Richard Grey (abt. 1459 - 1483)

Born about 1459 in Groby, Leicestershire, , England

Ancestors

Died 13 Jun 1483 at about age 24 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, , England

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Biography

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Sir Richard Grey (living 1482).^[1][2]

Property

Ardington manor In co. Berks.^[2]

"When Richard II resumed Alice Perrers's estates (fn. 27) he granted Ardington to his half-brother John Earl of Huntingdon, first for life (fn. 28) and later in fee to the earl and his heirs by his wife Elizabeth. (fn. 29) After the death and forfeiture of the earl (fn. 30) Elizabeth and her second husband John Cornwall held the manor. (fn. 31) It was subsequently inherited by her son John Earl of Huntingdon, afterwards Duke of Exeter. (fn. 32) In 1430 he settled it on himself and Anne his wife and their heirs, with remainder to the heirs of his father and mother. (fn. 33) His son Henry succeeded in 1447, (fn. 34) and after Henry's death in 1461 the manor was granted to the Archbishop of Canterbury and other feoffees to hold to the use of his widow Anne [of York], Duchess of Exeter for her life. (fn. 35) She granted it in 1466 to feoffees, (fn. 36) who conveyed it ten years later to Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset,^[3] (1455 - 1501), (fn. 37) in marriage settlement with her daughter Anne. In 1482 he surrendered the grant, (fn. 38) in order that a new one might be made to Sir Richard Grey, his brother. (fn. 39) On the death of the latter the manor was taken by Act of Parliament into the hands of the Crown, (fn. 40) and in 1484 it was granted to Thomas, Earl of Derby and his son George, Lord Strange. (fn. 41).

The Earls of Derby continued to hold Ardington for six generations, (fn. 42) ending with William Earl of Derby, who was lord of the manor in 1599. (fn. 43) About forty years before that date, however, it had been leased by his father to John Clarke, (fn. 44) who took up his residence here. (fn. 45) His grandson Edward Clarke (fn. 46) purchased the fee of the manor from Sir Thomas Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, in 1606, (fn. 47) and ten years later received a grant from the king of the reversion, to which the Crown was entitled in case of the failure of issue to the Earls of Derby. (fn. 48)

Edward Clarke died in 1630, leaving a son and heir John, (fn. 49) whose eldest son John died without issue in 1702, his heir being his brother Richard. (fn. 50)"^[2]

Notes

• Richard /de GREY/ Birth: ABT 1459 Of, Groby Death: 13 JUN 1483^[4]

MERGES

• Lockwood Family Tree.ged on 30 April 2011.
• De GREY-184 Jun 20, 2011

Source

1. ↑ Richardson, D. (2013). Royal Ancestry, III, p. 160.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} 'Parishes: Ardington', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4, ed. William Page and P H Ditchfield (London, 1924), pp. 269-272. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol4/pp269-272 [accessed 14 October 2020].
3. ↑ Wikipedia: Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset
4. ↑ hofundssonAnces.ged

• "Edward IV: October 1472, Third Roll," in Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, ed. Chris Given-Wilson, Paul Brand, Seymour Phillips, Mark Ormrod, Geoffrey Martin, Anne Curry and Rosemary Horrox (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), British History Online, accessed March 8, 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/parliament-rolls-medieval/october-1472-third-roll.