John Greville MP (1380 - 1444)

Born 1380 in Drayton, Oxfordshire, England

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Died 30 Sep 1444 at about age 64 in Gloucestershire, England

Biography

He was one of the six sons of William Greville (d.1401), of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, "the flower of the wool-merchants of all England", the leading purchaser of wool from the Cotswold Hills at that time.

He married twice:

• Firstly to Sibyl Corbet (c.1387-27 Aug. 1425), daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Corbet of Hadley in Shropshire
• Secondly to Joyce Cokesay (c.1405-19 July 1473), a daughter of Walter Cokesay of Great Cooksey in Worcestershire, and the sister and eventual heiress of Sir Hugh Cokesay.

His first wife, Sibyl Corbet, had died childless in 1425, but before her death settlements had been made ensuring that he might retain the bulk of her estates for the rest of his life.

Upon his death on 30 Sep 1444, jhis heir was his son John, aged 17, who, following the demise of his grandfather’s widow in 1449, was also to inherit other family properties, including Milcote, in Warwickshire.

He was buried in All Saints' Church, Weston-on-Avon and was succeeded by his son John Greville.

Sources

• http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1386-1421/member/greville-john-1444
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greville_(died_1444)
• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=15024057&pid=4318