Sir Thomas Grenville, Kt.

Sir Thomas Grenville (died 1513) was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1481 and 1486.[1] He was lord of the manors of Bideford in Devon and of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall.

He was the son and heir of Sir Thomas Grenville by his second wife Elizabeth Gorges, daughter of Theobald Gorges and sister of Sir Theobald Gorges. [2] Although little if anything at all survives in historical records concerning his biography, he was the descendant of a notable ancestor who took part in the Norman Conquest of Glamorgan, namely Sir Richard Grenville one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan who won for himself the Welsh lordship of Neath and in 1129 founded there Neath Abbey. Sir Thomas was himself ancestor to famous descendants, most notably his great-grandson Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591), the valiant captain of "The Revenge" and of Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643), MP and famous Civil War commander, father of John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628-1701). He was also the ancestor of the Grenville Marquesses of Buckingham, title created in 1784, and the Grenville Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, title created in 1822.

He married twice:[4]

• Firstly to Isabel Gilbert, daughter of Otes Gilbert of Compton Castle by his wife Elizabeth Hill, daughter of Robert Hill of Shilston.
• Secondly to the widow of a certain "Hill de Taunton"

By his first wife Isabel Gilbert he had issue including:[5]

• Sir Roger Grenville (1477-1524), captain of the Mary Rose, who married Margaret Whitlegh the daughter and co-heiress of Richard Whitlegh of Efford.
• Jane Grenville, married Sir John Arundel of Trerice in Cornwall
• Philipa Grenville (d.1524), married firstly Francis Harris (1475-1509) of Radford; secondly Humphry Arundel.
• Mary Grenville, married firstly Richard Bluett (1479-c.1523) of Holcombe Rogus in Devon and Cothay Manor, which he rebuilt, in Somerset. His monumental brass exists in St Nicholas' Church in Kittisford, Somerset; secondly to Thomas St Aubyn.
• Honor Grenville, married firstly Sir John Bassett (d.1529) of Umberleigh in Devon; secondly to Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle.

A monument with recumbent effigy on a chest tomb exists of Sir Thomas Grenville in the Church of St Mary, Bideford. Inscribed on the Tudor arch above is the following Latin text:

• Hic jacet Thomas Graynfyld miles patron(us) (huius) eccle(siae) q(ui) obiit XVIII die me(n)sis Marcii A(nno) D(omini) MCCCCCXIII cui(us) a(n)i(ma)e p(ro)piciet(ur) D(eus) Amen ("Here lies Thomas Grenville, knight, patron of this church who died on the 18th day of March in the Year of Our Lord 1513, to whose soul may God look on with favour Amen")

His recumbent effigy is shown fully armed in a suit of Almain rivets and his feet rest on a dog. His hair is of chin-length and his hands are clasped in prayer holding a ball shaped object, possibly the Host. His head is inclined slightly to the south, as if looking towards the altar of the Lady Chapel. He wears a double chain around his neck. There are several heraldic escutcheons on the monument displaying the arms of Grenville: Gules, three clarions or. The monument is an important early source for use in deciphering the form of these mysterious and unexplained charges.

Bideford was the residence of the Grenville family from shortly after the Norman Conquest and Stowe in Cornwall was also a seat. Sit Thomas appears to have been one of the last of the family to reside chiefly at Bideford, if indeed the presence there of his effigy may be allowed to suggest that, and his descendants made Stowe their chief seat, whilst retaining ownership of Bideford until the family died out in the male line.

Sources

• Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L. & Drake, Henry H., (Eds.), The Visitation of the County of Cornwall in the Year 1620, London, 1874: Grenville pp.84-87

References

• 1.^ Richard Polwhele, The Civil and Military History of Cornwall, volume 1, London, 1806, pp 106-9
• 2.^ Vivian, 1874, p.84
• 3.^ Vivian, Visitation of Devon, 1895, p.405, Gilbert of Compton
• 4.^ Vivian, 1874, p.84
• 5.^ Vivian, 1874, p.84

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Grenville_(d.1513)

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• Sir Thomas Grenville, Sheriff of Cornwall1,2,3,4,5
• M, #22342, b. circa 1455, d. 18 March 1513
• Father Sir Thomas Greynville, Sheriff of Gloucester & Cornwall, Lord of Bideford in Devonshire & Kilkhampton in Stowe in Cornwall b. c 1435, d. 1484
• Mother Elizabeth Gorges
• Sir Thomas Grenville, Sheriff of Cornwall Lord of Bideford, Devon and Kilkhampton, Stowe, Cornwall. He was born circa 1455 at of Stowe, Gloucestershire, England. He married Isabella Gilbert, daughter of Sir Otes Gilbert, Sheriff of Devon, Escheator of Devon & Cornwall and Elizabeth Hill, before 1478.4,5 Sir Thomas Grenville, Sheriff of Cornwall married Jane (Jous) Hill circa 1491.6 Sir Thomas Grenville, Sheriff of Cornwall died on 18 March 1513.
• Family 1 Isabella Gilbert
• Children
  • Honor Grenville+7,8,4,5
  • Jane Grenville+ d. bt 1551 - 1552
  • Sir Roger Grenville+ b. c 1477, d. 7 Jul 1524
  • Jane (Katherine) Grenville+9,10,2,3 b. c 1480, d. a 3 Feb 1546
  • Mary Grenville b. c 1482
• Family 2 Jane (Jous) Hill b. c 1471
• Citations
• 1.[S6922] Unknown author, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, by F. L. Weis, 4th Ed., p. 26; Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. II, p. 119.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 43-44.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 374.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 555-556.
• 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 420.
• 6.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
• 7.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. VIII, p. 67-68.
• 8.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 802.
• 9.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/1, p. 520.
• 10.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 182.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p744.htm#i...
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Sir Thomas Grenville (M)

