Sir John de Grey of Ruthin, K.G.

John Grey (knight)

Sir John Grey KG (c. 1387 – 27 August 1439), English nobleman and soldier, of Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales, Badmondisfield (in Wickhambrook), Suffolk, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, etc., 2nd but eldest surviving son and heir apparent of Sir Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn by his 1st wife, Margaret Roos.[1] He was also Captain of Gournay.

He traveled with the king to France in 1415 and 1417.[1] He fought at the Battle of Agincourt and was invested as the 151st Knight of the Garter on 5 May 1436.[1]

He married (1st) before Trinity term 1410 (as her 2nd husband) Constance Holand (c.1387–14 November 1437), the daughter of John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (half brother of King Richard II), by his wife, Elizabeth of Lancaster;.[1] By her mother, Constance was a niece of King Henry IV. Constance married (1st) before 1 June 1402 (by papal dispensation dated 18 Sept. 1391, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred) Sir Thomas Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk, Earl of Nottingham, Earl Marshal, Lord Mowbray, Segrave, and Gower.[1] They had no issue. Sir Thomas Mowbray was executed 8 June 1405 due to his revolt against her uncle, King Henry IV.[1]

Sir John Grey and Constance Holand had three children:[1]

• Sir Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (1416–1490)[1]
• Sir Thomas Grey, Lord Richemount Grey, of Simpson, Buckinghamshire, Richemount, Bedfordshire, Merton, Westmorland, Langton, Yorkshire, etc., Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, 1453–8, Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire, 1455. He was created Baron of Richemount Grey by charter dated 25 June 1450, with remainder to his heirs male. He fought on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Towton 29 March 1461. He was subsequently attainted Nov. 1461 by the first Parliament of King Edward IV, whereby his honours and lands were forfeited, and he was executed soon afterwards.[2]
• Constance Grey, who married Sir Richard Herbert.[1]

Constance, Countess Marshal, died 12 (or 14) Nov. 1437, and was buried in a chapel at St. Katherine by the Tower, London by her brother, John Holand, Duke of Exeter. Following her death, Sir John Grey married (2nd) before 1 July 1438 Margaret Mowbray, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and widow of Sir Robert Howard.[1] They had no issue.[1]

Sir John Grey died 27 August 1439. His widow, Margaret, received a papal indult for a portable altar 3 August 1446. She died shortly before 18 October 1459.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grey_(knight)

