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Henry Grey, 2nd Earl Of Tankerville
Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville (1420 – 5 January 1450) was an English peer. He was the son of John Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville and his wife Joan Charleton, the 6th Lady of Powys as co-heiress of her father Edward Charlton. Life He became the 2nd Earl of Tankerville on 22 March 1421 (12 March 1420 under the English calendar at the time) and was invested as a knight on May 19 1426. Tankerville had Sir Gruffudd Vychan summarily executed in Powis Castle in 1447, in violation of a safe conduct given. It is not known whether he suspected Vychan of Yorkist sympathies, whether it was in retribution for the death of Sir Christopher Talbot at Sir Gruffudd's hand, or whether he wished to eliminate Vychan's claim to Powis. Marriage and issue He married Antigone Plantagenet, legitimised daughter of Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester. By her he had three children: * Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, married Margaret Touchet, daughter of James Touchet, 5th Baron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It shares Anglo-Scottish border, a land border with Scotland to the north and England–Wales border, another land border with Wales to the west, and is otherwise surrounded by the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south, the Celtic Sea to the south-west, and the Irish Sea to the west. Continental Europe lies to the south-east, and Ireland to the west. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the population was 56,490,048. London is both List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, the largest city and the Capital city, capital. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic. It takes its name from the Angles (tribe), Angles, a Germanic peoples, Germanic tribe who settled du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley
James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet (c. 1398 – 23 September 1459) of Heleigh Castle was an English peer. James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, son of Elizabeth Stafford and her husband John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley, was a distinguished veteran of the Hundred Years' War. In the opening phase of the Wars of the Roses he raised troops from his estates in Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire and commanded the Lancastrian force that moved to block the Yorkist Earl of Salisbury's route to Ludlow where he intended linking up with the rest of the Yorkist army. The two forces clashed in the Battle of Blore Heath on 23 September 1459 and Audley was killed by Sir Roger Kynaston of Stocks near Ellesmere (Kynaston incorporated emblems of the Audley coat-of-arms into his own). Audley's Cross still stands on the battlefield marking the spot where he died. Audley was buried in Darley Abbey, north of Derby, about away from Blore Heath. The Abbey no longer stands, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1420 Births
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Earl Of Tankerville
Earl of Tankerville is a noble title drawn from Tancarville in Normandy. The title has been created three times: twice in the Peerage of England, and once (in 1714) in the Peerage of Great Britain for Charles Bennet, 2nd Baron Ossulston. His father, John Bennett, 1st Baron Ossulston, was the elder brother of Henry Bennett, 1st Earl of Arlington. The family seat was Chillingham Castle in Northumberland. The Earl of Tankerville holds the subsidiary title of Baron Ossulston, of Ossulston in the County of Middlesex (1682), in the Peerage of England. Earls of Tankerville, First Creation (1418) *John Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville (1384–1421) * Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville (1419–1450) * Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville (1436–1466) (lands lost 1453, forfeit 1459) Earls of Tankerville, Second Creation (1695) *see Baron Grey of Werke Barons Ossulston (1682) * John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston (1616–1695) * Charles Bennet, 2nd Baron Ossulston (1674–1722) (crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Kynaston
Humphrey Kynaston (died 1534), aka ''Wild Humphrey Kynaston'',VirtualShropshire.comNesscliffe Country Park was an English highwayman who operated in the Shropshire area.BBC News''Sir Humphrey Kynaston: The elusive highwayman''/ref> The son of the High Sheriff of Shropshire, he was convicted of murder in 1491. After being outlawed, he moved into a cave in the area and lived a lifestyle compared to Robin Hood. Biography Early life Kynaston was the youngest son of Sir Roger Kynaston (c. 1432/1433–1495), High Sheriff of Shropshire, who was thought to have killed Lord Audley at the Battle of Blore Heath, and Roger's second wife, Lady Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville and Antigone Plantagenet, the legitimised daughter of Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester (son of Henry IV and Mary de Bohun) and his second wife Eleanor de Cobham.Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham, David Faris''Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Mediev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Blore Heath
The Battle of Blore Heath took place during the English Wars of the Roses on 23 September 1459, at Blore Heath, Staffordshire. Blore Heath is a sparsely populated area of farmland two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, and close to the village of Loggerheads, Staffordshire. Background After the First Battle of St Albans in 1455, an uneasy peace held in England. Attempts at reconciliation between the houses of Lancaster and York enjoyed marginal success. However, both sides became increasingly wary of each other and by 1459 were actively recruiting armed supporters. Queen Margaret of Anjou continued to raise support for King Henry VI amongst noblemen, distributing an emblem of a silver swan to knights and squires enlisted by her personally, whilst the Yorkist command under the Duke of York was finding plenty of anti-royal support despite the severe punishment for raising arms against the king. The Yorkist force based at Middleham Castle, Yorkshire (led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sheriff Of Shropshire
