John Grey

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]

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]

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

Notes:

Richard Grey (1458 June 13, 1483) was son to John Grey, 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby, and Elizabeth Woodville, later Queen Consort to King Edward IV of England. He was therefore half-brother to Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward V). He was given Wallingford Castle in 1482. He was arrested by Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III) on April 30, 1483 for his part in an alleged conspiracy to seize the kinggs person and thereby wrest control of the kingdom away from Richard, then Lord Protector. Richard Grey was subsequently executed without trial at Pontefract Castle.

Died:
Beheaded by Richard III

Family/Spouse: John Sutton. John (son of Edward Sutton and Cecily Willoughby) was born in 1495 in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales; died on 18 Apr 1553 in Westminster, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Captain Henry Sutton Dudley (1517-1568) was a soldier and sailor of theTudor period.

Dudley is often referred to vaguely as a "cousin" of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland. Henry Dudley was in fact the second son of John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley, and the younger brother of Edward Sutton, Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley. His mother was Cicely, the daughter of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquis of Dorset, and was to continue the private struggle of his family against Tudor dynasty through into the reign of Mary Iof England.

Born in Dudley Castle, Staffordshire, this lord Henry Dudley is not to be confused with that son of Northumberland named Henry Dudley who was born between 1522-1542 and who married Margaret, the daughter of Thomas Audley.

Henry became a monastic auditor under Thomas Cromwell in 1535, and thena soldier serving in Ireland under his uncle Leonard Grey in 1536, andin Scotland from 1540-3. Dudley fought gallantly during the siege of Boulogne in 1544, and was made a Captain early in 1545 under Lord Clinton.

It was about 1535/45, Probably at Boulogne that he married the daughterof Christopher Ashton, (b 1493) who was born about 1519 and who bore him a son, Roger Dudley.

He was promoted to Vice Admiral of the Narrow Seas 1552-3 when Edward Fiennes was Admiral, and knighted at Hampton Court on the 11th October 1551.

A close associate of his second cousin, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, he was arrested on 25 July 1553 for his complicity in the political maneuverings of the Duke of Northumberland. Henry was imprisoned in the Tower of London, but pardoned by Queen Mary on 18 October, 1553.

Henry Dudley, having once been Captain of the Guard at Boulogne had many friends in France and in December 1555 visited Paris, where he was curiously well received by King Henry II of France. Although Dudley returned home with only the vaguest of assurances, even Pope Paul was ill-disposed toward the English Queen Mary because of her marriage into the powerful Habsburg family and that same month signed a secret treaty withHenry II against Spanish dominion.

Henry Dudley and his agents moved in January, to conceal stores of ammunition at strategic locations, and also secluded an amount of money totalling fifty thousand pounds, previously withdrawn and removed from theExchequer, (where Dudley was a familiar visitor and had a number of friends), ~ ?in water by (London) bridge,? to make ready for an invasion planned to be executed by mercenaries and exiles. The money was to be sent to France where his Protestant exile supporters would follow the initiative through.

In Spain, Charles V crippled with arteriosclerosis abdicated on January16, whereupon Philip and Mary became King and Queen of Spain, which atthe time held the Netherlands.

Philip had received a letter confirming that given the mood of the English Parliament even down to the people discontent was such that their was scant chance of him also being crowned in England at the same time or in the near future. He had been raised to expect nothing less than absolute rule with his Queen and anything less would be ?unbecoming to his dignity? and so made only one brief visit much later to his Majestic wife in England.

Sir Henry Dudley had returned to France, and by March was engaged in the raising of an invasion force, with the intention of landing it on theIsle of Wight, to march on London. Had the plot not been discovered, it?s intention was to remove Mary to exile in Spain where she could be happily reunited with King Philip and to bring about the succession of Elizabeth to the English throNE

Bold and righteous as it was, it proved too daring for most of the English Gentry, who failed to lend it their support, "feebly, but not without some expectation, waiting for time to dispatch the evil Queen".

It was Henry Dudley who now took the initiative, whilst greater noblemen trembled, Dudley was abroad organising a widespread and sophisticatedrebellion. Amongst his agents was the courtier and M.P. Henry Peckham,the son Sir Edward Peckham, then Master of the Tower Mint and a memberofthe Royal Council. Henry Peckham was detected in the plan to obtainfunds by robbing the Exchequer and he soon found himself a prisoner ofthe Tower.

In July of 1555 he and his assistants were "hanged on the gallows of Tower Hill for treason against the queen .... and after cut down, beheaded and their bodies carried unto London Bridge and there set up and their bodies buried at Allhallows, Barking."

It appears that once revealed the plot dissolved and Henry Dudley remained at large in France, his great scheme undermined by careless talk and too unwieldy an organisation. He was consequently to become an exile in the French service between 1556-1563, but was again to return home and serve as "Capt. Dudley" in 1563, receiving an annuity later the same year from Queen Elizabeth for his service.

In 1567 he obtained from Elizabeth some protection from his creditors that was extended to 1568. Sir Henry died between 1568 and 1570, but no will or administration of estate has yet been discovered.

Family/Spouse: Ashton. (daughter of C. Ashton) died on 29 Oct 1588. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]