Henry de Grey

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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]

1. Margaret Grey died on 1 Jun 1454.
2. Richard Grey was born about 1393 in of Wilton, Herefordshire, England; died on 13 Aug 1442 in Waterhall in Lavendon, Buckinghamshire, England; was buried in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England.

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4th Lord Grey of Wilton. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 Feb 1343 to 20 Nov 1360 by writs directed Reginaldo de Grey.

Reynold married Maud Botetort before 10 Jan 1328. Maud (daughter of Thomas Botetourt and Joan de Somery) died on 14 Sep 1391 in Shirland, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 28 Oct 1282, of Wilton, Herefordshire, England
• Alternate death: 16 Dec 1342

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3rd Lord Grey of Wilton. He was summoned to Parliament from 10 Oct 1325 to 3 Mar 1341 by writs directed Henrico de Grey.

Douglas Richardson (citation details below) says that he "allegedly" married Anne de la Rochelle (or de la Rokelle), allegedly daughter and heiress of Ralph de la Rochelle by Isabel, daughter of William de Clare.

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• Alternate birth: of Essex, England
• Alternate death: Aug 1322

Thomas married Joan de Somery before 1318. Joan (daughter of Roger de Somery and Agnes) died after 1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 18 Jan 1327
• Alternate death: Bef 12 Feb 1338

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2nd Lord Grey of Wilton. Summoned to Parliament by writ 4 Mar 1309 to 18 Sep 1322. Fought at Bannockburn.

Justiciar of North Wales and Keeper of the King's lands and castles in those parts.

John married Maud de Verdun before 1275 and 1276. Maud (daughter of John de Verdun and Eleanor de Bohun) was born in of Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England; died after 1293. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Buteturte; Boutecourte; Botecourt; Butecourt.

"In 1294 when the king faced the threat of French galleys raiding the south coast of England, he appointed two household knights, William de Leybourne and John Botetourt, as captain and sub-captain of the fleet. In the following year they were described as admirals--the first use of the term in England. In 1296 he commanded 94 ships taken from ports between Harwich and King's Lynn, the great majority from Yarmouth." [Royal Ancestry]

"He was summoned to Parliament from 13 July 1305 to 13 Sep. 1324, by writs directed Johanni Botetourt, whereby he may be held to have become Lord Botetourt." [Royal Ancestry]

"A distinguished soldier; Gov. of St. Briavel's Castle, co. Gloucester, 1291; Adm. for the Northern Seas 1294-97, and again 1315. He was one of the Barons who signed the letter to the Pope in 1301, and was sum. to Parl. from 13 July (1305) 33 Edw. I to 13 Sep. (1324) 18 Edw. II, by writs directed Johanni Botetourt, whereby he may be held to have become Lord Botetourt. Gov. of Framlingham Castle, 1314. He joined in the rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and fought at Boroughbridge, 16 Mar. 1321/2, for which he was fined £1,000, and was pardoned 8 Oct. 1322. He m., probably soon after 1 July 1285, when she was a minor, certainly before June 1292, Maud, sister and h. of Otes Fitz Thomas, being da. of Thomas Fitz Otes, of Mendelsham, Suffolk, by Betarice, 3rd da. and coh. of William de Beauchamp, feudal Lord of Bedford. He d. 25 Nov 1324. His widow was living 28 May 1329." [Complete Peerage II: 233-35]

He has been claimed by some (including CP volume XIV) as an illegitimate son of Edward I, a claim dismantled in F. N. Craig's 1988 "The Parentage of John Boutetourt" (citation details below). William Addams Reitwiesner commented on the history of this claim here.

John married Maud fitz Thomas before Jun 1282. Maud (daughter of Thomas fitz Otes and Beatrice de Beauchamp) was born in 1269; died before 27 Nov 1328. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1271
• Alternate birth: Abt 1269-1272
• Alternate death: Aft 28 May 1329

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Also called Maud (or Matilda) Fitz Otto, Fitz Otes, etc.

"As a descendant of Otto the goldsmith, she held the hereditary serjeantry of the Cutter of the Dies, whose duty was to supervise die production in London for distribution to the many regional mints. [...John de Boutetourt] died in 1324. [...Maud] survived and in 1329 sold the office of graver and worker of the dies in the Tower of London and the city of Canterbury which was held in chief, to William Le Latymer (Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III 1:391), who had married her daughter Elizabeth. [F. N. Craig, "Descent from a Domesday Goldsmith." The American Genealogist 65:1, January 1990, p. 24.]

