Sir John Grey KG (c. 1387 – 27 August 1439), English nobleman and soldier, of Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales, Badmondisfield (in Wickhambrook), Suffolk, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, etc., second but eldest surviving son and heir apparent of Sir

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by his 1st wife, Margaret Roos.Douglas Richardson. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families,'' Genealogical Publishing, 2005. pg 380-81
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in 1427-28, acting mainly through the

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as his Deputy. He travelled with the king to France in 1415 and 1417. He fought at the

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and was invested as the 151st

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on 5 May 1436. He married (first) before Trinity term 1410 (as her second husband) Constance Holland (c.1387–14 November 1437), the daughter of

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(half brother of King

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), by his wife,

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. By her mother, Constance was a niece of King Henry IV. Constance married (first) before 1 June 1402 (by papal dispensation dated 18 Sept. 1391, they being related in the fourth degree of kindred) Sir

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, Earl of Nottingham, Earl Marshal, Lord Mowbray, Segrave, and Gower. They had no issue. Sir Thomas Mowbray was executed on 8 June 1405 due to his revolt against her uncle, King Henry IV. Sir John Grey and Constance Holland had three children: * Sir

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(1416–1490) * Sir Thomas Grey, Lord Richemount Grey, of Simpson, Buckinghamshire, Richemount, Bedfordshire, Merton, Westmorland, Langton, Yorkshire, etc., Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, 1453–8, Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire, 1455. He was created Baron of Richemount Grey by charter dated 25 June 1450, with remainder to his heirs male. He fought on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461. He was subsequently attainted Nov. 1461 by the first Parliament of King Edward IV, whereby his honours and lands were forfeited, and he was executed soon afterwards.R. Ian Jack, ‘Grey family (per. 1325–1523)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008. * Constance Grey, who married Sir Richard Herbert. Constance, Countess Marshal, died 12 (or 14) Nov. 1437, and was buried in a chapel at St. Katherine by the Tower, London by her brother, John Holland, Duke of Exeter. Following her death, Sir John Grey married (2nd) before 1 July 1438 Margaret Mowbray, daughter of

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and widow of

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. They had no issue.

Death

Sir John Grey died on 27 August 1439, in his father's lifetime. His widow, Margaret, received a papal indult for a portable altar on 3 August 1446. She died shortly before 18 October 1459.

References

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