d. circa 1515, #979

    Sir Thomas Grenville was the son of Thomas Grenville and Elizabeth Gorges. Sir Thomas Grenville married Isabel Gilbert, daughter of Otho Gilbert. Sir Thomas Grenville died circa 1515.

Children:

Sir Roger Greenville

Richard Greenville

Honor Greenville

Mary Greenville

Agnes Greenville

Catherine Greenville

Phillippa Greenville

Jane Greenville

Source 1. The American Genealogist: John Drakes English Connections-pg: 243;

Source 2: Internet: http://www.e-familytree.net:

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• Sir Thomas Grenville lived at Stow, Devon, England.1 He was also known as Sir Thomas Granville.2
• Child of Sir Thomas Grenville
  • 1.Katharine Grenville+2
• Citations
• 1.[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 I, page 252. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2.[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 9. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p11652.htm#i116511
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• Sir Thomas Grenville1
• M, #477839
• Last Edited=14 Sep 2011
• Sir Thomas Grenville lived at Stow, Cornwall, England.1
• Child of Sir Thomas Grenville
  • 1.Mary Grenville+1
• Citations
• 1.[S229] Burke John and John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England (1841, reprint; Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985), page 643. Hereinafter cited as Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p47784.htm#i477839
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• Sir Thomas Grenville1
• M, #25715
• Last Edited=14 Jun 2008
• Sir Thomas Grenville lived at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England.1
• Child of Sir Thomas Grenville
  • 1.Philippa Grenville1
• Citations
• 1.[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 9. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p2572.htm#i25715
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• Sir Thomas Grenville1
• M, #107606
• Last Edited=9 Feb 2009
• Child of Sir Thomas Grenville
  • 1.Honora Grenville1 b. bt 1493 - 1495, d. 1566
• Citations
• 1.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 141. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p10761.htm#i107606
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ID: I120075

Name: Thomas GRENVILLE 1

Sex: M

Name: Thomas Grenville 2 3 4

Birth: ABT 1451 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England

Birth: ABT 1449 in Stow, , Cornwall, England 4

Birth: ABT 1453 in Of, Stow, Cornwall

Death: 18 MAR 1511/12 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England

Death: 18 MAR 1511/12 in Stow, , Cornwall, England 4

Death: 18 MAR 1511/12 in Stow, Cornwall 2

Change Date: 14 JAN 2004

Burial: Bideford, Devon, England 2

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Lord of Biddeford, Devon, and Kilkhampton, Stowe, Cornwall

Sheriff of Cornwall , 1480, 1485

Will Dated 9 March 1512/1513, probated 12 May 1514.

Source: Magn a Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Edition. By Frederick Lewis

Weis, Line 22, page 26

Father: Thomas GRANVILLE b: ABT 1426 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England

Mother: Elizabeth GORGES b: ABT 1431 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England

Father: Thomas Grenville b: 1417 in Stow, Cornwall, England

Mother: Alice Gorges b: ABT 1421 in Stow, Cornwall

Father: Thomas Grenville , Sir b: BET 1425 AND 1428 in Stow, Cornwall, England

Mother: Elizabeth GORGES b: ABT 1431 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England

Marriage 1 Johanna TOWSE

Married: 1

Marriage 2 Isabella Gilbert b: ABT 1456 in Of, Compton, Devonshire, England

Married: ABT 1473 in Of, Stowe, Cornwall, England 1

Married: ABT 1473 in Stow, Cornwall 2

Children

Richard GRENVILLE b: ABT 1473 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England

Honor GRENVILLE b: ABT 1476 in Of, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England
Roger GRENVILLE b: ABT 1477 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England
Mary GRANVILLE b: ABT 1478 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England
Agnes GRENVILLE b: ABT 1479 in Of, Stowe, Cornwall, England
Catherine GRENVILLE b: ABT 1480 in Of, Stowe, Cornwall, England
Phillipa GRENVILLE b: ABT 1486 in Of, Stow, Devonshire, England
Jane Grenville b: ABT 1474 in <, Stow, Cornwall, England>
Marriage 3 Jane HILL

Married: ABT 1491 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England 1

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Baron Thomas Grenville, High sheriff of Cornwall

