William Gyse

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Also called William Guise.

William married Mary Rotsey before 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Gyse was born about 1540 in of Elmore, Gloucestershire, England; died on 24 Jan 1588; was buried in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England.

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Also called John Guise.

John married Tacy Grey. Tacy (daughter of John Grey and Anne Grey) died before 15 Nov 1558; was buried on 15 Nov 1558 in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anne Berkeley before 23 Sep 1483. Anne (daughter of William Berkeley and Anne Stafford) died after 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Date of charter. Papal dispensation dated 17 Apr 1484, his first wife Eleanor having been related to his second wife Anne in the second degree of consanguinity.

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8th Lord Grey of Wilton. Summoned to Parliament by writ, 20 Nov 1496.

John married Anne Grey. Anne (daughter of Edmund Grey and Katherine Percy) died before 1498. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or John de Guise.

John married Alice Wysham. Alice (daughter of John Wysham and Margaret Beauchamp) died in 1487. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sheriff of Gloucestershire 1484-85. Knight of the shire for Worcestershire.

He fought for Richard III at Bosworth in 1485, and in the wake of that defeat he was attainted, 7 Nov 1485, and all his estates declared forfeit. The following year the new king, Henry VII, granted what had been William's manor of Northfield, Worcestershire to the king's uncle Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford. In 1489 William was restored in blood, and granted the reversion of Northfield after the death of Jasper Tudor. Despite this, when Jasper died in 1495, the king took possession of Northfield.

William married Anne Stafford. Anne (daughter of Humphrey Stafford and Eleanor Aylesbury) died after 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Reginald Grey. 7th Lord Grey of Wilton. Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 13 Jan 1445 to 12 Aug 1495. He was present at the coronation of Richard III.

Reynold married Tacine of Somerset before 29 Sep 1447. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was born in France during her father's long captivity there. She was officially made a denizen of England on 20 Jun 1443.

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1st Earl of Kent.

Edmund married Katherine Percy before 1440. Katherine (daughter of Henry Percy and Eleanor Neville) was born on 28 May 1423 in Leconfield, Yorkshire, England; died between 2 May 1493 and 17 Oct 1493. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Elmore, Gloucestershire, England

Reynold married Katherine Clifford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret Beauchamp before 1 Jul 1422. Margaret (daughter of John Beauchamp and Isabel Ferrers) was born about 1400; died before 1464. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Knight of the shire for Gloucestershire. Sheriff of Gloucestershire 1430-31, 1436-37. He served in France in the army of John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford.

Maurice married Ellen Montfort before 1428. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Eleanor Montfort.

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Knight of the shire for Worcestershire, 1423-24, 1426, 1447, 1449. Knight of the shire for Staffordshire 1427-28. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1423-24, 1430-01. Sheriff of Worcestershire, 1431-32. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1437-38. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1438-39. Sheriff of Herefordshire and the Welsh Marches, 1446-47.

With his brother William, he led a force of royal loyalists in an attempt to suppress the rebellion of Jack Cade. The royal contingent was ambushed by a larger group of rebels at Sevenoaks and he and his brother were both killed. Cade took the expensive clothing and armor of Humphrey Stafford as his own.

Humphrey married Eleanor Aylesbury after 2 Jan 1424. Eleanor (daughter of Thomas Aylesbury and Katherine Pabenham) was born about 1406; died after 1475. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 15 Jun 1481

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• Alternate death: 20 Aug 1442, Waterhall in Lavendon, Buckinghamshire, England

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6th Lord Grey of Wilton. In 1415 he accompanied the king to France, in the retinue of the Earl of Dorset.

Richard married Blanche. Blanche died before 1426. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Wikipedia (accessed 13 Apr 2021):

John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, 3rd Earl of Somerset [...] was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years War. He was the maternal grandfather of Henry VII.

[...H]e was the second son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1371-1410), the eldest of the four legitimized children of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, by his mistress Katherine Swynford. John of Gaunt was the third surviving son of King Edward III. His wife was Margaret Holland (1385-1439), a daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, the son of Joan "the Fair Maid of Kent", a grand-daughter of King Edward I and wife of Edward the Black Prince (eldest brother of John of Gaunt) and mother of King Richard II.