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• Sir John Grey, Captain of Gournay1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17
• M, #27475, b. circa 1381, d. 27 August 1439
• Father Sir Reynold (Reginald) Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthyn, Governor of Ireland, Lord of Hastings & Wexford18,19,7,20,13 b. c 1362, d. 18 Oct 1440
• Mother Margaret Roos18,19,7,20,13 d. b 7 Feb 1415
• Sir John Grey, Captain of Gournay was born circa 1381 at of Ruthyn, Denbighshire, Wales. He married Constance Holand, daughter of Sir John Holand, 1st Duke Exeter, Earl of Huntingdon, Great Chamberlain of England and Elizabeth Plantagenet, before April 1410; They had 2 sons (Sir Edmund, 1st Earl of Kent, 4th Lord Grey of Ruthin; & Sir Thomas, Lord Richemount Grey) and 1 daughter (Constance, wife of Sir Richard Herbert).21,22,3,4,6,9,10,12,14,16,17 Sir John Grey, Captain of Gournay married Margaret Mowbray, daughter of Sir Thomas Mowbray, 1st Earl Nottingham, 1st Duke of Norfolk; Lord Mowbray, Segrave, & Stourton and Elizabeth FitzAlan, before 1 July 1438; No issue.2,3,5,6,7,8,11,12,13,15 Sir John Grey, Captain of Gournay died on 27 August 1439 at of Badmondisfield in Wickhambrook, Suffolk, England.3,6,7,12,13
• Family 1 Constance Holand b. 1387, d. 14 Nov 1437
• Children
  • Sir Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, 4th Baron Grey of Ruthin, Lord High Treasurer+3,6,23,12 b. 26 Oct 1416, d. 22 May 1490
  • Sir Thomas Grey, Lord Richemount Grey, Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire24,25,6,10,12,14,17 b. c 1418, d. c Nov 1461
• Family 2 Margaret Mowbray b. c 1388, d. c 18 Oct 1459
• Citations
• 1.[S8522] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VI, p. 159; Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 121; Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 1162.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 235.
• 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 621-622.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 134.
• 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 197.
• 6.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 277-278.
• 7.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 411.
• 8.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 211.
• 9.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 210.
• 10.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 346-347.
• 11.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 618.
• 12.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 129-130.
• 13.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 332.
• 14.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 392-393.
• 15.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 191.
• 16.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 190.
• 17.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 372-373.
• 18.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 620-621.
• 19.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 275.
• 20.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 126-127.
• 21.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. IX, p. 605.
• 22.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 299.
• 23.[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 106.
• 24.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. X, p. 777.
• 25.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 766-767.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p915.htm#i...
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• Sir John Grey1
• M, #107303, b. circa 1387, d. 27 August 1439
• Last Edited=1 May 2011
• Sir John Grey was born circa 1387. He was the son of Reynold Grey, 3rd Lord Grey (of Ruthin) and Margaret de Ros.2 He married Lady Constance de Holand, daughter of John de Holand, 1st Duke of Exeter and Elizabeth Plantagenet, before 24 February 1412/13.3 He died on 27 August 1439.2
• He fought in the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.4 He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Garter (K.G.) in 1436.5
• Children of Sir John Grey and Lady Constance de Holand
  • 1.Thomas Grey, 1st Baron of Richemount Grey6 d. c Dec 1461
  • 2.Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent+7 b. 26 Oct 1416, d. 22 May 1490
• Citations
• 1.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 100. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
• 2.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VI, page 159. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 3.[S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 1817. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• 4.[S37] BP2003. [S37]
• 5.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VI, page 155.
• 6.[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 136. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.
• 7.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VII, page 164.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p10731.htm#i107303
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• John GREY (Sir Knight)
• Born: ABT 1387, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
• Died: 27 Aug 1439, Badmondisfield, Suffolk, England
• Notes: Knight of the Garter. Served in the French wars.
• Father: Reginald GREY (3° B. Grey of Ruthin)
• Mother: Margaret ROS
• Married: Constance HOLLAND (b. 1387 - d. 1437) (dau. of John Holland, 1º D. Exeter; and Elizabeth Plantagenet)
• Children:
  • 1. Alice GREY
  • 2. Edmund GREY (1° E. Kent)
  • 3. Constance GREY
