George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, (1454 – 25 December 1505) was the son of
Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent and
Lady Katherine Percy. He was the Second Earl of Kent from 1490 to 1505.
Biography
George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent and 5th Baron Grey de Ruthyn, was the second son of the 1st Earl, his elder brother having died in 1480. He was made a Knight of the Bath by King Richard III in July 1483. He was a Justice of the Peace for Huntingdonshire from 1480, for Northamptonshire from 1480 and for Bedfordshire from 1483, for Buckinghamshire from 1494 and for Kent from 1496.
Grey fought for Henry VII against the Yorkist pretender
Lambert Simnel at the
Battle of Stoke Field on 16 June 1487. In 1491 he was a commissioner to raise money in Bedfordshire for a war against France. On 17 June 1497, he again fought in a royal army when it defeated Cornish rebels at the
Battle of Deptford Bridge (also known as the Battle of Blackheath).
Grey died at
Ampthill
Ampthill () is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It lies between Bedford, Bedfordshire, Bedford and Luton. At the 2021 census it had a population of 8,825.
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in December 1505. Earlier that year he had attended court on the visit of King
Philip I of Castile
Philip the Handsome (22 June/July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called the Fair, was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1482 to 1506, as well as the first Habsburg King of Castile (as Philip I) for a bri ...
(1504–1506) A letter from William Makefyr to Robert D'arcy and Giles Alington of 17 January 1506 reads
RT190/45 "The Earl of Kent was mounted on a sorrelled horse, harness of Venice gold with a deep fringe half a yard in length. My Lord of Kent's Coat was one bar of Gold Cloth and another crimson Velvet with a demi-mache cut off by the elbow…a true soldier too, and a favourite of Henry but survived this pageant a very short time, dying within the year".
Family
Grey married
Anne
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female name Anna (name), Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah (given name), Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie (given name), Annie a ...
(died 30 July 1489), daughter of
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (1405 – 12 August 1469), also Wydeville, was the father of Elizabeth Woodville and father-in-law of Edward IV.
Early life
Born at Maidstone in Kent, Richard Woodville was the son of Richard Wydeville ...
, and
Jacquetta of Luxembourg. They had a single son:
*
Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent (1481–1524).
Grey secondly married Catherine (died 1506), daughter of
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and
Anne Devereux. They had four children:
*Lady
Anne Grey (1490–1545). Married
John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford.
*
Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent (c. 1495 – 1562).
*George Grey.
*Anthony Grey. Paternal grandfather of
Anthony Grey, 9th Earl of Kent
Notes
References
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External links
Profile Tudorplace.com. Accessed 7 January 2023.
stirnet.com. Accessed 7 January 2023.
The Earls of Kent, bedfordshire.gov.uk. Accessed 7 January 2023.
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Earls of Kent (1465 creation)
1454 births
1505 deaths
15th-century English people
16th-century English nobility
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Barons Grey of Ruthin
Knights of the Bath
English justices of the peace