GREY FAMILY

III. WILTON LINE

John De GREY (Sir Sheriff of Buckingham & Bedford)

Born: 1205, Shirland, Derbyshire, England / 1214, Thurrock, Essex, England

Died: ABT 18 Mar 1265/6, Shirland, Derby, England

Buried: Shirland, Derbyshire, England

Notes: Justice of Chester. Vernon M. Norr (Some Early English Pedigrees) says that he married Maud De Longchamp, dau. of Godfrey Longchamp (signer of Magna Charta) and Isabel/Elizabeth Minors.

Father: Henry De GREY (Sir)

Mother: Isolda De BARDOLPH

Married 1: Emma De GLANVILLE (dau. of Geoffrey de Glanville; Lord of Bromholm and Margaret de la Haye) ABT 1230

Children:

1. Emma De GREY

Married 2: Emma De CAUZ (dau. of Roger de Cauz and Nicole Leigh, dau. of Bartholomew Leigh) ABT 1232, Shirland, Derbyshire, England

Children:

2. Reginald De GREY (1° B. Grey of Wilton)

Married 3: Joan De PEVERE 17 Oct 1251, London, Middlesex, England

Children:

3. Hawise De GREY

Emma De GREY

Died: ABT 1264

Father: John De GREY (Sir Sheriff of Buckingham & Bedford)

Mother: Emma De GLANVILLE

Married: William De HUNTINGFIELD (Sir) (b. 1237 - d. 1290)

Children:

1. Roger De HUNTINGFIELD

2. Isabel De HUNTINGFIELD

Hawise De GREY

Born: ABT 1251

Father: John De GREY (Sir Sheriff of Buckingham & Bedford)

Mother: Joan De PEVERE

Married: Ralph BASSET (Sir Knight)

Children:

1. Margaret BASSET (C. Hereford)

2. Ralph BASSET (B. Bassett)

Reginald De GREY (1° B. Grey of Wilton)

Died: 5 Apr 1308, Ruthin, Denbigh, Wales

Notes: Baron of Ruthin, Denbigh, Wales; Wilton, Hereford; Sherland, Derby; Rushton, Chester; Purleigh, Essex; Toseland, Hemingford & Yelling, Hunts; Water Eaton or Waterhall, Snellson a& Great Brickhill, Bucks, Thurleigh, Wrest a& Brogborough, Beds ., England

Father: John De GREY (Sir Sheriff of Buckingham & Bedford)

Mother: Emma De CAUZ

Married 1: Maud FITZHUGH

Married 2: Maud DE LONGCHAMP (dau. of Henry de Longchamp and Joan ?) BEF 1272

Children:

1. John De GREY (2° B. Grey of Wilton)

2. Maud De GREY

Maud De GREY

Born: ABT 1272, Wilton, England

Father: Reginald De GREY (1° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Maud FITZHUGH / Maud de LONGCHAMP

Married: John De MOELS (1° B. Moels) (b. 1269 - d. 1310)

John De GREY (2° B. Grey of Wilton)

Born: 1258/60, Ruthyn, Denbigh Died: 28 Oct 1323 Father: Reginald De GREY (1° B. Grey of Wilton) Mother: Maud FITZHUGH / Maud de LONGCHAMP Married 1: Anne De FERRERS (B. Grey of Wilton) ABT 1285, Groby, Leicestershire, England Children:

1. Joan De GREY (B. Bassett)

2. Henry De GREY (3° B. Grey of Wilton)

Married 2: Maud BASSETT (B. Grey of Wilton) ABT 1289, Drayton, Staffordshire, England

Children:

3. Roger De GREY (1° B. Grey of Ruthin)

4. Maud De GREY

3. Henry De GREY (b. 1294 - d. ABT 1353)

Joan De GREY (B. Bassett)

Died: BEF 5 Apr 1353

Father: John De GREY (2° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Anne De FERRERS (B. Grey of Wilton)

Married: Ralph BASSETT (B. Bassett)

1. Margaret BASSETT

Henry De GREY (3° B. Grey of Wilton)

Born: 28 Oct 1281/2, Wilton, Herefordshire, England

Died: 10 Dec 1342

Father: John De GREY (2° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Anne De FERRERS (B. Grey of Wilton)

Married: Anne De ROCKLEY ABT 1310

Children:

1. Reginald De GREY (4º B. Grey of Wilton)

Reginald De GREY (4º B. Grey of Wilton)

Born: 1 Nov 1311

Died: 28 May 1370

Father: Henry De GREY (3° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Anne De ROCKLEY

Married: Maud De BOTETOURTE (B. Grey of Wilton) (b. ABT 1315 - d. 14 Sep 1391)

Children:

1. Henry GREY (5º B. Grey of Wilton)

2. Petronella GREY

Petronella GREY

Died: 8 Apr 1414

Father: Reginald De GREY (4º B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Maud De BOTETOURTE (B. Grey of Wilton)