  • 4. Thomas GREY (1° B. Richemound)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/GREY3.htm#John GREY (Sir Knight)1
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Grey, Reginald de by Thomas Frederick Tout
GREY, REGINALD de, third Lord Grey of Ruthin (1362?–1440), was the eldest surviving son and heir of Reginald, second baron Grey of Ruthin, and of his wife Eleanor, daughter of Lord Strange of Blackmere, and the grandson therefore of Roger de Grey [q. v.], the first baron, and of his wife Elizabeth Hastings. He was probably born in 1362, as he was twenty-six years old when his father's death, at the end of July 1388, gave him the title and rich estates in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, as well as the cantreds of Duffryn Clwyd and Englefield, with the castle of Ruthin. On the death of John Hastings, heir to the earldom of Pembroke, in 1389, Grey was declared his next heir of the whole blood, in virtue of his grandmother Elizabeth's claim as sister of John, the third baron Hastings (Nicolas, Historic Peerage, p. 239, ed. Courthope); while Hugh Hastings, great-great-grandson of John, second baron Hastings (1262-1313)[q. v.], by his second wife, Isabel le Despenser, was declared heir of the half-blood. A great suit was afterwards carried on between Grey and Edward, brother of this Hugh Hastings, in the court of the earl marshal, each party claiming to bear the arms of the Hasting family, 'on a field or a maunche gules.' It was one of the causes célèbres of the middle ages. It lasted from 1401 to 1410, and was finally decided in Grey's favour. Both claimants continued to bear the title, to which neither had a right (Stubbs, Const. Hist. iii. 534; cf. Account of the Controversy, ed. Sir C. G. Young, London, 1841, fol., privately printed). Adam of Usk was counsel for Grey during the earlier stages of the suit (Chronicle, p. 56, ed. Thompson).
In October 1389 Grey was first summoned to parliament as "Reginald Grey de Ruthyn." In October 1394 he accompanied Richard II on his expedition to Ireland, where he claimed the lordship of Wexford as part of the Hastings estates (Courthope, p. 435). In 1398 he was again employed in Ireland, acting for a short time as governor after the death of Roger, earl of March (Gilbert, Viceroys of Ireland, p. 278). At the coronation feast of Henry IV it was Grey's duty to spread the cloths (Adam of Use, p. 33). He became a member of Henry's council, and in June 1401 gave the weighty advice that the question of war with France should be referred to parliament (Ord. Privy Council, i. 144).
The Welsh marches had been in a disturbed state since the fall of Richard II. A petty quarrel arose between Grey and his neighbour, Owain ab Gruffydd, lord of Glyndyfrdwy [see Glendower, Owen]. Owain claimed certain lands which Grey had in his possession, and failing to get lawful redress harried Grey's estates with fire and sword (Ann. Henrici IV, p. 333). Another dispute quickly followed in June 1400, when a certain Gruffydd ab Davydd ab Gruffydd stole the horses from Grey's park at Ruthin, and impudently expected to be forgiven. Grey wrote to him an angry letter concluding with some rough verses threatening "a rope, a ladder, and a ring, high on gallows for to hang, and thus shall be your ending" (Hingeston, Royal and Historical Letters of the Reign of Henry IV, i. 38, Rolls Ser.; cf. Ellis, Original Letters, 2nd ser. i. 3-7). Meanwhile Owain was raising the Welsh in revolt, and bitterly complaining that Grey had withheld from him his summons to the Scots expedition until it was impossible for him to obey it, and then denouncing him as a traitor (Monk of Evesham, p. 171, ed. Hearne). All Wales was soon in confusion, and Grey recommended the sternest measures to the council. Henry's fruitless autumn expedition, and the penal laws of January 1401, show that his advice was followed. But on 30 Jan. 1402 Owain made a raid on Ruthin, and carried off a great booty into the hills and woods. Grey seems to have remained in London till 19 Feb. (Ord. Privy Council, i. 180), but he had already arrived at Ruthin when in Lent Owain appeared again before the castle, and Grey, persuaded by his followers to attack the rebels, was lured into an ambush, taken prisoner, and carried off to the recesses of Snowdon.
Grey remained in his "harsh and severe prison" all the summer. The defeat of Edmund Mortimer, and the discomfiture of the king's expedition in the autumn, led him to make terms. He still rejected Owain's constant pressure to form an alliance with his old enemy, though Owain's terms of ransom were ten thousand marks, six thousand to be paid down upon Martinmas day (11 Nov.) before his release, while his eldest son was to remain as a hostage as security for the remainder. Grey petitioned the king to consent to the arrangement, and in the October parliament the commons took up his cause, and a commission was appointed to negotiate with the Welsh rebel (Rot. Parl. iii. 487; Fœdera, viii. 279; Ann. Henrici IV, p. 349; Adam of Use, p. 75, erroneously makes the ransom 16,000l.) The king allowed his feoffees to sell his manor of Hartley in Kent, and remitted the fines for absenteeism due from his Irish estates ('Pat. 4 Henry IV,' p. 2 m. 33, in Dugdale's Baronage, i. 717). The king himself contributed to the ransom, "because he knew Grey to be a valiant and loyal knight." Grey was soon released, and on 29 Jan. 1404 was in London (Wylie, Hist. Henry IV, i. 305). On 23 Nov. 1409 he was ordered, with the other great lords of the northern marches, to continue the war against the Welsh, as the rebels had paid no regard to the truce (Fœdera, viii. 611). His name appears but seldom in the transactions of the council for the rest of Henry IV's reign. He never seems to have recovered from the financial embarrassment caused by the large sum he had to pay for his release.
