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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HENRY DE GREY, Knt., of Codnor, Derbyshire, Grays Thurrocks, Essex, Tunworth and Upton Grey, Hampshire, Aylesford and Hoo, Kent, Evington, Leicestershire, Sherringham, Norfolk, Eastwood and Toton, Nottinghamshire, etc., son and heir, born about 1255/8 (aged 14, 15, or 17 in 1272). He married (1st) ELEANOR ___. They had four sons, Richard, Knt. [2nd Lord Grey of Codnor], Nicholas, Thomas and Henry, and two daughters, Lucy and Joan (nun). He fought in Wales in 1282. In 1294 he was going to Gascony in the retinue of Edmund, the king's brother. He was again on service in Gascony in 1295 and 1297. He presented to the church of Heanor, Derbyshire in 1298 and 1304. He was constantly employed in the Scottish wars of King Edward I. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 Feb. 1298/9 to 16 August 1308, by writs directed Henrico de Grey, whereby he is held to have become Lord Grey. He was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock in 1300. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 as Dominus de Codnore. In 1306, in consideration of his services in Scotland and elsewhere, he had a pardon for all debts due from him or his ancestors to the Exchequer. He married (2nd) shortly before 6 June 1301 JOAN DE SOMERVILLE, widow of Ralph de Cromwell, Knt., of Cromwell and Lambley, Nottinghamshire (died before 2 March 1298/9) [see CROMWELL 5], and daughter of Robert de Somerville, Knt., of Wichnor (in Tatenhill), Staffordshire, by Isabel, daughter and co-heiress of
Roger de Merlay, Knt. [see SOMERVILLE 8 for her ancestry]. In 1305 he conveyed the manor of Barton le Street, Yorkshire to his son, Nicholas de Grey. SIR HENRY DE GREY, 1st Lord Grey of Codnor, died shortly before 18 Sept. 1308. He left a will dated 9 Sept. 1308, proved 16 and 19 Sept. and 15 and 22 October 1309, requesting burial in the Carmelite Friars at Aylesford, Kent.
Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 227-230 (sub Grey of Codnor). Cox Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire 4 (1879): 233-234. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 7) (1886): 47-48, 97, 108, 113. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 3 (1894): 36-37 (seal of Henry de Grey, lord of Codnor dated 1301 — A shield of arms: barry of six, GREY. Suspended by a strap from a tree of three branches, with two smaller branches at the side. Legend: * DE LEIAVTE SE....VNTE(?). Beaded borders.). Cal IPM 1 (1904): 276-277; 5 (1908): 50-51. Brown Yorkshire Inquisitions 4 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 37): (1906): 116. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 383; 4 (1911): 174-175. Register of John le Romeyn Lord Archbishop of York 1 (Surtees Soc. 123) (1913): 320. C.P. 6 (1926): 123-124 ("said to have m., 1stly, Eleanor, da. of Sir Hugh de Courtenay"). Paget (1957) 259: 3-4 (sub Grey of Codnor) (no identification of parents of wife). List of Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery & the Exchequer (PRO, Lists and Indexes 15): 393 (letter re. marriage of daughter Lucy to John de Somery). Index to Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery & the Exchequer 1 (PRO, Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser., No. 15): 509.
Children of Henry de Grey, Knt., by Eleanor
i. RICHARD DE GREY, Knt., 2nd Lord Grey of Codnor [see next].
ii. LUCY DE GREY, married JOHN DE SOMERY, Knt., Lord Somery [see SOMERY 4.ii].”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“LUCY DE MOHUN, married JOHN DE GREY, Knt., of Codnor, Beeley, Hazelbache, Heanor, Normanton, and Shirland, Derbyshire, Thurrock, Essex, Hoo and Aylesford, Kent, Evington, Leicestershire, Sherringham, Norfolk, etc., son and heir of Richard de Grey, Knt., of Codnor, Derbyshire, Thurrock, Essex, Aylesford and Hoo, Kent, Governor of the Channel Isles, Seneschal of Gascony and Poitou, Constable of Devises, Dover, and Kenilworth Castles, Warden of Cinque Ports, by Lucy, daughter and heiress of John du Hommet (or de Humez), of Humberstone, Leicestershire, Sherringham, Norfolk, and Newbottle Northamptonshire. Her maritagium included the manor of Tunworth, Hampshire. They had one son, Henry, Knt. [1st Lord Grey of Codnor] and two daughters, Joan and Lucy (wife of Brian le Waleys). He was knighted in 1244, and joined with his father against King Henry III. He is said to have brought Carmelites (White Friars) from the Holy Land about 1240 and settled them at Aylesford, Kent. He acquired the manor of Grey, Wiltshire from William de Arundel. SIR JOHN DE GREY died shordy before 5 Jan. 1271/2. In 1272-3 John de Evington arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against his widow, Lucy, touching common of pasture in Evington, Leicestershire. Lucy married (2nd) before 4 July 1281 (date of pardon for marrying without a license) ARNOLD MURDAC, Knt. In 1284 he acknowledged that he owed Philip de Montgomery 4 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in Leicestershire. In 1285, as Arnold Murdak, Knt., of Northamptonshire, he owed a debt of ₤17 to Baroncinus Galteri, and others their partners and merchants of Lucca. On 19 May 1290 he and his wife, Lucy, were acquitted of 100l. of the 200l. by which they made fine with the king for their trespass in marrying without the king's license. SIR ARNOLD MURDAC was living in June 1290.
Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 227-230 (sub Grey of Codnor). Vivian Vis. of Cornwall (H.S.P. 9) (1874): 143-146 (Mohun ped.: "Lucia [de Mohun] uxor Johis Grey de Codner."). Cox Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire 4 (1879): 233-234. Arch. Jour. 37 (1880): 57-93. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 551; 49 (1888): 161. C.C.R. 1279-1288 (1902): 100, 346. C.C.R. 1288-1296 (1904): 29, 34, 80, 134. Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 276-277. Reg. of William Wickwane, Lord Archbishop of York 1279-1285 (Suttees Soc. 114) (1907): 75. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 383 (Grey arms: Barry argent and azure, with three roundels gules in the chief); 4 (1911): 174-175. Maxwell-Lyte: Hist. of Dunster 1 (1909): 18-34. C.P. 6 (1926): 123, 126 footnote n, 135. C.F.R. 11 (1929): 151. Paget (1957) 259: 3 (sub Grey of Codnor). TG 8 (1988): 3-38. National Archives, C 241/6/198; C 241/8/418; C 241/14/19 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).”
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