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• Alternate birth: 24 Jun 1255, of Dudley, Worcestershire, England

Roger married Agnes. Agnes died before 23 Nov 1308. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 23 Nov 1308
• Alternate death: Bef 24 Nov 1308

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• Alternate birth: of Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales

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Justiciar of Chester. "Summoned to Parl. 1290 or before" [Complete Peerage V, "Pedigree of Grey" chart.]

"Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1265-1266; Justice of Chester, Constable of Chester Castle, and Sheriff of Cheshire 1270-1274.; Justice of Chester and Keeper of Cheshire 1281-1299. Fought in the Welsh War of 1277 when he was a knight banneret and at the battle of Falkirk, 22 July 1298." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Despite the spelling difference, he is the Grey after whom Gray's Inn, one of the Inns of Court, is named.

Reynold married Maud de Longchamp. Maud (daughter of Henry de Longchamp and Joan) was born in of Wilton, Herefordshire, England; died before 21 Nov 1302. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 21 Nov 1302

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• Alternate death: 21 Oct 1274

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Also called Sir John le Botiller; Sir John le Boteler; John le Botiller de Verdun.

Ally of the King against Simon de Montfort. Went to Sicily, 1271, on crusade with Lord Edward (later Edward I).

The Wallop Family claims that has was "slain in Ireland", a circumstance and place not mentioned in RA. CP says "He is said to have d. 21 Oct 1274" and footnotes this with: "Though the writ appears to have been issued, 17 Oct. [...] According to the Annals of Clonmacnoise, he and 13 knights were poisoned together in England."

John married Eleanor de Bohun before 1267. Eleanor (daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Maud of Avenbury) died after 10 Jun 1278. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1276

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"Sometime after [10 Jun 1278], members of Eleanor's household petitioned the king, stating that she was mad and an imbecile, and requested a suitable wardship for her." [Royal Ancestry]

Peter Stewart, 2 Dec 2020, post to soc.genealogy.medieval:

There is no question that [Humphrey de Bohun, d. 1265, and his wife Eleanor de Briouze] did have a daughter named Eleanor, but she was the second wife of Robert de Ferrers, 6th earl of Derby, from June 1269 whereas the other Eleanor de Bohun, wife of John de Verdon, was widowed in 1274. The latter couple had a son named Humphrey—presumably after her father—born on 4 June 1267, and she had the Verdon and Bohun bearings on her seal. The Eleanor married to Robert de Ferrers was described as sister to Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd earl of Hereford (son of Humphrey who died in 1265 by Eleanor de Braiose) in the close roll for 1290 (Edward I, vol 3 p. 119: "Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, and Eleanor de Ferrariis, his sister, acknowledge that they owe to Robert de Tibotot and Matthew de Columbariis, the king’s butler, 200l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in cos. Hereford and Essex"). Two witnesses at the IPM of this Eleanor's son John, 1st lord Ferrers of Chartley, quoted in CP vol. 5 pp. 305-306 note (d), placed her as the granddaughter of Humphrey de Bohun who was clearly the 2nd earl of Hereford and 7th of Essex.

The most likely answer seems to me that John de Verdon's wife Eleanor de Bohun was a paternal half-sister of Humphrey the husband of Eleanor de Braiose, i.e. a daughter of the 2nd earl of Herford by his second wife, Maud de Avenbury. This would account for her evident family connection as well as the chronology placing her apparently around 20 years younger than the daughters of the 2nd earl by his first wife, Maud de Lusignan.

The double Verdon-Bohun marriages posited by [Mark S. Hagger, The Fortunes of a Norman Family, The Verduns in England, Ireland, and Wales, 1066-1316], including his Matilda who was actually named Margery or Margaret to John's son Theobald I, are somewhat downscale socio-politically from the Ferrers marriage of the 3rd earl's sister. Maybe Margery was also a near-contemporary half-blood aunt of the 3rd earl, another daughter of the 2nd earl by Maud de Avenbury. At any rate Hagger's placing her as a sister of the third earl would entail a second-cousin marriage between her son Theobald II de Verdon and Maud de Mortimer, both in that case great-grandchildren of William de Braiose and Eve Marshal.

