Edward Grey, 6th Lord Ferrers of Groby

Sir Edward Grey

Baron Ferrers of Groby[1,2,3]

1415 - 1457

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Birth Abt 1415

Sex Male

Lived In England

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Died 18 Dec 1457

Person ID I00060811 Leo

Last Modified 30 Jun 2003

Father Reginald Grey, 3rd Lord Grey de Ruthyn, b. 1362

Mother Joan Astley

Family ID F00044087 Group Sheet

Family Elizabeth Ferrers, Heiress of Groby, b. Abt 1419

Children

1. Sir John Grey, of Groby, b. 1435
2. Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle

	3. Reginald Grey

4. Anne Grey

	5. Margaret Grey

Sources 1. [S00058] The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, Reference: V 358

2. [S00010] A Genealogical History of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited and extinct peerages of the British Empire, London, 1866, Burke, Sir Bernard, Reference: 249

3. [S00120] Cahiers de Saint Louis , Dupont, Jacques and Saillot, Jacques, Reference: 410, 972

Sir Edward GREY Lord Ferrers of Groby [Parents] was born 1415 in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales. He died 18 Dec 1457 in Groby, Leicestershire, England. Edward married Elizabeth FERRERS Lady Ferrers of Groby on 1430 in Groby, Leicestershire, England.

Elizabeth FERRERS Lady Ferrers of Groby [Parents] was born 1417 in Groby, Leicestershire, England. She died 23 Jan 1483 in Groby, Leicestershire, England. Elizabeth married Sir Edward GREY Lord Ferrers of Groby on 1430 in Groby, Leicestershire, England.

Other marriages:

BOURCHIER, John Knight

They had the following children:

		M	i	 Sir John GREY Knight was born 1432 and died 17 Feb 1461.

M ii Sir Edward GREY Viscount Lisle was born 1434 and died 17 Jul 1492.
F iii Mary GREY 1, 2 was born 1436 in Groby, Leicestershire, England.
M iv Reginald GREY 1, 2 was born 1438 in Groby, Leicestershire, England.
M v Henry GREY Esquire 1, 2 was born 1440 in Groby, Leicestershire, England.
M vi Thomas GREY 1 was born 1442 in Groby, Leicestershire, England.
F vii Margaret GREY was born 1445.
Sir Edward GREY Lord Ferrers of Groby

1Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. [2nd Edition]), p. 159, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974 F228 1999.

2Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910.), 1:284, 6:199, 8:59, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.721 C682.

3Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004.), pp. 358, 364, 621, Family History Library, 942 D5rd.

4Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005.), p. 390.

5Metcalfe, Walter Charles, The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634 (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1879.), p. 542, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 942.005 H284 v.14.

6Cokayne, G., CP, 5:358-9.

Grey was the son and heir of Elizabeth Ferrers, Lady Ferrers of Groby (1419-1483) and of Sir Edward Grey (c. 1415–1457).[1] His father was summoned to parliament as 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby in right of his wife.[2]

In about 1452, Sir John Grey married Elizabeth Woodville, the eldest daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, widow of John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford. They had two sons, Thomas, later Marquess of Dorset, and Richard.[1] Elizabeth later became the co-heiress of her brother, Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers.[2]

Sir John Grey was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461, fighting for the Lancastrian cause. Ironically, his widow, Elizabeth, later married Edward IV who was the Yorkist claimant to the throne.[1]

Before his death, Grey began the construction of Bradgate House. The ruins of the house are still visible at the centre of the park there.

[edit] References

1.^ a b c Sir John Grey (c.1432-1461), knight in Grey, Sir Richard (d. 1483), nobleman by Rosemary Horrox in Dictionary of National Biography online (accessed 26 November 2007)

2.^ a b Douglas Richardson & Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, p. 359

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He was a successful man and very conciderate.

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