In Henry V's reign Grey was appointed, on 17 April 1415, one of the council which, under Bedford as regent, was appointed to govern England during the king's absence in France (Ord. Privy Council, ii. 157). In April 1416 he was one of those sent to meet the Emperor Sigismund at Dartford (ib. ii. 194). In 1416 he bound himself by indenture to serve Henry in France. In 1421 and 1425 he also served in France. He was present in 1426 at the parliament at Leicester. He died on 30 Sept. 1440.
Grey was twice married. His first wife was Margaret, the daughter of William, lord Roos, by whom he had a son, Sir John Grey, K.G., a very distinguished soldier, who fought at Agincourt and was deputy of Ireland from 1427 to 1428, but who died before his father, leaving by his wife, Constance Holland, two sons, Edmund, afterwards earl of Kent [q. v.], and Thomas, who was in 1449 made Baron of Rougemont. Reginald's second wife was Joan, the daughter and heiress of Sir William de Astley. She was the widow of Thomas Ranley of Farnborough, Warwickshire, and married Grey before February 1416 (Thirty-seventh Report of Deputy-keeper of Records, p. 318). She had by Grey three sons, of whom the eldest, Edward, was summoned to parliament in 1446 as Lord Ferrers of Groby [see under Grey, John, Lord Ferrers of Groby, 1432-1461]. The other children of the second marriage were John and Robert Grey. The title of Grey of Ruthin is still borne by Reginald's descendants in the female line.
[Dugdale's Baronage, i. 716-17; Nicolas's Historic Peerage, ed. Courthope, pp. 33, 222, 226, 239, 394; Collins's Peerage, ii. 513-16, ed. 1779; Rolls of Parliament, vol. iii.; Rymer's Fœdera, vols. viii. and ix., original edit.; Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council, vols. i. ii. and iii., ed. Nicolas; Hingeston's Royal and Historical Letters of Henry IV (Rolls Ser.); Ellis's Original Letters, 2nd ser. vol. i.; Annales Henrici IV, published along with Trokelowe (Rolls Ser.); Cont. Eulogium Historiarum, vol. iii. (Rolls Ser.); Walsingham's Historia Anglicana (Rolls Ser.); Adam of Usk, ed. Thompson; Monk of Evesham's Hist. of Richard II, ed. Hearne; Wylie's Hist. of Henry IV.]
T. F. T.
From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_18...
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• Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn (c. 1362 – 30 September 1440), a powerful Welsh marcher lord, succeeded to the title on his father Reginald's death in July 1388.
• Reginald was the eldest son of Reginald Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Ruthyn and Eleanor Le Strange of Blackmere. His paternal grandparents were Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn and Elizabeth de Hastings. His maternal grandparents were John Le Strange, 2nd Baron Strange of Blackmere and Ankaret Le Botiller. His youngest sister Ida de Grey, who married Sir John Cockayne, was an ancestress of Anne and Mary Boleyn.[citation needed]
• Grey married firstly, after 25 November 1378, Margaret de Roos (or Ros), daughter of Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros and Beatrice Stafford, daughter of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, by whom he had two sons and several daughters, including:[1]
  • Thomas Grey (living 1387).[1]
  • Sir John Grey, eldest surviving son,[1] (c. 1387 – 1439), who predeceased his father. He married Constance Holland, the daughter of Elizabeth Plantagenet and John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter by whom he had issue.[citation needed]
  • Margaret Grey[1] (d. aft. May 1426), who married William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville. These were the great-grandparents of wealthy heiress Cecily Bonville who married Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, a descendant of Reginald Grey by his second marriage.[citation needed]
  • Catherine Grey (born 1392), married George Lucy, Baron Lucy.[citation needed]
  • Eleanor Grey, who married Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings, by whom she had three sons, Sir Richard Poynings (d. 10 June 1429), Sir Robert Poynings and Edward Poynings (d. 1484).[1] [2]
• Grey married secondly on 7 February 1415, Joan de Astley, daughter of Sir William de Astley, 5th Baron Astley and Catherine de Willoughby, by whom he had three sons and three daughters, including:
  • Sir Edward Grey (c. 1415/1416 - 18 December 1457),[citation needed] who married Elizabeth Ferrers, 6th Baroness Ferrers of Groby, and had five children including Sir John Grey of Groby, the first husband of Elizabeth Woodville.[citation needed]
  • Robert Grey (born 1419),[citation needed] who married Eleanor Lowe.[3]
  • John Grey of Kempston, Bedfordshire.[3]
  • Constance Grey, who married Sir John Cressy.[1]
  • Elizabeth Grey, who married Sir William Calthorpe, by whom she had issue.[3]
  • Eleanor Grey, who married William Lucy, esquire, of Charlecote, Warwickshire.[3]
  • Alice Grey, married Sir John Knyvett
• In 1410 after a long dispute, the younger Reginald won the right to bear the arms of the Hastings family. .... etc.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Grey,_3rd_Baron_Grey_de_Ruthyn