In 1418 he became 3rd Earl of Somerset, having succeeded his elder brother Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (1401-1418), who died unmarried, aged 17, whilst fighting for the Lancastrian cause at the Siege of Rouen in France, under the command of their uncle Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (1377-1426).

He fought in the 1419 French campaigns of his cousin King Henry V. In 1421 he accompanied his step-father Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence (the king's younger brother) on a campaign in Anjou, France. Thomas was killed at the Battle of Baugé (22 March 1421), while Somerset and his younger brother were captured and imprisoned for 17 years. On 25 March 1425 Somerset came into his majority, but his paternal estates had to be managed by his mother for the next thirteen years of his imprisonment. He remained imprisoned until 1438 and having been ransomed, became one of the leading English commanders in France.

In 1443 John was created Duke of Somerset and Earl of Kendal, was made a Knight of the Garter and appointed Captain-General of Guyenne. He presided over a period during which England lost much territory in France and proved a poor commander. Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, regent for the young King Henry VI, was unable to control the administration of justice and finance, which led to widespread lawlessness. At the beginning of the second protectorate of Richard, Duke of York, Gloucester declined the office of Lieutenant-Governor, which was then accepted by Somerset, who drew from it a salary of 600 pounds.

He was appointed Admiral of the Sea to the army commander John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who from August 1440 besieged Harfleur, which had been in French hands for five months. King Charles VII of France sent a large army under Richemont. The English dug a double ditch rampart with only 1,000 men, while Somerset's squadron prevented a French landing by sea, using archers to pick off the enemy at short range. Having been thus frustrated the French withdrew to Paris and lifted the siege. The town surrendered to the English and was re-occupied. York was incensed that John's uncle Cardinal Henry Beaufort advised the king to sue for peace. Somerset advised King Henry that peace was humanitarian and that the king of France was determined to seize Pontoise. When York arrived in Normandy in 1441 to the campaign, Somerset had resigned. But the fall of Pontoise to Charles, Duke of Orléans in September 1441 weakened English garrisons and in Gascony the situation was even worse. The Beauforts sent Sir Edward Hull, who arrived at Bordeaux on 22 October 1442 to inform York that a huge army would arrive commanded by Somerset. York was ordered to fortify Rouen; just as the king and Dauphin of France were threatening Bordeaux and Aquitaine and seized the town of Dax Somerset dithered; York was held back as Guyenne was being lost.

Meanwhile, the Duke of York, fighting alongside the tactician Lord Talbot, had been appointed Lieutenant for all France. With the Duke of Gloucester's wife Eleanor charged with treason, Somerset took the opportunity in April 1443 to declare himself Lieutenant of Aquitaine and Captain-General of Guyenne. By then, the negotiations Somerset had started as Captain-General of Calais had failed. These two factors turned York against the Beauforts. But the last straw was the payment of £25,000 to Somerset while York remained heavily in debt. Furthermore, Guyenne was consuming precious resources otherwise destined for Normandy.

In August 1443 Somerset led 7,000 men to Cherbourg and marched south to Gascony; the duke was ill. He blundered into Guerche, a Breton town with which England had signed a peace treaty. But Somerset set all prisoners free, accepting money from the Duke of Brittany. Marching aimlessly through Maine, he returned that winter to England. His death in 1444, possibly by suicide, and that of his uncle the Cardinal, marked the end of Beaufort influence and left the door open for William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, to dominate the government.[9] The lasting effect of these events was burning resentment between the House of York and the remaining members of the Beaufort family.

John married (Unknown mistress of John Beaufort). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Constance Holand before 1410. Constance (daughter of John Holand and Elizabeth of Lancaster) died on 12 Nov 1437; was buried in St. Katherine by the Tower, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 14 Nov 1437

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He was restored as Earl of Northumberland in 1416 and regranted his father's entailed estates. He was knighted by the king, to whom he remained faithful all his life. He was slain fighting for the Lancastrian cause at the First Battle of St. Albans.