This is a list of sheriffs and high sheriffs of Shropshire The high sheriff, sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the high sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct so that its functions are now largely ceremonial. From 1204 to 1344 the Sheriff of Staffordshire served also as the Sheriff of Shropshire. Under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 the office previously known as sheriff was retitled high sheriff. The high sheriff changes every March. Sheriff 11th century * Warin the Bald *c. 1086 Rainald De Balliol, De Knightley (1040–1086) *1102 Hugh (son of Warin) 12th century *-1114: Alan fitz Flaad (died 1114) *1127–1137: Pain fitzJohn (died 1137) *1137–1138: William Fitz Allan, Lord of Oswestry, William Fitz Alan (exiled 1138) *1155–1159: William Fitz Allan, Lord of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Roger Kynaston
Sir Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley (ca. 14331495) was a Knight of the Realm and Anglo-Welsh nobleman. He was a member of the Kynaston family, of North Shropshire and the Welsh Marches. Early life Kynaston was the son of Griffin Kynaston (c. 1402), who was the Seneschal of Ellesmere, Shropshire and Margaret Jane Hoord (c. 1423), daughter of John Hoord of Hordley. He was the direct descendant of Gruffydd Fychan ap Iorwerth, the first to hold the surname "Kynaston" and therefore of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, the last Prince of Powys, of the House of Mathrafal. Marriages and children In 1450 on his marriage to his first wife, Elizabeth Cobham (died 1453), he gained the seat of Myddle Castle, Shropshire, as a dowry. He and Elizabeth had one son, Thomas Kynaston (1453–1513), who married Maria Corbett. Thomas became High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1508. After the death of his first wife he married, in 1465, Elizabeth Grey (c. 1440 – 1501), daughter of Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Grey (1440-1501)
Elizabeth Gray or Grey may refer to: People * Elizabeth Gray (Irish artist) (1837–1903), Irish artist * Elizabeth Gray (British artist) (1928–2022), British artist * Elizabeth Gray (broadcaster), (c. 1937–2023), Canadian radio broadcaster *Elizabeth Gray (fossil collector) (1831–1924), Scottish malacologist *Elizabeth Grey, 6th Baroness Lisle (c. 1482–c. 1525), English noble woman who flourished during the reigns of Henry VII and VIII *Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kildare (c. 1497 – after 1548), English noblewoman, and the second wife of Irish peer Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare * Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle (1505–1519), Tudor noblewoman jilted for Mary Tudor * Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent (1582–1651), née Elizabeth Talbot, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury * Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1810–1887), Scottish historian *Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798–1869), English author *Elizabeth Gray Vining (1902–1999), born Elizabeth Gray, librarian *Elizabeth W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Touchet, 5th Baron Audley
James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet (c. 1398 – 23 September 1459) of Heleigh Castle was an English peer. James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, son of Elizabeth Stafford and her husband John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley, was a distinguished veteran of the Hundred Years' War. In the opening phase of the Wars of the Roses he raised troops from his estates in Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire and commanded the Lancastrian force that moved to block the Yorkist Earl of Salisbury's route to Ludlow where he intended linking up with the rest of the Yorkist army. The two forces clashed in the Battle of Blore Heath on 23 September 1459 and Audley was killed by Sir Roger Kynaston of Stocks near Ellesmere (Kynaston incorporated emblems of the Audley coat-of-arms into his own). Audley's Cross still stands on the battlefield marking the spot where he died. Audley was buried in Darley Abbey, north of Derby, about away from Blore Heath. The Abbey no longer stands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grey, 1st Earl Of Tankerville
John Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville ''jure uxoris'' 6th Lord of Powys (after 1384 – 22 March 1421), KG, was an English peer who served with distinction in the Hundred Years' War between England and France under King Henry V. Origins John Grey was the second son of Sir Thomas Grey (1359– 26 November 1400), of Berwick and Chillingham Castle, by his wife Joan Mowbray (d. 1410), a daughter of John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray by Elizabeth de Segrave. Grey family Sir Thomas Grey (1343/4) of Heton, Islandshire in Northumberland, married a certain Agnes, a lady of unrecorded parentage. He fought in many battles for the English king on the Marches of the Scottish borders. He was succeeded by his son: *Sir Thomas Grey (d.1374)), the chronicler, who married Margaret de Pressene, a daughter William de Pressene, of Presson, Northumberland. Sir Thomas fought in many battles, besieged castles, and recorded the events he witnessed in a celebrated historical account of the campaign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Grey, 3rd Earl Of Tankerville
Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, 8th Lord of Powys (5 November 1436 – c. 1466) fought on the side of the House of York in the War of the Roses. Family Sir Richard Grey was the son and heir of Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville and Antigone Plantagenet (illegitimate daughter of Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester). He was born at Pontesbury, Shropshire 5 November 1436. He married before 12 January 1458/1459 Margaret Audley, daughter of James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet (c. 1398–1459), by his second wife, Eleanor, illegitimate daughter of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent and Constance of York. Life The Earldom of Tankerville lost its lands when France was lost to the English crown in 1453. It does not appear "that this nobleman was ever summoned to parliament but strong evidence exists that he sat in assembly as a baron of the realm in 1455", when it is recorded that he swore allegiance to Henry VI as Sir Richard Grey, Lord of Powis. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
