John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle (April 1480 – 9 September 1504) was an English 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 visco ...

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. She is the Grandmother of the disputed Consort of England, Lord Guildford Dudley. Origins Elizabeth Grey ...

(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 Henry VII of England, King Henry VII. He served as a leading member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House o ...

, treasurer to

King Henry VII Henry VII (28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509), also known as Henry Tudor, 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 ...

, executed in 1510 by King Henry VIII **Secondly to Arthur Plantagenet (d.1542), KG, an illegitimate son of King

Edward IV Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England ...

, 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 people, English nobleman, soldier and statesman who served four monarchs. He was the eldest son of John ...

. 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 Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...

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 the 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 Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, 2nd Earl of Devon (c. 1498 – 9 December 1538), feudal baron of Okehampton, feudal baron of Plympton, of Tiverton Castle, Okehampton Castle and Colcombe Castle all in Devon, was a grandson of ...

but she died before the marriage could be consummated. Lisle died at the family estate Kingston Lisle Park 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 (formally Abbey of Saint Mary) was a Order of St. Benedict, Benedictine monastery in Abingdon-on-Thames in the modern county of Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. Situated near to the River Thames, it was founded in 675 AD and was ...

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

References

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