John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle (April 1480 – 9 September 1504) was a British peer of the Tudor period. Upon his death the title

Viscount Lisle The title of Viscount Lisle has been created six times in the Peerage of England. The first creation, on 30 October 1451, was for John Talbot, 1st Baron Lisle. Upon the death of his son Thomas at the Battle of Nibley Green in 1470, the viscoun ...

became extinct, but the Barony of Lisle passed to his unborn daughter Elizabeth, his only child.

Family

Born in 1480, he was the eldest son and heir of

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle (died 1492) was an English nobleman who was created Viscount Lisle in 1483, in recognition of his wife's descent. Origins Sir Edward Grey was a younger son of Sir Edward Grey (c. 1415–1457) (a son by his second ...

and Elizabeth Talbot (d. 1487), 3rd Baroness Lisle, daughter and eventual heiress of John Talbot, 1st Viscount Lisle and 1st Baron Lisle (1423–1453), heiress to the Barony of Lisle. His siblings were: *Anne Grey *

Elizabeth Grey, 6th Baroness Lisle Elizabeth Grey, 6th Baroness Lisle (c.1482/1484 – c.1525/1526) was an English noblewoman during the reigns of Henry VII and VIII. Origins Elizabeth Grey was the daughter of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle (d. 1492) by his wife Eliza ...

(d. 1529), who married twice: **Firstly to

Edmund Dudley Edmund Dudley (c. 1462Gunn 2010 or 1471/147217 August 1510) was an English administrator and a financial agent of King Henry VII. He served as a leading member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons and Presi ...

, treasurer to

King Henry VII Henry VII (28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor. Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufo ...

, executed in 1510 by King Henry VIII **Secondly to

Arthur Plantagenet Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, KG (died 3 March 1542) was an illegitimate son of the English king Edward IV, half-brother-in-law of Henry VII, and an uncle of Henry VIII, at whose court he was a prominent figure and by whom he was app ...

(d.1542), KG, an illegitimate son of King Edward IV, created

in recognition of his wife's ancestry. *Muryell Grey John Grey gained the title Viscount Lisle on the death of his father in 1492.

Personal life

In June 1504 he married Muriel (or Marcella) Howard (died 1512), daughter of

Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (144321 May 1524), styled Earl of Surrey from 1483 to 1485 and again from 1489 to 1514, was an English nobleman, soldier and statesman who served four monarchs. He was the eldest son of John Howard, 1st Du ...

. They were the parents of Elizabeth Grey, 3rd Viscountess Lisle and 5th Baroness Lisle (1505–1519), born after her father's death. His daughter inherited Kibworth Beauchamp Manor in Leicestershire from him. In 1506 his widow married

Thomas Knyvett Sir Thomas Knyvett (also Knevitt or Knivet or Knevet), of Buckenham, Norfolk (c. 1485 – 10 August 1512) was a young English nobleman who was a close associate of King Henry VIII shortly after that monarch came to the throne. According to Hall ...

, who became his daughter's stepfather. After the death of both her mother and Knyvett during 1512 Elizabeth was left an orphan and became the ward of Sir Charles Brandon, to whom she was betrothed in 1513 aged just eight years old. When instead in 1515 he married Mary Tudor he surrendered Elizabeth's wardship. She married Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter but she died before the marriage could be consummated. Lisle died at the family estate

Kingston Lisle Park Kingston Lisle Park is a Grade II* listed Georgian country house and estate in Kingston Lisle, near Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. The house dates from the 17th century and is surrounded by an estate of more ...

in September 1504 aged 24''The New Peerage; or Ancient and Present State of the Nobility of Scotland with the Extinct Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland''
(N.D.) Google Books, p. 518 and was buried in

Abingdon Abbey Abingdon Abbey ( '' " St Mary's Abbey " '' ) was a Benedictine monastery located in the centre of Abingdon-on-Thames beside the River Thames. The abbey was founded c.675 AD in honour of The Virgin Mary. The Domesday Book of 1086 informs ...

.John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle
Smyth's Berkeley Genealogy of 1628

References

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