Thomas Grey

Other Events:

• Occupation: Knight of the Garter
• Occupation: 14 Aug 1471; Earl of Huntington
• Occupation: 18 Apr 1475; Marquess of Dorset
• Occupation: 1483; Lord Ferrers of Groby
• Military: 1492; Commanded troops sent to assist the Emperor Maximilian against the French
• Military: 1497; held a command in the royal forces sent to suppress the Cornish rebellion.

Notes:

Knight of the Garter. Lord Ferrers of Groby 1483, Earl of Huntington 14 Aug 1471. The Complete Peerage vol.V,p362, is definite that 20 Sep is not the death date & vol.V,p.654. Commanded the forces assisting the Emperor Maximilian against the French.

14th g-grandfather of Prince Charles.
14th g-grandfather of Diana Spencer.
12th g-grandfather of Winston Churchill.

Thomas was Elizabeth's son by her first marriage, to Sir John Grey. He was created Marquess of Dorset on April 18 1475 and summoned to Parliament on November 15 1482. In January 1482/3 on the death of his grandmother Elizabeth, he became Lord Ferrers of Groby. He joined the Duke of Buckingham's 1483 rebellion against Richard III. When the rebellion failed he fled to Brittany to join Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII.

Thomas first married Anne Holland, only daughter of Anne of York, dowager Duchess of Exeter and sister of Edward IV. After she died young without issue he married Cecily Bonville, Baroness Harington and Bonville, a niece of Richard Neville Earl of Warwick and stepdaughter of William Hastings, Edward IV's close associate. By the latter marriage Lady Jane Grey was his great-grand-daughter.

He fought for Edward at Tewkesbury in 1471, becoming Marquess of Dorset in 1475. On the death of Edward in 1483 he took sanctuary but later took up arms in Yorkshire and a reward was offered for his capture. He participated in Buckingham's rising and, when it failed, joined the Earl of Richmond in Brittany. He took no part in the latter's invasion of England, but after Bosworth he was recalled to England and all his honours were restored. In 1487, during the Lambert Simnel insurrection, he fell under suspicion and was imprisoned in the Tower of London. After the battle of Stoke in the same year he was released. In 1492 he took part in the expedition to assist the Emperor Maximilian against the French. In 1497 he held a command in the royal forces sent to suppress the Cornish rebellion.

Family/Spouse: Cecilia Bonville. Cecilia (daughter of William Bonville and Katherine Neville) was born in 1461 in Chewton Mendip, Somersetshire, England; died on 12 May 1529 in Middlesex, England; was buried in Astley, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Cecily Grey was born about 1497 in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales; died on 28 Apr 1554; was buried in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, London, England.

Family/Spouse: A. Holland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Military: War of the Roses

Notes:

Military:
Killed during the War of the Roses at the 2nd Battle of St. Alban's.

John married Elizabeth Woodville about 1460. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Wydeville and Jacquetta De Luxembourg) was born about 1437 in Grafton Regis, Northhampton, England; died on 08 Jun 1492 in Bermondsey Abbey, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth Wydevill was also known as Elizabeth Woodville. From circa 1452, her married name became Grey. As a result of her marriage, Elizabeth Wydevill was styled as Queen Consort Elizabeth of England on 26 May 1465. Her marriage to Edward IV Plantagenet, King of England was annulled on 25 June 1483 by an Act of Parliament, known as the 'Titulus Regius', because of King Edward's alleged precontract to Eleanor Butler. The marriage was ultimately recognised as valid in October 1485 by the firstAct of Parliament of King Henry VII.2

Notes: one of Queen Margaret's ladies, married while still in her teens to Sir John Grey, heir of Lord Ferrers of Groby, a strong supporter of the House of Lancaster. Sir John was killed fighting for Lancaster at the second Battle of St. Albans. Elizabeth returned to her family home with her two young sons. The romantic story relates that Elizabeth waylaid Edward in the forest to plead for the protection of her widows' jointure and the rights of her sons and he was so ensnared by her feminine wiles that he wanted her to become his mistress but she refused anything except marriage. Whether this is true or not they were certainly secretly married in May 1464. The marriage was not made public for several months, during which time Warwick continued to press Edward to cement an alliance with France by marrying the sister-in-law of the French King.The seeds were thus sown of the rift which eventually led to the fall of the House of York. Edward was induced to provide grants of land and office for her father and her brothers and her sisters nearly all made advantageous marriages, three of them to minors. Only one of Elizabeth Woodville's brothers made a marriage at all out of the ordinary and that was brother John (aged 20) to Catherine Neville, dowager Duchess of Norfolk (aged more than 65). Such a marriage was not totally unheard of, but it offended Warwick's ally the Duke of Norfolk. Several others of the marriages were really only offensive to the Nevilles and their allies.

Notes:

The Greys of Groby and Bradgate were successors to a family of high rank and influential connections in the aristocracy of England. They claimed descent from Anchitell de Grey, who took part in the Norman invasionof 1066. The Greys first began their connection with Groby when a Sir Edward Grey married Elizabeth, the heiress daughter of the fifth Lord Ferrars of Groby. This Sir Edward was summoned to Parliament in 1446 as Lord Ferrars of Groby.

Edward married Elizabeth Ferrers. Elizabeth was born in 1419; died on 23 Jan 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Military: In command of the forces during the French wars
• Occupation: Knight of the Garter
• Occupation: Lord High Constable
• Occupation: Treasurer of the Exchequer

Notes:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carrier/ifamily/HTMLFiles/HTMLFiles_07/Richard_Wydeville_P3822.html
ancestors

Richard was assigned to accompany Jacquetta, the beautiful young widow of the Duke of Bedford,on a voyage to England from Rouen, where the Duke had died.
Woodville later married the widow. The marriage did not meet with universal approval and the young couple had to pay a fine of 1000 for marrying without the King's permission. Woodville was a loyal servant of King Henry and was rewarded with the Rivers Barony in 1448. His wife was high in Queen Margaret's favour. Beheaded 1469.

Total Number of Children: 15

Richard married Jacquetta De Luxembourg before 23 Mar 1436. Jacquetta (daughter of Pierre De Luxembourg and Margaret de Baux) was born in 1416 in St. Po, Artois, France; died on 30 May 1472 in Grafton, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

was daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint Pol, Conversano etBrienne and his wife Margaret de Baux (Margherita del Balzo of Andria).

On April 22, 1433 she married John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford atTherouenNE He was a son of King Henry IV of England and Mary de Bohun.This marriage was childless. He died in the night of September 14/15, 1435.

Before March 23, 1436/1437, she married Sir Richard Woodville, who was the son of her dead husband's chamberlain. He was later created 1st EarlRivers. They had sixteen children, among them Elizabeth Woodville who was to become the wife of King Edward IV of England, and mother of Elizabeth of York (in her turn mother of King Henry VIII) and of King EdwardV.

Reginald married M. De Ros [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Comte de Saint Pol, Conversano etBrienne

Pierre married Margaret de Baux in 1405 in Austria, Hungary. Margaret was born in 1394 in Andria, Apula Bari, Italy; died in 1469 in Cercamp, Artois, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Margherita del Balzo
• Name: Marguerite de Baux