Walter de Grey, Archbishop of York

Abt 1180 - 1255  (~ 75 years)

• Name	Walter de Grey  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Suffix	Archbishop of York
  Birth	Abt 1180  [5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 May 1255	Fulham, London, England   [6]
  Burial	15 May 1255	York Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England   [5]
  Person ID	I11627	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	10 May 2017

  
  

  Father	(Unknown husband of Hawise de Grey)
  Mother	Hawise de Grey
  Family ID	F6713	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Walter de Grey Effigy atop his tomb at York Minster.

  
  

• Notes

  Chancellor to King John from 1205 to 1214. Archbishop of York from 1215 to 1255, in which capacity he began the building of York Minster.

  
  

• Sources

  [S977] The Blackmans of Knight's Creek: Ancestors and Descendants of George and Maria (Smith) Blackman by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1980. [S981] G. Andrews Moriarty, "Genealogical Research in England." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 76:278, October 1922. [S983] Rosie Bevan, 8 Dec 2003, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S984] John P. Ravilious, 1 Dec 2010, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S160] Wikipedia. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.