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• Alternate death: Aft 1316

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Living 1274, 1316.

Guy married Ada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living 1308, 1312.

Douglas Richardson has speculated that she was a daughter of Henry de Tibetot of Shopland, Essex by his wife Alda.

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• Alternate death: Bef 28 Mar 1274

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Also called Thomas fitz Otto.

Hereditary Coiner of the Mint in the Tower of London and City of Canterbury.

"In [1261] the king took the homage of Thomas and granted him the serjeanty (Excerpta E Rotulis Fiunium [London 1835-36] 2:355). In 1265 Thomas son of Otto was to be given the scrap iron from the broken dies, as his father Otto son of William and his ancestors had had (Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III 13:19)."

Thomas married Beatrice de Beauchamp before 1264. Beatrice (daughter of William de Beauchamp and Idonea de Longespée) died about 1281. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 30 Sep 1285

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"She was a daughter of William Beauchamp and his second wife Idonea, daughter of William Longespee, a natural son of king Henry II." [F. N. Craig, "Descent from a Domesday Goldsmith." The American Genealogist 65:1, January 1990, p. 24.]

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• Alternate death: 1272
• Alternate death: Bef 27 Aug 1273

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Fought at Evesham on the King's side, according to the CP entry on his son-in-law Ralph Basset. Earlier, according to The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, he was taken prisoner with the King at the battle of Lewes.

Roger married Amabil de Chaucombe after 8 Oct 1254. Amabil (daughter of Robert de Chaucombe and Juliana de Cornhill) was born in of Chacombe, Northamptonshire, England; died about 1278 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England; was buried in Chaucombe Priory, Chaucombe, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1281

John married Emma de Cauz after 28 Oct 1230. Emma (daughter of Roger de Cauz and Nichole de Leigh) died about 1250. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1200, of Boxted, Suffolk, England
• Alternate death: 19 Jul 1230, Poitou, Aquitaine, France

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Also called Theobald Walter. Second Chief Butler of Ireland.

"Theobald Butler, or le Botiller, only s. and h., aged 6 years in 1206. He had livery of his estates 2 July 1221 and 18 July 1222. He was sum. cum equis et armis to attend the King into Brittany, 26 Oct. 1229, as Theobaldus Pincerna. Was Lord Justice [I.], 1247. He m., 1stly, Joan, sister and in her issue coh. of John du Marais, da. of Geoffrey Du M., Justiciar [I.]. He m., 2ndly (shortly after 4 Sep. 1225, when the King requests such marriage), Rohese, only da. and h. of Nicholas de Verdon, of Alton, co. Stafford, which Rohese was heiress of Croxden, &c., and Foundress of Grace Dieu Monastery, co. Leicester. He d. 19 July 1230, in Poitou, and was bur. in the Abbey of Arklow. His widow d. before 22 Feb. 1246/7." [Complete Peerage II:448]

Theobald married Rohese de Verdun after 4 Sep 1225. Rohese (daughter of Nicholas de Verdun and Clemencia) died before Feb 1247. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 10 Feb 1247
• Alternate death: Bef 22 Feb 1247

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Founded Grace-Dieu Priory in Leicestershire, sometime between 1235 and 1241.

Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage points out that omitted from her husband's CP entry is the fact that Rohese was the widow of William Perceval de Somery, who died before 20 Jun 1222, when she and Theobald le Boteler married.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1200

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Earl of Hereford and, from 27 Aug 1236, Earl of Essex.

Hereditary Constable of England; Constable of the Exchequer 1228; Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports 1239-41; Sheriff of Kent 1239-41; Warden of the Marches of Wales 1245; a crusader in 1250; Privy Councillor 1258; Justice of Assize at Cardiff 1261; Chief Captain of the Army in Wales 1263; Constable of Haye, Huntingdon, and Tregruk Castles.

