Reynold de Grey

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Reynold de Grey, 1st Lord (Baron) Grey (of Wilton), so created by writ of summons to Parliament 24 June 1295 (although the assembly in question is not now recognised as a bona fide Parliament; he had, however, attended the assembly called a full Parliament of 29 May 1290); held the Manors of Brogborough, Thurleigh and Wrest, Beds; Great Brickhill, Snellson and Water Eaton or Waterhall, Bucks; Hemingford, Toseland and Yelling, Hunts; Kempleigh, Glos; Purleigh, Essex; Rushton, Cheshire; Ruthin, Denbighs; Shirland and Wilton, Herefs; Sheriff of Notts and Derbys and Constable of Nottingham Castle March 1265/6; Constable of Northampton Castle June 1267-Jan 1267/8; Justice of Chester, Constable of Chester Castle and Sheriff of Cheshire 1270-74; Justice of Chester 1281; granted 1282 Ruthin Castle; present at English victory over Scots at Falkirk 1298. [Burke's Peerage]

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BARONY OF GREY OF WILTON (I)

SIR REYNOLD DE GREY, of Ruthin, co. Denbigh, Wilton, co. Hereford, Shirland, co. Derby, Rushton, co. Chester, Purleigh, Essex, Toseland, Hemingford, and YeIling, Hunts, Water Eaton or Waterhall, Snellson, and Great Brickhill, Bucks, Thurleigh, Wrest, and Brogborough, Beds, and Kempley, co. Gloucester, son and heir of Sir John DE GREY, of Shirland (who died shortly before 18 March 1265/6) by his 2nd wife, Emma, apparently widow of John De SEGRAVE, who died s.p. 1230, and daughter of Roger DE CAUZ, by Nichole, daughter and heir of Bartholomew DE LEIGH. In 1257 he had a grant to him and his heirs of a weekly market at his manor of Wilton. He was appointed Sheriff of cos. Notts and Derby, and Constable of Nottingham Castle, 18 Mar. 1265/6, in succession to his father, then recently dead. On 28 March 1266 he had livery of his father's lands, by special grace, his homage being respited. On 28 December 1266 he was ordered to deliver Nottingham Castle to Roger de Leyburne . He was Constable of Northampton Castle from 25 June 1267 to 30 January 1267/8, and justice of Chester, Constable of Chester Castle, and Sheriff of co. Chester, from 1270 to 16 October 1274. He was summoned for Military Service from 12 December 1274 to 8 July 1306, to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 June 1283, to attend the King at Salisbury, 26 January 1296/7, and to Parliament from 24 June 1295 to 26 August 1307, by writs directed Reginaldo de Grey, and, moreover, is recorded to have been present in pleno parliamento domini Regis on the morrow of Trinity 29 May 1290, with other magnates et proceres tunc in parliamento existentes, whereby he is held to have become LORD GREY. As Reginaldus de Grey dominus de Ruthyn he took pirt in the Barons' Letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/1. In Jan. 1276/7 be was about to go to Wales on the King's service, and he was with the King in Wales in 1277 and 1282. On 14 November 1281 he was appointed justice of Chester and Keeper of co. Chester, of all the demesne lands of the King in that county, of the castles of Chester and Flint, and the cantreds of Englefield and Ros, &c., for 8 years from Michaelmas 1281, at a rent of 1,000 marks a year: he was reappointed 30 June 1290, for 9 years from Michaelmas following, at a rent of 727 marks 8s. On 15 June 1282 the King granted him seizin of the lands of Bromfield and Yale [co. Denbigh], during pleasure, and on 23 October following the castle of Ruthin, the cantred of Dyffryn Clwyd, and the lands that had belonged to Gwenllian de Lascy in the cantreds of Dyffryn Clwyd and Englefield, to hold in fee, by the service of three knights' fees. On 16 October 1294 he was about. to go to Wales. He was at the battle of Falkirk, 22 July 1298. On 26 May 1301 he did homage and fealty for the castle of Ruthin to Edward, Prince of Wales, at Kenilworth.