Henry married Eleanor Neville. Eleanor (daughter of Ralph de Neville and Joan Beaufort) died about 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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“A man of violent behavior, beginning with the manslaughter of John Taylor, chaplain of Saul Chapel, near Fretherne, in 1385. In July 1387, he purchased for £100 at the Exchequer, a ship called the Holygost, and offered his service in Sept 1394 when he joined the royal expedition to Ireland. About July 1403, he and William Rye took command of a small fleet assembled at Bristol and invaded Glamorganshire, in Wales. Knight of the Shire for Gloucester, 1404. In 1405, he was again charged with murder by a hired assassin and imprisoned for 2 years. He was pardoned 14 Dec 1406 after a payment of 200 marks.” [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

James married Joan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Margaret de Clifton. Margaret (daughter of Adam de Clifton) died after 1411. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Knight of the shire for Worcestershire, 1401, 1404, and 1414. He was a godson of King Richard II.

"By the reversal of the proceedings of the Merciless Parliament in 1398, he became 2^nd Lord Beauchamp of Kidderminster. [...] On the accession of King Henry IV in 1399, his father's attainder was reaffirmed and his honors were again forfeited." [Douglas Richardson, citation details below]

John married Isabel Ferrers before 1397. Isabel (daughter of Henry de Ferrers and Joan de Poynings) died before 12 Oct 1410. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maurice married Joan Dinham before May 1400. Joan (daughter of John de Dinham and Muriel Courtenay) died on 22 Aug 1412. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also spelled Dynham.

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Steward of the household of Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. Knight of the shire for Warwickshire 1422-23, 1427, 1429, 1437, 1445, 1450. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1431-32, 1441-42, 1450-51.

William married Margaret Pecche before 1407. Margaret (daughter of John Pecche and Katherine) was born on 30 Apr 1386; died before Apr 1417. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Knight of the shire for Worcestershire, 1415.

From Wikipedia:

Stafford's early life has been described by Carol Rawcliffe as being 'full of violent incident.' In early 1401, he was suspected of the murder of a Worcestershire man, but although the earl of Warwick was sent to arrest him, he appears to have avoided capture. His father entered into bonds to keep the peace with the victim's family, and within a coupe of years, Humphrey Stafford was a member of the Prince of Wales' retinue. He probably fought with him at the Battle of Shrewsbury (21 July 1403), and by 1404, he had received a Royal pardon for the murder and exoneration by the King's council. His father and uncle (Humphrey Stafford (died 1413) provided securities for him. However, he was soon further embroiled in law-breaking and violence. In 1405, William, Lord Abergavenny accused him of illegally entering Bergavenny's manor and forest of Feckenham, including illegally hunting and fishing, and beating up his reatiners. At least one of those servants succeeded in having Stafford bound over to keep the peace with him.

In 1410, Stafford was elected MP for Worcestershire, and a year later his father died, leaving him a patrimony based there, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. Following his father's death, he again agreed to join the Prince of Wales' army in Calais, although probably did not leave until early 1412. Rawcliffe notes that at some point around this time, Stafford had patched up relations with some of his earlier adversaries. For example, the earl of Warwick appointed him deputy Sheriff of Worcestershire in November 1411, and when he was elected MP in 1415 his running mate was the same retainer of Lord Bergavenny that had successfully had him bound-over ten years earlier.

Stafford joined the second royal campaign to France in 1417, during which campaign in Normandy he was appears to have been knighted. It also seems that it was on this campaign that Humphrey Stafford died on 20 February 1419.

Humphrey married Elizabeth Burdet before 1400. Elizabeth (daughter of John Burdet and Katherine Arderne) died before 1419. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1369, of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England

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"Knighted 14 Aug 1378 while serving at sea in the retinue of Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham. Knight of the Shire for Buckingham, 1391 and 1397; Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, 1399-1404, for Cambridgeshire, 1401-07, and for Huntingdonshire, 1405-07. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1412-13." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Thomas married Katherine Pabenham before Dec 1399. Katherine (daughter of Laurence Pabenham and Elizabeth d'Engaine) was born about 1372; died on 17 Jun 1436. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 17 Jul 1436

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5th Lord Grey of Wilton. He was summoned to Parliament 1 Dec 1376 by a writ directed Henrico de Grey de Shirlond, and from 4 Aug 1377 to 20 Nov 1394 by writs directed Henrico de Grey de Wilton.