Gernville married twice. His first wife was Isabel Gilbert, daughter of Otes Gilbert of Compton Castle by his wife Elizabeth Hill, daughter of Robert Hill of Shilston. By her Thomas Grenville had two sons and six daughters:

• Sir Roger Grenville (1477–1523), eldest son and heir, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1510–11, 1517–18, 1522, who was present within the Cornish contingent at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He married Margaret Whitlegh (or Whitely) the daughter and co-heiress of Richard Whitlegh (died 1509) of Efford, about three miles from Stowe. His sons (all of whom have left surviving letters in the Lisle Papers) were:

• Sir Richard Grenville (c. 1495 – 1550), eldest son and heir. Entered the Inner Temple, with his brother John, in 1520; MP for Cornwall in 1529. He married Matilda Bevil, daughter and co-heiress of John Bevil of Gwarnock, St Allen, Cornwall. He was pre-deceased by his eldest son Roger Grenville (died 1545), captain of the Mary Rose when it sank in Portsmouth Harbour in 1545, whose son was the heroic Admiral Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591), Captain of the Revenge, MP for Cornwall, Sheriff of Cork from 1569–70, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1576–77, Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, privateer, colonizer, and explorer.
  
• John Grenville (c. 1506 – c. 1562), 2nd son. Entered the Inner Temple, with his brother Richard, in 1520.three times MP for Exeter, in 1545, 1554 and 1558. In 1534 he purchased the reversion of the office of a Serjeant-at-Arms, which office he performed for King Henry VIII from 1535. He was a servant successively of Sir Thomas More and Lord Chancellor Thomas Audley. He married Lettice Lucas, daughter of Thomas Lucas of Suffolk.
  
• Diggory Grenville, 3rd son, some of whose correspondence, in connection with his management of his aunt Honor Grenville's manor of Umberleigh, survives in the Lisle Papers.
  

Richard Grenville, pre-deceased his father, unmarried.

• Jane Grenville, married Sir John III Arundel (1470–1512) of Trerice in Cornwall, Sheriff of Cornwall and Vice Admiral of the West to King Henry VII and to his son King Henry VIII.[13] An escutcheon showing the arms of Arundell impaling Grenville survives on the monumental brass in Stratton Church, Cornwall, of her son Sir John IV Arundell (1495–1561), of Trerice, known as Jack of Tilbury, an Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII and Vice-Admiral of the West.
• Mary Grenville, married firstly Richard Bluett (1479 – c. 1523) of Holcombe Rogus in Devon and Cothay Manor, which he rebuilt, in Somerset. His monumental brass exists in St Nicholas' Church in Kittisford, Somerset; secondly to Thomas St Aubyn.
• Agnes Grenville, married John Roscarrock of Roscarrock near Port Isaac.
• Philipa Grenville (died 1524), married firstly Francis Harris (1475–1509) of Radford; secondly Humphry Arundell of Lanherne, younger brother of Sir John Arundell (1474–1545), her brother-in-law.[8]
• Honor Grenville, married firstly Sir John Bassett (died 1529) of Umberleigh in Devon; secondly to Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle. Much is known about her life from her surviving correspondence in the Lisle Letters.
• Katherine Grenville, youngest daughter, married in 1507 Sir John Arundell (1474–1545) of Lanherne, Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall and "the most important man in the county".

Grenville's second wife was the widow of a certain "Hill de Taunton". By her he had two further children, John, who was appointed by his father rector of Kilkhampton in 1524, in which office he remained until 1580; and Jane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Grenville_(died_1513)

Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L. & Drake, Henry H., (Eds.), The Visitation of the County of Cornwall in the Year 1620. London, 1874, p.84 pedigree of Grenville

Granville, Roger, (Rector of Bideford), History of the Granville Family Traced Back to Rollo, First Duke of the Normans, With Pedigrees etc., Exeter, 1895, pp. 68–9

Vivian, J.L., ed. (1887). The Visitations of Cornwall: comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian. Exeter: W. Pollard, p.12, Pedigree of Arundell of Trerice

Sir Thomas Grenville, Kt.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64480586/thomas-grenville

Actual place of birth is:Stowe, Kirkhampton, Cornwall, England.

Son of Sir Thomas Grenville, Lord of Bideford, and his second wife, Elizabeth Gorges. Husband of Isabella Gilbert, the daughter of Otho Gilbert of Compton and Elizabeth Hill. They had the following children:

• Jane Grenville, the wife of Sir John Arundell, son of John
• Roger Grenville of Stowe
• Catherine Grenville, the wife of Sir John Arundell, son of Thomas
• Honor Grenville, Viscountess Lisle, wife of Sir John Basset
• Mary Grenville, wife of Thomas St Aubyn & Richard Blewett of Holcombe
• Agnes Grenville, wife of John Roscarrock
• Phillipa Grenville
• Richard Grenville
• Margaret Grenville, wife of John Atwood

Sir Thomas was a Knight of Bath.

The above was submitted by Find a Grave contributor, Anne Shurtleff Stevens on 5 May 2014.

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