"After his father's death William Brewer had custody of Caldicot [Monmouth] and of Walton in Surrey, but Humphrey had livery of Caldicot Castle and all lands held in chief the next year, the King having taken his homage. He joined the Earl of Cornwall in his quarrel with the King in 1227. In 1228/9 he had an acquittance for 15 1/5 fees of the moiety of the fees of Trowbridge. At the coronation of Queen Eleanor in 1236 he was Marshal of the Household. He had livery of his mother's lands 9 Sep. 1236. In 1237 he went on a pilgrimage to Santiago. He was appointed constable of Dover Castle 27 Feb. 1238/9, which he surrendered 4 Nov. 1241, and during these years was sheriff of Kent. He stood sponsor at the baptism of Edward I in 1239. In 1242 he was in the expedition to France, but returned because of the King's foreign favourites. In 1244 the cause of the Welsh rising is assigned to his having kept in his hand the inheritance of the wife of David, s. of Llewelyn, Prince of Wales. He joined in the remonstrance to the Pope in 1246, and was present at the Great Council of 1248. In 1250 he was among those who took the Cross. On 13 Sep. 1251 he had licence to make his will. He was present at the sentence of excommunication against the transgressors of the charters (1253). He had a protection 15 Nov. 1253 for as long as the King remained in Gascony, and was with him there in 1254, but withdrew (having the King's permission) after failing to obtain satisfaction in a matter concerning his jurisdiction as constable. On 18 Dec. 1253 he and his eld. s. Humphrey had licence to hunt hare, fox, cat and other wild beasts in the forests of Bradon and Savernake, Wilts. In 1257 he was appointed to keep the marches between Montgomery and the land of the Earl of G1oucester, and had a protection 22 Oct. on staying in Wales in the service of Prince Edward. In 1258 he was one of the 24 councillors to draw up the Provisions of Oxford, being chosen among the Barons' twelve, and was thereafter one of the fifteen chosen to advise the King on all points; he was also one of the twelve elected by the Barons to represent the community in three annual parliaments, and was one of the 24 who were concerned in treating of aids. In 1259 he was the King's representative (with the Count of Aumale) for the preservation of peace between France and England; was concerned with Llywellyn ap Gruffydd in the matter of the truce; and was one of the commissioners who ratified the treaty between France and England in July. On 10 Aug. 1260 he was sent to treat for peace with Llywellyn, and on 25 Aug. 1262 was one of the commissioners to meet Llywellyn's commissioners at the Ford of Montgomery. He had a grant of the custody of the lands of the late Earl of Gloucester 18 July 1262. In the struggle of 1263/4 he took the side of the King; was one of the keepers of the City of London, 9 Oct. 1265, and one of the plenipotentiaries for the Dictum of Kenilworth." [Complete Peerage 6:459]

Humphrey married Maud of Avenbury. Maud died on 8 Oct 1273 in Sorges, Gascony, France; was buried after 8 Oct 1273 in Sorges, Gascony, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Buried: 1290, Llanthony Priory, outside Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England

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Her parentage is not established. Douglas Richardson calls her "presumably" a sister of Walter, Osbert, and Master Giles de Avenbury. Complete Peerage notes that "[a] Walter de Avenbury paid 4,000 marks in 1250 for the custody of the land and heir of Richard de Anesy, and in 1273 a Walter de Avenbury was late collector of the 20th in Hereford."

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Living 1253, 1264.

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Also called Otto.

Hereditary coiner of the Mint. "By 1219 Otto had succeeded his father and was holding Lisson Green by the serjeanty of custodian of the dies. [F. N. Craig, "Descent from a Domesday Goldsmith." The American Genealogist 65:1, January 1990, p. 24.]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1186, of Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft 28 Dec 1260

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Baron of the Exchequer. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire 1235-37.

"He joined the baronial host at Stamford in 1215, and entertained them at Bedford as they marched on London. He was among the baronial leaders excommunicated by name in Dec. 1215. [...] He was taken prisoner at Lincoln by the royal forces in May 1217, but made his peace before the end of the year." [Royal Ancestry]

William married Idonea de Longespée about Jan 1220. Idonea (daughter of William I Longespée and Ela of Salisbury) died after 1266. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1270

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Also called Ida de Longespee, but not to be confused with her sister Ida de Longespee.

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• Alternate death: Aft 29 Sep 1210
• Alternate death: 1211

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Note that although Dudley town is in Worcestershire, Dudley Castle was across the county border in Staffordshire.

Ralph married Margaret le Gras before 1194. Margaret (daughter of William le Gras and (Unknown) Marshal) died after 14 Jun 1247. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Margaret Marshal.

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• Alternate death: Aft 13 Sep 1246

Robert married Juliana de Cornhill. Juliana (daughter of William de Cornhill) was born in of Cornhill, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]