Henry married Elizabeth Talbot about 4 May 1370. Elizabeth (daughter of Gilbert Talbot and Pernel le Boteler) died on 10 Jan 1402. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1st Earl of Somerset. "[A] crusader, created Earl 1396/7 the day following his legitimation, a Lord appellant against the Duke of Gloucester, Admiral of the Fleet, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, Chamberlain and Constable of England, Captain of Calais, etc., in favor with King Henry IV, received the forfeited estates of Owen Glendower." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

John married Margaret Holand before 28 Sep 1397. Margaret (daughter of Thomas de Holland and Alice Fitz Alan) died on 31 Dec 1439 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England; was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 18 Oct 1440

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Governor in Ireland; Privy Councillor to Henry IV.

Summoned to Parliament by writs, 6 Dec 1389 to 26 Sep 1439.

Reynold Grey (d. 1440) = Joan Astley
Robert Grey (d. 1460) = Eleanor Lowe
Humphrey Grey (d. 1499) = Anne Fielding (d. 1507)
Marjory Grey (d. >1525) = Richard de St. Barbe (d. 1530)
Thomas St. Barbe (d. 1563) = Joan (d. 1573)
George St. Barbe = Mary Warburton
Ursula St. Barbe = William Ussher (d. 1671)
Adam Ussher, Archdeacon of Clonfert (1650-1713) = Rebecca Wye (d. 1694)
William Ussher, Archdeacon of Clonfert (1680-1744) = Mary Jenney
Mary Jenney Ussher = Richard Molesworth (d. 1758)
Henrietta Molesworth = John Staples (1736-1820)
Elizabeth Staples = Rev. Hugh Hamilton
Rev. Thomas Hamilton (1826-1905) = Mary Warren (1826-1916)
Florence Augusta Hamilton (1862-1908) = Albert James Lewis (1863-1929)
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963)

Making TNH a half 13th cousin 6 times removed to C. S. Lewis.

Reynold married Margaret de Ros after 25 Nov 1378. Margaret (daughter of Thomas de Ros and Beatrice de Stafford) was born in of Helmsley, Yorkshire, England; died before 1415. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 10 Jan 1400, Pleshey Castle, Essex, England

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1st Duke of Exeter. 1st Earl of Huntingdon. "[A] a half-brother of King Richard II (1377–1399), to whom he remained strongly loyal. He is primarily remembered for being suspected of assisting in the downfall of King Richard's uncle Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355–1397) (youngest son of King Edward III) and then for conspiring against King Richard's first cousin and eventual deposer, Henry Bolingbroke, later King Henry IV (1399–1413)." [Wikipedia]

He was beheaded following the failure of the Epiphany Rising conspiracy against the newly-crowned Henry IV.

John married Elizabeth of Lancaster on 24 Jun 1386 in Plymouth, Devon, England. Elizabeth (daughter of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster) was born before 21 Feb 1363. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 30 May 1364

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The holder of many offices and titles, he was knighted by Edward III in April 1377 along with the future kings Richard II and Henry IV, who were almost exactly his age. Not long after the latter ascended the throne, Henry Percy went into open rebellion, and was slain at the battle of Shrewsbury. His body was buried at Whitchurch, Shropshire, but was disinterred two days later to be exhibited in Shrewsbury. The head was cut off and fixed onto one of the gates of York.

Henry married Elizabeth Mortimer before 10 Dec 1379. Elizabeth (daughter of Edmund Mortimer and Philippe of Clarence) was born on 12 Feb 1371 in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales; was christened on 16 Feb 1371; died on 20 Apr 1417. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 13 Feb 1371, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales

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Aside from being the maternal grandfather of Edward IV, he was also the paternal grandfather (through his son Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400–1460), and Alice Montacute) of the "Kingmaker," Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471).

Ralph married Joan Beaufort before 29 Nov 1396. Joan (daughter of John of Gaunt and Catherine de Roet) was born about 1379; died on 13 Nov 1440 in Howden, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Countess of Westmorland.