Thomas Grey b. 1455 Groby, Leicestershire, England d. 20 Apr 1501 Astley, Warwickshire, England

1455 - 1501 (46 years)

Name	Thomas Grey [1]
Born	1455	Groby, Leicestershire, England [1]
Gender	Male
Occupation	14 Aug 1471 [1]
	Earl of Huntington
Occupation	18 Apr 1475 [1]
	Marquess of Dorset
Occupation	1483 [1]
	Lord Ferrers of Groby
Military	1492 [1]
	Commanded troops sent to assist the Emperor Maximilian against the French
Military	1497 [1]
	held a command in the royal forces sent to suppress the Cornish rebellion.
Occupation	Knight of the Garter [1]
Died	20 Apr 1501	Astley, Warwickshire, England [1]
Buried	Collegiate Church of Astley, Warwickshire, England
Person ID	I22445	Jerry Milo Johnson
Last Modified	29 Mar 2015

Father	John Grey, b. 17 Feb 1432, Groby, Leicestershire, England , d. 17 Feb 1461, Battle of St. Albans (Age 29 years)
Relationship	Natural
Mother	Elizabeth Woodville, b. Abt 1437, Grafton Regis, Northhampton, England , d. 08 Jun 1492, Bermondsey Abbey, Surrey, England (Age ~ 55 years)
Relationship	Natural
Married	Abt 1460 [1]
Family ID	F8036	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Cecilia Bonville, b. 1461, Chewton Mendip, Somersetshire, England , d. 12 May 1529, Middlesex, England (Age 68 years)

Children

1. Cecily Grey, b. Abt 1497, Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales

, d. 28 Apr 1554 (Age ~ 57 years) [Natural]

Family ID F8026 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2	A. Holland
Family ID	F8027	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Event Map

	Born - 1455 - Groby, Leicestershire, England
	Died - 20 Apr 1501 - Astley, Warwickshire, England
	Buried - - Collegiate Church of Astley, Warwickshire, England

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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.

Sources

[S292] Genealogy of Neal Frank Carrier, Neal Frank Carrier, (Name: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carrier/ifamily/index.html;), http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carrier/ifamily/HTMLFiles/HTMLFiles_03/Edmond_Ingalls_P2153.html (Reliability: 3).