General Notes

Reynold de Grey, 1st Lord (Baron) Grey (of Wilton), so created by writ ofsummons to Parliament 24 June 1295 (although the assembly in question isnot now recognised as a bona fide Parliament; he had, however, attendedthe assembly called a full Parliament of 29 May 1290); held the Manors ofBrogborough, Thurleigh and Wrest, Beds; Great Brickhill, Snellson andWater 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 ofNottingham Castle March 1265/6; Constable of Northampton Castle June1267-Jan 1267/8; Justice of Chester, Constable of Chester Castle andSheriff of Cheshire 1270-74; Justice of Chester 1281; granted 1282 RuthinCastle; present at English victory over Scots at Falkirk 1298. [Burke'sPeerage]

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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, andGreat Brickhill, Bucks, Thurleigh, Wrest, and Brogborough, Beds, andKempley, 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 ofRoger DE CAUZ, by Nichole, daughter and heir of Bartholomew DE LEIGH. In1257 he had a grant to him and his heirs of a weekly market at his manorof Wilton. He was appointed Sheriff of cos. Notts and Derby, andConstable of Nottingham Castle, 18 Mar. 1265/6, in succession to hisfather, then recently dead. On 28 March 1266 he had livery of hisfather's lands, by special grace, his homage being respited. On 28December 1266 he was ordered to deliver Nottingham Castle to Roger deLeyburne . He was Constable of Northampton Castle from 25 June 1267 to 30January 1267/8, and justice of Chester, Constable of Chester Castle, andSheriff of co. Chester, from 1270 to 16 October 1274. He was summoned forMilitary Service from 12 December 1274 to 8 July 1306, to attend the Kingat Shrewsbury, 28 June 1283, to attend the King at Salisbury, 26 January1296/7, and to Parliament from 24 June 1295 to 26 August 1307, by writsdirected Reginaldo de Grey, and, moreover, is recorded to have beenpresent in pleno parliamento domini Regis on the morrow of Trinity 29 May1290, with other magnates et proceres tunc in parliamento existentes,whereby he is held to have become LORD GREY. As Reginaldus de Greydominus de Ruthyn he took pirt in the Barons' Letter to the Pope, 12February 1300/1. In Jan. 1276/7 be was about to go to Wales on the King'sservice, and he was with the King in Wales in 1277 and 1282. On 14November 1281 he was appointed justice of Chester and Keeper of co.Chester, of all the demesne lands of the King in that county, of thecastles 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 ofthe lands of Bromfield and Yale [co. Denbigh], during pleasure, and on 23October following the castle of Ruthin, the cantred of Dyffryn Clwyd, andthe lands that had belonged to Gwenllian de Lascy in the cantreds ofDyffryn Clwyd and Englefield, to hold in fee, by the service of threeknights' fees. On 16 October 1294 he was about. to go to Wales. He was atthe battle of Falkirk, 22 July 1298. On 26 May 1301 he did homage andfealty for the castle of Ruthin to Edward, Prince of Wales, at Kenilworth.

He married Maud, daughter and heir of Sir Henry DE LONGCHAMP, of Wilton,co. Hereford. She died before 21 November 1302. He died 5 April 1308.[Complete Peerage VI:171-3, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]