Sir John de Grey I of Rotherfield 
John was born in 1277 in Rotherfield Greys, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. John's father was Sir Robert de Grey and his mother was Joan de Valognes. His paternal grandparents were Sir Walter de Grey of Rotherfield and Isabel de Duston; his maternal grandfather was Thomas de Valognes. He had a brother named Thomas. He was the younger of the two children. He died at the age of 34 on October 17th, 1311 in Wilton, Wiltshire, England .General Notes
Sir John de Grey, of Rotherfield, d. 17 Oct 1311, MP 1297. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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SIR JOHN DE GREY, son and heir, was summoned 26 January 1296/7 to a Council, and was summoned for Military Service from 30 March 1298 to 27 September 1299 (k). He was an executor of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall; was present at the Siege of Carlaverock. He married Margaret, 4th and youngest daughter of William DE ODDINGESELES by Ela, daughter of Walter FitzRobert, of Woodham Walter, Essex, and sister and coh. of Edmund DE ODDINGESELES, of Solihull and Maxstokc, co. Warwick. He died 17 October 1311. His widow had assignment of dower 20 January 1311/2, and licence to marry whom she would 10 June 1312. She appears to have married, 2ndly, in or before 1319, Robert DE MOREBY, of Moreby, co. York. [Complete Peerage VI:145, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(k) Subsequent writs addressed during his lifetime to John de Grey refer to John de Grey of Wilton.
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John de Grey, then twenty-four years of age, who, soon after doing his homage, had livery of his inheritance, and in the 25th Edward I [1297], had summons to the parliament then held at Westminster, as a baron. This nobleman appears to have taken part in the Scottish wars of Edward I. His lordship m. Margaret, dau. and co-heiress of William de Odingsells, of Maxtock, co. Warwick, and dying 5th Edward II [1312], was s. by his son, John de Grey, 2nd baron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 247, Grey, Barons Grey, of Rotherfield, co. Oxford]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1110 in Rotherfield Greys, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1150 in Rotherfield Greys, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, England d. in Thurrock Grey, Essex, England
- b.1114 in Cornwall, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1180 in Rotherfield Greys, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1123 in England d.1211
- b.~ 1155 in Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1137 in England
- b.~ 1222 in Rotherfield Greys, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, England d.5 Jan 1266/1267 in Somerton, Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1098 in Northamptonshire, England d.Aug 1153 in Huntington, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.~ 1147 in Huntingdonshire, England d.> 1185 in Sculcotes, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1121 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.>May 1188
- b.~ 1185 in Sculcotes, Yorkshire, England
- b.5 Jan 1245/1246 in Rotherfield Greys Castle, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, England d.<27 May 1295
- b.~ 1140 in Duston, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1169 in Duston, Northamptonshire, England d.1234
- b.~ 1145 in Weekley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1198 in Duston, Northamptonshire, England d.< 1271
- b.1151 in Ellenhall, Staffordshire, England d.> 1187
- b.~ 1179 in Raunton Near Ellenhall, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1156 in Shropshire, England d.Feb 1221
- b.~ 1224 in Duston, Northamptonshire, England d.< 1305
- b.~ 1120 in Negreville, Normandy, France d.<Sep 1176 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1147 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1200 in Liddell, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1125 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.1168
- b.~ 1200 in Liddell, Cumberland, England
- b.1277 in Rotherfield Greys, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, England d.17 Oct 1311 in Wilton, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1164 in Hickley, Suffolk, England d.1210
- b.1194 in Hickley, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1217 in Orford, Suffolk, England
- b.1163 in North Creke, Norfolk, England d.< 1233 in Combes, Suffolk, England
- b.1202 in North Creke, Norfolk, England
- b.1174 in Eye, Suffolk, England
- b. in Shabbington, Buckinghamshire, England d.~ 1275
- b.~ 1120 in Ixworth, Suffolk, England d.~ 1188
- b.~ 1153 in Ixlworth, Staffordshire, England d.1264
- b.< 1130 in Ixworth, Suffolk, England d.> 1198
- b.1200/1217 in Ixlworth, Staffordshire, England
- b.1110 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.26 Dec 1194
- b.~ 1163 in Ixlworth, Staffordshire, England
- b.ABT 1125/1140 in Rayleigh, Essex, England d.> 1194
- b.~ 1257 in Shabbington, Buckinghamshire, England d.1312
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They had a son named John.
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Children
Baron John de Grey of Rotherfeld
John was born on October 9th, 1300 in Rotherfield Greys Castle, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. He died at the age of 58 on September 1st, 1359 in Rotherfield Greys Castle, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.
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