Henry GREY (5º B. Grey of Wilton)

Born: BET 1338 / 1340, Wilton, Herefordshire, England

Died: 22 Apr 1396

Father: Reginald De GREY (4º B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Maud De BOTETOURTE (B. Grey of Wilton)

Married: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Grey of Wilton) BEF 3 Feb 1379

Children:

1. Margaret GREY (B. Darcy of Knaith)

2. Richard GREY (6º B. Grey of Wilton)

Margaret GREY (B. Darcy of Knaith)

Died: 1 Jun 1454

Father: Henry GREY (5º B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Grey of Wilton)

Married: John DARCY (5° B. Darcy of Knaith) BEF 1398

Children:

1. Phillip DARCY (6° B. Darcy of Knaith)

2. John DARCY (7° B. Darcy of Knaith)

3. Elizabeth DARCY (b. 1399 - d. AFT 18 Feb 1412)

4. Matilda (Maud) DARCY (b. 1401 - d. AFT 18 Feb 1412)

Married: Thomas SWINFORD (Sir Knight) (d. 2 Apr 1432) BEF 12 Jul 1421

Richard GREY (6º B. Grey of Wilton)

Born: BEF 1393, Wilton, Herefordshire, England

Died: 13 Aug 1442

Father: Henry GREY (5º B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOT (B. Grey of Wilton)

Married 1: Matilda SCROPE ABT 1419, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England

Married 2: Blanche VACHE ABT 1420

1. Alice GREY

2. Reginald GREY (7° B. Grey of Wilton)

Married 3: Margaret FERRERS (B. Grey of Wilton) 1427

Children:

3. Margaret GREY

Alice GREY

Died: 21 Feb 1491

Father: Richard GREY (6º B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Blanche VACHE

Married: William BURLEY of Bromcroft

1. Joan BURLEY

Margaret GREY

Died: 21 Feb 1491

Father: Richard GREY (6º B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Margaret FERRERS (B. Grey of Wilton)

Married: Richard WALWYN of Markhill

Children:

1. Thomas WALWYN of Longford (m. Agnes Milbourne)

Reginald GREY (7° B. Grey of Wilton)

Born: ABT 1420/1, Wilton, Herefordshire, England

Died: 22 Feb 1493/94, Bletcheley, Buckinghamshire, England

Buried: Bletcheley, Buckinghamshire, England

Father: Richard GREY (6º B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Blanche VACHE

Married 1: Tacinda TUDOR

Married 2: Thomasine BEAUFORT BEF 6 Oct 1447

Children:

1. John GREY (8° B. Grey of Wilton / 9° B. Grey)

John GREY (8° B. Grey of Wilton / 9° B. Grey)

Died: 3 Apr 1499, Hornby, England

Buried: White Friars', London, England / St. Margaret Chapel, Hornby, England

Father: Reginald GREY (7° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Thomasine BEAUFORT

Married 1: Anne GREY ABT 1468

Children:

1. Edmund GREY (9° B. Grey of Wilton)

3. Jane GREY

4. Catherine GREY

5. John GREY

6. Richard GREY

7. Peter GREY

8. Edward GREY

9. George GREY

10. Thomas GREY

Married 2: Elizabeth VAUGHAN (B. Grey of Wilton / B. Mounteagle) (w.1 of Thomas Greville of Cokesey - m.2 Edward Stanley, Lord Mounteagle)

Jane GREY

Father: John GREY (8° B. Grey of Wilton / 9° B. Grey)

Mother: Anne GREY

Catherine GREY

Father: John GREY (8° B. Grey of Wilton / 9° B. Grey)

Mother: Anne GREY

Edward GREY

Died: 5 May 1527

Father: John GREY (8° B. Grey of Wilton / 9° B. Grey)

Mother: Anne GREY

Edmund GREY (9° B. Grey of Wilton)

Born: ABT 1468/9, Wilton, Herefordshire, England

Died: 5 May 1511

Father: John GREY (8° B. Grey of Wilton / 9° B. Grey)

Mother: Anne GREY

Married: Florence HASTINGS (B. Grey of Wilton) BEF May 1492

Children:

1. Thomasine (Tacy) GREY

2. Elizabeth GREY (B. Chandos of Sudeley)

3. George GREY (10° B. Grey of Wilton)

5. Richard GREY (12° B. Grey of Wilton)

6. William GREY (13° B. Grey of Wilton)

7. Margaret GREY

Married 2: Elizabeth HERBERT

Margaret GREY

Father: Edmund GREY (9° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Florence HASTINGS (B. Grey of Wilton)

Children:

1. George GARDINER (b. ABT 1510, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England) (m. Margaret Neville)

George GREY (10º B. Grey of Wilton)

