, with connections and names from the other side of the Breton border, whom the policy of Henry I transplanted into England with the object of counterbalancing the dangerous power of the Norman nobles already settled there.