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Grey, Edmund by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
GREY, EDMUND, first Earl of Kent (1420?–1489), high-treasurer of England, was eldest son of Sir John Grey, K.G., by Constance, daughter of John Holland, duke of Exeter, and grandson of Reginald, third lord Grey of Ruthin [q. v.] He was born about 1420, served in Aquitaine before 1440, was knighted on 9 Oct. 1440, having succeeded his grandfather as fourth Lord Grey of Ruthin on 30 Sept. In November of that year he was chief commissioner for a loan in Bedfordshire. His name occurs several times as present at meetings of the privy council in 1443. During the wars of the Roses Grey at first sided with the king, and in 1449 some of his followers killed William Tresham while on his way to join the Duke of York (William of Worcester, p. 769), He was summoned to the great council in 1454 (Proc. Privy Council, vi. 186), and in 1466 was a commissioner in Bedford to raise money for the defence of Calais (ib. vi. 241). In 1457 he was falsely accused, along with Ralph, lord Cromwell, and Sir John Fastolf, before the privy council by a priest named Robert Colynson (ib. vi. lxvi; cf. Paston Letters, i. 344). Grey seems to have fallen under suspicion with the king, for at the parliament at Coventry in December 1459, when the Duke of York was attainted, he is said to have "declaird himself worshipfuly to the kinges grete plaisir" (Paston Letters, i. 500). But next year, at the battle of Northampton on 10 July, where he led the vanguard of the royal army, he went over to Warwick, and so decided the day in favour of the Yorkists (William of Worcester, p. 773). For this he was rewarded by Edward IV with a grant of the manor of Ampthill. On 24 June 1463 he was made treasurer of England and a privy councillor. He was created Earl of Kent on 30 May 1465, and chief justice of the county of Merioneth on 28 Aug. of the same year. He was a commissioner of array in Kent in 1470, and in Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire in 1471. He carried the second sword at the coronation of Richard III on 7 July 1483, and in the same year was appointed a commissioner of oyer and terminer in London and the adjoining counties. Kent obtained confirmation of his titles from Richard III in 1484 and Henry VII in 1487. He died in 1489, having married Katherine, daughter of Henry Percy, second earl of Northumberland, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. There is a letter from Kent, then Lord Grey, dated 11 July 1454, in the "Paston Letters" (i. 244).
He was succeeded by his second son, George Grey, second earl of Kent (d. 1503), soldier, who was born before 1455. He was knighted in 1464 (William of Worcester, p. 784). During his father's life he was styled Lord Grey of Ruthin. He served in Edward IVs army during his expedition to France in 1475. On 5 July 1483 he was made a knight of the Bath, in 1485 was constable of Northampton Castle, and held a command in the royal army during Simnel's insurrection in 1487 (Speed, Chron. p. 744). In 1488 he was appointed commissioner to muster archers in the counties of Bedford and Northampton. Next year he succeeded his father as Earl of Kent. In 1491 he was one of the commanders of the force sent, under Jasper Tudor, duke of Bedford, to assist the Emperor Maximilian in France (Polydore Vergil, Hist. ed. 1585, p. 584), and again in 1497 held a similar position in the army which defeated the Cornish rebels at Blackheath (ib. p. 601). He died on 21 Dec. 1503, having married, first, in 1465, Anne Woodville, viscountess Bourchier, third daughter of Richard, earl Rivers, and sister of Elizabeth, queen of Edward IV (William of Worcester, p. 785, but Doyle says after 26 June 1480); Anne died on 30 July 1489. Kent afterwards married as his second wife Katharine Herbert, third daughter of William, first earl of Pembroke.
[William of Worcester's Annales in Letters … illustrative of Wars of English in France, vol. ii. (Rolls Ser.); Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner; Sir Harris Nicolas's Proceedings of the Privy Council, vols. v. vi.; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 718; Collins's Baronies by Writ, p. 253, where a genealogy of the family is given; Collins's Peerage, ii. 516, ed. 1779; Doyle's Official Baronage, ii. 281-2.]
C. L. K.
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Sir William Knyvett (c. 1440 – 2 December 1515) was an English knight in the late Middle Ages. He was the son of John Knyvett and Alice Lynne,[1][2] the grandson of Sir John Knyvett, and assumed the titles of Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk, Burgess of Melcombe, Bletchingley, & Grantham, Constable of Rising Castle.[3]
Life
Sir William married three times. The first was to Alice Grey (d. 1474[4]), daughter of John Grey, Esq., of Kempston, eldest son of Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn by his second wife, Joan Astley; by whom he had issue.[1] His second marriage was to Lady Joan Stafford, daughter of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Lady Anne Neville, by whom he had issue.[1] His final marriage was to Lady Joan Courtenay, widow of Sir Roger Clifford, and daughter of Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon, a friend of York, and his wife, Lady Margaret Beaufort; they had no issue.[1][3]
Sir William Knyvett died 2 December 1515. In his will dated 18 September 1514 and proved 19 June 1516 he requested to be buried in the church of Wymondham, Norfolk.[5]
At New Buckenham, in 1888, the following inscription was found on a brass, loose in the Church Chest:[4]

