Sizergh

The Deincourt family owned this land from the 1170s. On the marriage of Elizabeth Deincourt to Sir William de Stirkeland in 1239, the estate passed into the hands of what became the Strickland family, who owned it until it was gifted to the National Trust in 1950 by Lieutenant Commander Thomas Hornyold-Strickland, 7th Count della Catena, R.N., a grandson of the 1st Baron Strickland. Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII and a relative of the Stricklands, is thought to have lived here after her first husband, Sir Edward Burgh, died in 1533. Katherine's second husband, Lord Latymer, was kin to the dowager Lady Strickland, Katherine Neville. It was extended in Elizabethan times. Sir…