He married Maud, daughter and heir of Sir Henry DE LONGCIIAMP, of Wilton, co. Hereford. She died before 21 November 1302. He died 5 April 1308. [Complete Peerage VI:171-3

Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999

Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
Page: 1226

Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Page: VI:171-3

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Richard de Grey ^*
  - b.~  1110 in Rotherfield, Oxfordshire, England
  
  Anchitel de Grey
  - b.~  1135 in Rotherfield, Oxfordshire, England
  
  Mabilia
  - b.~  1114 in Cornwell, Oxfordshire, England
  
  John de Grey
  - b.~  1150 in Thurrock Grey, Essex, England d.>  1198 in Standlake, Witney, Oxfordshire, England
  
  Earl of Devonshire Baldwin Redviers ^*
  - b.~  1102 in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England d.04 Jun 1155 in Quarr, Isle of Wight
  
  Eva Redvers
  - b.~  1139 in Hocknorton, England
  
  Lucia of Balun ^*
  - b.1117 in Hocknorton, England d.>  1155
  
  Henry de Grey
  - b.1176 in Turrock, England d.1219
  
  Lord Richard Fitzgilbert de Clare ^*
  - b.1085 in Hertford, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Abergavenney, Monmouth, Wales
  
  2nd Earl of Hertford Roger (The Good) de Clare
  - b.1116 d.1173
  
  Adeliza de Meschines ^*
  - b.~  1098 in Hertford, England d.>  1142
  
  Eleanor de Clare
  - b.~  1154 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England
  
  James de St. Hilaire ^*
  - b.1110 d.1154
  
  Maud de St. Hilaire
  - b.~  1135 in Burkenham, Field Dalling, Norfolk d.24 Dec 1195 in Norfolk, England
  
  Aveline
  - b.1109
  
  Sir John de Grey
  - b.~  1205 in Shirland, England d.<18 Mar 1264
  
  Akaris FitzBardolf ^*
  - b.~  1080 in Ravensworth, Richmond, North Riding, Yorkshire, England d.1161
  
  Hugo Bardolf
  - b.~  1122 in Ravensworth, Richmond, North Riding Yorkshire, England d.>  1174 in Great Carlton, Louth, Lincolnshire, England
  
  Hugh Bardolf
  - b.~  1140 in Great Carlton, Lincolnshire, England
  
  Isolda de Bardolf
  - b.1182 in Turrock, England d.<18 Jun 1246
  
  Osbert de Condet ^*
  - b.~  1082 in Wickhambreux, Kent, England d.<  1130 in South Carlton, Eagle & Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
  
  Robert de Condet
  - b.~  1108 in Thorngate Castle, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.~  1141
  
  Adelaide de Chesney ^*
  - b.~  1088 in Glentham & Caenby, Lincolnshire, England
  
  Isabel de Condet
  - b.~  1140 in Thorngate Castle, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
  
  Earl of Chester Ranulph (de Briquessart) de Meschines III ^*
  - b.~  1070 in Briquessart, Livry, France d.Jan 1128 in Chester, England
  
  Adeliza de Meschines
  - b.~  1098 in Hertford, England d.>  1142
  
  Countess of Chester Lucia Taillebois ^*
  - b.~  1074 in Kendal Castle, Westmoreland, Cumbria, England d.1136
  
  Reynold de Grey
  - b.1235 in Wilton, England d.05 Apr 1308
  
  Roger de Cauz
  - b.1144 in Shalbourne, England
  
  Roger de Cauz
  - b.1178 in Shalbourne, England
  
  Emma de Cauz
  - b.~  1212 in Shalbourne, England
  
  Hamon de Legh ^*
  - b.1112 in West Hall, High Legh, Cheshire, England
  
  Hugh de Leigh
  - b.~  1126 in Thurleigh, England
  
  Bartholomew de Leigh
  - b.~  1156 in Thurleigh, England d.1217 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England
  
  William de Glanville ^*
  - b.~  1090 in Bromholm, England d.>  1135
  
  Beatrice de Glanville
  - b.~  1130 in Bedfordshire, England
  
  Beatrix de Sauqueville ^*
  - b.~  1095 in Bures-ad-Montem, Sudbury, Essex, England
  
  Nichole de Leigh
  - b.~  1185 in Shalbourne, England
  
  Emma Rufus
  - b.1161 in Armston, England
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

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