Died: BEF 1517

Father: Edmund GREY (9° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Florence HASTINGS (B. Grey of Wilton)

Thomas GREY (11° B. Grey of Wilton)

Died: 3 Oct 1517

Father: Edmund GREY (9° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Florence HASTINGS (B. Grey of Wilton)

Richard GREY (12º B. Grey of Wilton)

Died: 15 Oct 1521

Father: Edmund GREY (9° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Florence HASTINGS (B. Grey of Wilton)

Thomasine (Tacy) GREY

Born: BET 1490/95, Wilton, Herefordshire, England

Buried: 15 Nov 1558, Elmore, Gloucester, England

Notes: perhaps her mother was an earlier wife of Edmund Grey

Father: Edmund GREY (9° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Florence HASTINGS (B. Grey of Wilton)

Married: John BERKELEY of Stoke Gifford 1510

Children:

1. William Guise BERKELEY

Elizabeth GREY (B. Chandos of Sudeley)

Born: ABT 1492 /1500, Wilton On Wye, Herefordshire, England

Died: 29 Dec 1559

Buried: 3 Jan 1560, St Faith By, St Paul London, Middlesex, England

Father: Edmund GREY (9° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Florence HASTINGS (B. Grey of Wilton)

Married: John BRYDGES (1° B. Chandos of Sudeley) ABT 1512, Wilton On Wye, Herefordshire, England

Children:

1. Edmund BRYDGES (2° B. Chandos of Sudeley)

2. Charles BRYDGES

3. Elizabeth BRYDGES

5. Catherine BRYDGES (B. Sutton of Dudley)

7. Henry BRYDGES

8. Frances BRYDGES

9. Giles BRYDGES (b. 1524 - d. 1532)

10. Stephen BRYDGES

11. Richard BRYDGES

William GREY (13° B. Grey of Wilton)

Died: 15 Dec 1562, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: Edmund GREY (9° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Florence HASTINGS (B. Grey of Wilton)

Married: Mary SOMERSET (B. Grey of Wilton) ABT 1535

Children:

1. Arthur GREY (14° B. Grey of Wilton)

2. Honora GREY

3. William GREY

Honora GREY

Born: 1540, Wilton, Herefordshire, England

Buried: Waltham Abbey

Notes: one of Elizabeth Tudor’s attendants before she became Queen, and one of the six gentlewomen praised in a sonnet by John Harrington, who compares her to "Tysbe". Honora did not go on to serve Elizabeth after she became Queen.

Father: William GREY (13° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Mary SOMERSET (B. Grey of Wilton)

Married: Henry DENNY 1560, Herefordshire, England

1. Dorothy DENNY

2. Robert DENNY (b. ABT 1564 - d. 12 Aug 1576)

3. Catherine DENNY

4. Anne DENNY

5. Margaret DENNY

6. Edward DENNY (1º E. Norwich)

Arthur GREY (14° B. Grey of Wilton)

Born: 1536, Hammes, France

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: William GREY (13° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Mary SOMERSET (B. Grey of Wilton)

Married 1: Dorothy ZOUCHE 1560

Children:

1. Tacy GREY

2. Elizabeth GREY

Married 2: Jane Sybilla MORISON (B. Russell/B. Grey of Wilton) 1574

Children:

3. Thomas GREY (15º B. Grey of Wilton)

4. Bridget GREY

5. William GREY (b. 1579, Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, England - d. 1605)

Thomas GREY (15º B. Grey of Wilton)

Born: 1575

Died: 6 Jul 1614

Notes: who while serving in Ireland incurred the enmity of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton; and after fighting against Spain in the Netherlands he was a member of the court which sentenced these two noblemen to death in 1602. On the accession of James I he was arrested for his share in the "Bye plot", an attempt made by William Watson and others to seize the King. He was tried and sentenced to death, but the sentence was not carried out and he remained in prison until his death. He displayed both ability and courage at his trial, remarking after sentence had been passed, "the house of Wilton hath spent many lives in their prince's service and Grey cannot beg his". Like his father Grey was a strong Puritan. He left no children and his barony became extinct.

Father: Arthur GREY (14° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Jane Sybilla MORISON (B. Russell/B. Grey of Wilton)

Elizabeth GREY

Born: 1561, Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, England

Mother: Dorothy ZOUCHE

Married: Francis GOODWIN

1. Robert GOODWIN

Tacy GREY

Mother: Dorothy ZOUCHE

Married: John GUISE

Children:

1. Elizabeth GUISE

Bridget GREY

Born: 1577, Wilton Castle, Hertfordshire, England

Died: 28 Jul 1648, Farthingho, Northamptonshire, England

Father: Arthur GREY (14° B. Grey of Wilton)

Mother: Jane Sybilla MORISON (B. Russell/B. Grey of Wilton)

Married: Rowland EGERTON 10 Dec 1609, England

Children:

1. Phillip EGERTON

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