The Lestranges have been troublemakers since the start. There is nothing more volatile to add to a situation than a Lestrange, unless it's a Black. The Lestrange family has owned a sheep and goat farm in Ballycastle, along the eastern border of County Monaghan, for nearly the last three hundred years.
The Lestrange Family quirk is, of course, that they are no longer wholly human, after centuries of breeding with the local fae population. This, as can be expected, confers many an odd advantage and disadvantage. The Lestranges are, one and all, slim, lithe, well-balanced, and extremely swift. On the dim side, they are also raised with entirely foreign mores and values, frequently causing them to be perceived as troublesome and perverse, in most places outside the freehold. They are also bound by an ancient law of the non-human side of the family, and are inextricably bound to the first person to save their lives. Should another save them, at a later date, it is the first saviour's burden to repay that debt, in some way. On neither side of the line, they are fond of the taste of fresh blood, particularly that of their enemies -- not to say that well-dressed raw meat is ever taken amiss.
The two most recent members of the family in circulation are Rodolphus, by all accounts nearly acrobatic in his grace and entirely offensive and perverse in his speech, and Rabastan, less graceful than his brother, but also less offensive and more fond of blood.
Sir Roger L'Estrange (17 December 1616 – 11 December 1704)An English pamphleteer and author, and staunch defender of royalist claims, Roger was involved in political controversy throughout his life. His staunch opposition to religious tolerance, and support of the Catholic church, is thought to have stemmed from the Catholic acceptance of the miraculous, as opposed to the general Protestant view that all things inexplicable must be evil.
In 1644, he led a conspiracy in support of King Charles I and was sentenced to death as a spy, although after four years' imprisonment in Newgate Prison he was able to escape, allegedly with the assistance of the Gaunt family. He then fled to the Continent, finding refuge in Holland. In 1653, he was pardoned by Oliver Cromwell, and returned to England and his family.
In 1663, he began his career as a journalist, publishing a paper under the title
The Public Intelligencer and taking over as chief licenser and surveyor of the press from John Birkenhead. One gossip rag was not nearly enough for Roger's troublemaking tendencies, and on April 13, 1681 he started another paper called
The Observator, which was published until March 9, 1686 or 1687.
Knighted in 1685, by King James II, he claimed a position in Parliament that he kept until 1689, after which time, he fled to Ireland, fearing for his life. Whether this was a fear of his Muggle political opponents or a fear of the wizards who opposed his long-standing role in Muggle politics, has never been determined. Either way, he died of a poisoned drink at The Sovereign Goat Pub in Ballycastle, in December of 1704. His youngest son, Redmond, married into the Morgan family, shortly before Roger's death.
[Read about the real
Roger L'estrange, at Wikipedia, from which the greater text of this profile was nicked.]
Robert LeStrange (1926 - 1968)Robert lived openly as a "man of many talents" in the largely fae-populated village of Ballycastle, on the Northern border of Ireland. Since most of the town were either magical or had been used to the "magic and oddments" of living so closely with the fae, he had the freedom to live among them as anyone else did.
He wed a witch named Maeve Doyle, and the two had two children, named Roger and Rachel.
In 1966, in response to the re-beginning of the Troubles in the North, a group of armed Northerners, who blamed the Republic, attempted to seize the village of Ballycastle. During the course of the hours-long battle, several people were killed, and three buildings levelled by explosives. One of the buildings -- an accidental casualty, by all reports -- was the home of Robert Lestrange and his family. By all reports, their deaths were nearly instantaneous.
Rebecca LeStrange(b. 1928)HP Lexicon wrote:September[,1943]
Tom Marvolo Riddle starts his sixth year at Hogwarts. He is now wearing the ring he stole from his uncle Morfin during the summer. He meets with his Head of House, Professor Slughorn, accompanied by his group of friends which includes Avery and Lestrange.
Rebecca was very close to Tom Riddle, while at Hogwarts, and after she graduated, she remained in England to help him with his plans for the Knights of Walpurgis. At twenty-nine, she married Samson Yaxley, and some years later bore him a son named Ridley.
She has stayed close to Lord Voldemort, all these years, and is extremely pleased to see that her nephews have joined the cause.
Roland LeStrange(b. 1931)Roland, youngest of his siblings, bore the honour of refreshing the family's alliance with the fae who had sheltered them since shortly after the family's arrival in Ireland, in 1690. He is renowned as a socially comfortable man, if more inclined to throw festivals than attend events outside his land. He continues to maintain the livestock business started by his great-grandfather and is privately thankful that Roger's newspapering habits didn't follow him to Ireland.
Roland and his consort, Brigid, have two sons, Rabastan and Rodolphus.
Rabastan Lestrange(b. 1953)Son of Brigid Morgan and Roland LeStrange. "Babs", as his family calls him, is the elder and more violent of the latest generation of Lestrange siblings. Raised among the same three families as his brother, Babs took after the Ó Ruadháins, in their sociopathic lack of mercy for any living thing. Combined with the morality of his mother's family, and the Pureblooded wizarding talents of his father's line, this has made him a formidable opponent and an excellent tactician. He has risen swiftly, among the Death Eaters, despite his heritage, although more of the tolerance shown him is born of fear than respect.
Rodolphus Lestrange(b. 1956)As the younger son of Brigid Morgan and Roland LeStrange, he is expected to carry his generation's bond with the Morgan family, by taking his cousin Clover as a consort. Roddy is one step shy of being a Squib. For more information, see Roddy's
application.