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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
"Children of Roger de Somery, Knt., by Agnes ___...
ii. JOHN DE SOMERY, Knt., of Dudley (in Sedgley), Mere, Rowley Regis, and Swinford, Staffordshire, Ellesborough and Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, Churchill, Worcestershire, etc., son and heir, born at Weoley (in Northfield), Worcestershire 2 March 1280 (aged 26 or 27 in 1306). He married LUCY DE GREY, daughter of Henry de Grey, Knt., 1st Lord Grey of Codnor, by his 1st wife, Eleanor [see CODNOR 10 for her ancestry]. He was summoned to Carlisle in 1306. He was summoned to Parliament 10 March 1307/8 by writ directed Joh[ann]i de Som[er]y, whereby he is held to have become Lord Somery. He was summoned to treat with the king in 1309. He was summoned to serve against the Scots in 1310, 1314-19, and 1322. In 1311 a complaint was lodged that he had obtained such mastery in Staffordshire that none could obtain law or justice there. In 1313 he was rewarded for good service in Scotland. In 1313-14 he obtained license to grant half the manor of Walsall, Staffordshire to Ralph Basset, of Drayton, Staffordshire, he retaining Dudley castle and its members. In 1314 he was to be paid his expenses for going to France with the king in the previous year, and for expenses for the current year. In 1316 he was one of the chief men of the Welsh Marches. In 1318 he was about to go to Wales. In 1321 he was granted the keeping of the manor and forest of Kinver for life for his good service. In Nov. 1321 he was ordered to attack rebels in cos. Warwick, Leicester, and Stafford. SIR JOHN DE SOMERY, Lord Somery, died 1 August (or more probably 1 July) 1322. In 1324 his widow, Lucy, petitioned the king and council requesting remedy as the keeper of lands in Berkshire detained rent which was due to her from tenements in Basildon, Berkshire that were in the king's hand by the forfeiture of John de la Beebe. She was living in 1325, but was dead before 1342. Leach Hist. of Bradfield College (1900): 15-22. Feudal Aids 5 (1908): 15, 17. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 331-338. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 43-45. C.P. 12(1) (1953): 114-115 (sub Somery). Ellis Cat. of Seals in the PRO. 1(1978): 60 (seal of John de Somery dated 1311-Between two wyverns, a shield of arms: two lions passant.); 2 (1981): 98 (seal of John de Somery dated 1314--A shield of arms: two lions passant; on either side a wyvern; helm above with fan crest.). Coss Heraldg, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England (2002): 61-63 (arms of Sir John de Somery: or, two lions passant azure). Ramparts 13(2) (2002): 5-13; 4(2) (2003): 5-9. National Archives, C 143/97/2 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp)."
2. “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].”
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