• To the memory of Alice, wife of William Knyvet, Esq., dau. of John Grey, son of Reginald Grey, Lord of Rythin, who died 4 April, 1474.[4]

Issue
His children by his first wife, Alice Grey (d. 4 April 1474[4]), were:
etc.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Knyvett_(died_1515)
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Sir John Grey
Birth 1387
Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
Death 27 Apr 1439 (aged 51–52)
Castle Acre, Kings Lynn and West Norfolk Borough, Norfolk, England
Burial All Saints Churchyard
Old Buckenham, Breckland Borough, Norfolk, England
Knight of the Garter
A Life Remembered ~ Sir John Grey
Sir John Grey KG (c. 1387 – August 27, 1439), English nobleman and soldier, was the eldest son of Reginald Greiny, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn and Margaret Roos.[1] He was also Captain of Gourney.
He traveled with the king to France in 1415 and 1417.[1] He fought at the Battle of Agincourt and was invested as the 151st Knight of the Garter on 5 May 1436.[1]
He married before 1410, Lady Constance Holland (c.1387–14 November 1437), the daughter of Elizabeth of Lancaster, and John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter;[1] the half brother of King Richard II. By her mother, Constance was a niece of King Henry IV. She was the widow of Thomas Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk, whom she had been betrothed to as a 4-year-old child,[1] but the marriage was never consummated.[citation needed] Mowbray was executed at age nineteen due to his revolt against her uncle, King Henry IV.[1]
Sir John Grey and Constance Holland had three children:
▪ Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (1416–1490)[1]
▪ Thomas Grey, 1st Baron of Richemount Grey (from Ridgmount, Bedfordshire) in 1450. Executed in 1461.[2]
▪ Constance Grey, who married Sir Richard Herbert.[1]
After the death of Constance, Grey married Lady Margaret Mowbray, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and widow of Sir Robert Howard, before 1 July 1438.[1]
Grey predeceased his father, who was succeeded by Edmund.
References
1.^ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families, Genealogical Publishing, 2005. pg 380-81. Google eBook
2.^ R. Ian Jack, 'Grey family (per. 1325–1523)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008.
thePeerage.com
Jack, R. Ian, "Grey family", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription or UK public library membership required)
"Grey, Reginald de". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Family Members
Parents
Reynold Reginald Grey
1362–1440

Margaret de Ros
1365–1414

Spouse
Lady Constance of Holland de Mowbray de Grey
1387–1437 (m. 1413)

Siblings
Eleanor Grey de Poynings
1381–1448

Lady Margaret Grey
1397–1427

Sir Edward "6th Lord Ferrers" Grey
1415–1457

Children
Sir Edmund "1st Earl of Kent" Grey
1416–1490

Alice Grey Knyvett
1442–1474
From: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102029660/john_grey
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