Ancestral Trails 2016 » HENRY GREY (1155-1219)

Personal data HENRY GREY 

• He was born in the year 1155 in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire.
• Title: 1st Baron Grey of Codnor
• (Known as) : Henry de Grey of Grays Thurrock.
• He died in the year 1219 in Grays, Thurrock, Essex, he was 64 years old.
• A child of JOHN I GREY and HAWIS

Household of HENRY GREY

He is married to ISOLDE BARDOLF.

They got married in the year 1199 at Thurrock, Essex, he was 44 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Richard GREY  1200-1271 
2. William GREY  1205-1287 
3. Hugh GREY  1203-± 1230 
4. JOHN GREY  1202-???? 

Notes about HENRY GREY

Henry de Grey, the youngest brother, had a grant from King Richard I in the sixth year of his reign, of the manor of Turroc in Essex, which was confirmed by King John in the first year of his reign. And the same year by another charter, had a special privilege to hunt the hare and fox in any lands belonging to the Crown, excepting the King's demesne parks. In I H II he had a grant of the manor of Grimston in com. Nott (part of the possessions of Robert Bardolf) for his support in the King's service. And having married ISOLDA, the eldest of the five daughters and co-heirs of Hugh Bardolf, and niece and coheir to the aforesaid Robert, shared in the inheritance of all his land in 9H.III.

By the said ISOLDA he had issue,
1. RICHARD who had the family estate at Hemingford-Grey in com' Hunt. and also Thorock-Grey, and was Sheriff of Northumberland in 20 H.III. His principal seat was at Codnovre in com' Derb. whose descendants were the Barons Grey of Codnovre, which terminated in Henry Lord Grey, who died in 11 H.VII
2. JOHN, Progenitor to the Lords Grey of Wilton, and of Ruthen, from whom his Grace the late Duke of Kent descended.
3. WILLIAM of Sandiacre, in the county of Derby who in 14 H.III was witness to the deed whereby the King confirmed to Ankerwike priory in com' Bucks, their possessions, and was Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 46 to the 51 H.III. And in 53H.III has free warren in Landford, in com' Nott. His son RICHARD DE GREY married LUCY daughter and heir of Robert de Hareston in Leicestershire, and Hiclington in com' Nott. All which Lordships descended to the family of Leek by an heir female ALICE DE GREY, living in the reign of King Henry IV and married to John Leek, ancestor to the late Earl of Scarfdale.
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Sir Henry de Grey of Grays Thurrock, Essex (1155-1219) was a favourite courtier of King John of England.

Sir Henry was the son of John de Grey (born Thurrock, Essex, c. 1140 and married c. 1157) and probably a great-grandson of Anchetil de Greye (b. circa 1100) of Rotherfield Greys, a grandson of Domesday baron Anchetil de Greye (c. 1052 - 1086+). Sir Henry was the progenitor of the considerable number of noble houses bearing the name Grey or Gray; Sir Henry's descendants in the direct male line went on to be ennobled with no less than eighteen peerages, including eleven substantive baronies, a viscountcy, four earldoms (Kent, Tankerville, Stamford and Grey), a marquessate and two dukedoms. Sir Henry's descendants through the female line are countless but include the Barons Audley, Barons Revelstoke, Barons Northbrook, Barons Howick, Barons Dacre, Barons Willoughby de Eresby, Earl of Lindsey, the Earls of Malmesbury, Earls of Westmoreland, Earls of Essex, Earls of Durham, Earls of Cromer, Earls of Elgin, Earls of Bridgewater, the Earls of Ashburnham, the Marquesses of Lindsey and the Dukes of Somerset and Ancaster, amongst many others.

In 1195 he had been granted the Manor of Thurrock in Essex which later became known as Grays Thurrock (or simply Grays), which he bought from Isaac the Jew and his son Josce. To commemorate this connection, on 11 June 2013 (the 808th anniversary of the charter), a green Thurrock heritage plaque was unveiled to de Grey. Before 1201 he was also granted the Manor of Codnor, Derbyshire, and in 1216 was also granted by King Henry III of England the Manor of Grimston in Nottinghamshire.

Marriage and issue
Around 1199 he married at Thurrock, Essex Isolda Bardolf (Hoo, Kent, c. 1168 - bef. 18 June 1246), also known as Iseaude, sister and co-heiress of Robert Bardolf of Codnor in Derbyshire, and daughter of Hugh Bardolf of Codnor, Derbyshire (son of Hugo Bardol, born in 1125), and Isobel Aquillion, by whom he had these sons:

Sir Richard de Grey of Codnor Derbyshire, ancestor of the Barons Grey of Codnor
Sir John de Grey of Shirland Derbyshire, ancestor of the Barons Grey of Wilton and Barons Grey of Ruthyn, and through the Ruthyn Greys he was ancestor of John Grey of Groby, the first husband of Elizabeth Woodville, who later married Edward IV. In this connection, Sir John was the ancestor of the Viscounts Lisle, the Grey Marquesses of Dorset and of Lady Jane Grey. It is from Sir John's descendants the Greys of Wilton that Gray's Inn takes its name.
William de Grey of Cavendish, Suffolk, of Landford, Nottinghamshire and of Sandiacre, Derbyshire, ancestor of the Greys of Merton, Norfolk and a remote ancestor of the Barons Walsingham
Robert de Grey, ancestor of the Barons Grey of Rotherfield
Henry de Grey
Hugh de Grey (born Chillingham, Northumberland, c. 1203), father of John de Grey, born in Scotland, and grandfather of Thomas de Grey of Heton (Heton, Northumberland, circa 1266 - Angus, Scotland, 1310), whose son Sir Thomas Grey (chronicler) of Heaton (circa 1297 - bef. 12 March 1343/1344) was taken prisoner by the Scots at Bannockburn and who was the ancestor of all three creations of the Earls of Tankerville, and the Earls Grey
unknown de Grey, father of Eve de Grey who married Walter Beke of Eresby Lincolnshire and was ancestor of the Barons Willoughby de Eresby
Walter de Grey, Archbishop of York 1216-1255

After his death his widow remarried Reynold de Meurdre.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Grey

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