Biography of Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset 1455-1501
Paternal Family Tree: Grey
Maternal Family Tree: Jeanne Sabran
1461 Second Battle of St Albans
1464 Marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville
1476 Reburial of Richard and Edmund of York
1483 Dinner and Arrest of the Woodville Affinity
1483 Elizabeth Woodville takes Sanctuary at Westminster Abbey
Around 1454 [his father] John Grey (age 22) and [his mother] Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 17) were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers (age 49) and [his grandmother] Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford (age 39). He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward I of England.
In 1455 Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset was born to John Grey (age 23) and Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 18).
On 17 Feb 1461 the Lancastrian army defeated the Yorkist army at Second Battle of St Albans and rescued King Henry VI of England and II of France (age 39). The Lancastrian army was commanded by [his future father-in-law] Henry Holland 3rd Duke Exeter (age 30) and included Henry Percy 3rd Earl of Northumberland (age 39), John Mowbray 3rd Duke of Norfolk (age 45), Henry Grey 4th or 7th Baron Grey of Codnor (age 26), Henry Roos and Richard Welles 7th Baron Welles, Baron Willoughby (age 33).
Thomas Ros 9th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 33), William Tailboys 7th Baron Kyme (age 46), John Talbot 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (age 12) and Thomas Tresham (age 41) were knighted.
The Yorkist army included Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury (age 32), William Fitzalan 16th Earl of Arundel (age 43), John Wenlock 1st Baron Wenlock (age 61) and Henry Bourchier 2nd Count of Eu 1st Earl Essex (age 57). John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu (age 30) was captured. Robert Poynings (age 42) and James Luttrell (age 34) were killed.
[his father] John Grey (age 29) was killed fighting for Lancaster. A death that was to have far reaching consequences; his widow [his mother] Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 24) subsequently married [his step-father] King Edward IV of England (age 18).
During the battle William Bonville 1st Baron Bonville (age 68) and Thomas Kyriell (age 65) were assigned to the protection of the King Henry VI. After the battle both were beheaded against all decent laws of battle.
William Bonville 1st Baron Bonville was beheaded. His great granddaughter [his future wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset succeeded 2nd Baroness Bonville.
Thomas Kyriell was beheaded.
William Cotton (age 21) was killed.
Warkworth's Chronicle 1461. 27 Jun 1461.... at the coronacyone1 of the forseyde Edwarde, he create and made dukes his two brythir, the eldere George (age 11) Duke of Clarence, and his yongere brothir Richard (age 8) Duke of Gloucetre; and the Lord Montagu (age 30)2, the Earl of Warwick (age 32)'s brothere, the Earl of Northumberlonde; and one William Stafford squiere, Lord Stafforde of Southwyke; and Sere Herbard (age 38), Lorde Herbard, and after Lorde Earl of Penbroke3; and so the seide Lorde Stafforde (age 22) was made Earl of Devynschire4; the Lorde Gray Ryffyne (age 44), Earl of Kent6; the Lorde Bourchyer (age 57), Earl of Essex; the Lorde Jhon of Bokyngham (age 33), the Earl of Wyltschyre5; Sere Thomas [Walter] Blount (age 45), knyghte, Lord Mont[joy]; Sere Jhon Hawarde, Lorde Hawarde (age 36)8; William Hastynges (age 30) he made Lorde Hastynges and grete Chamberlayne; and the Lorde Ryvers; Denham squyere, Lorde Dynham; and worthy as is afore schewed; and othere of gentylmen and yomenne he made knyghtes and squyres, as they hade desserved.
Note 1. At the coronacyone. King Edward was crowned in Westminster Abbey, on the 29th of June 1461. Warkworth's first passage is both imperfect and incorrect, and would form a very bad specimen of the value of the subsequent portions of his narrative; yet we find it transferred to the Chronicle of Stowe. It must, however, be regarded rather as a memorandum of the various creations to the peerage made during Edward's reign, than as a part of the chronicle. Not even the third peerage mentioned, the Earldom of Northumberland, was conferred at the Coronation, but by patent dated 27 May 1464: and the only two Earldoms bestowed in Edward's first year (and probably at the Coronation) were, the Earldom of Essex, conferred on Henry Viscount Bourchier, Earl of Eu in Normandy, who had married the King's aunt, the Princess Isabel of York; and the Earldom of Kent, conferred on William Neville, Lord Fauconberg, one of King Edward's generals at Towton. The former creation is mentioned by Warkworth lower down in his list; the latter is omitted altogether. - J.G.N.
Note 2. The Lord Montagu. And then Kyng Edward, concidering the greate feate doon by the said Lord Montagu, made hym Earl of Northumberlond; and in July next folowyng th'Earl of Warwyk, with th'ayde of the said Earl of Northumberland, gate agayn the castell of Bamborugh, wheryn was taken Sir Raaf Gray (age 29), which said Ser Raaf was after behedid and quartred at York. Also, in this yere, the first day of May, the Kyng wedded Dame [his mother] Elizabeth Gray (age 24), late wif unto the [his father] lord Gray of Groby, and doughter to the Lord Ryvers." - The London Chronicle, MS. Cotton. Vitell. A. xvi. fol. 126, ro. The MS. of the London Chronicle, from which Sir Harris Nicolas printed his edition, does not contain this passage. It is almost unnecessary to remark the chronological incorrectness of the above, but it serves to show how carelessly these slight Chronicles were compiled. Cf. MS. Add. Mus. Brit. 6113, fol. 192, rº. and MS. Cotton. Otho, B. XIV. fol. 221, ro.
Note 3. Lord Earl of Pembroke. William Lord Herbert of Chepstow, the first of the long line of Herbert Earls of Pembroke, was so created the 27th May 1468. His decapitation by the Duke of Clarence at Northampton in 1469, is noticed by Warkworth in p. 7.-J.G.N.
Note 4. Earl of Devynschire. Humphery Stafford, created Baron Stafford of Southwick by patent 24th April 1464, was advanced to the Earldom of Devon 7th May 1469; but beheaded by the commons at Bridgwater before the close of the same year, as related by Warkworth, ubi supra. - J.G.N.
Note 5. Earl of Wyltschyre. John Stafford, created Earl of Wiltshire, 5th Jan. 1470; he died in 1473.—J.G.N.
Note 6. "The Lorde Gray Ryffyne, Earl of Kent". The Earl of Kent, of the family of Neville, died without male issue, a few months after his elevation to that dignity; and it was conferred on the 30th May 1465, on Edmund Lord Grey de Ruthyn, on occasion of the Queen's coronation. He was cousin-german to Sir John Grey, of Groby, the Queen's first husband. On the same occasion the Queen's son Sir Thomas Grey (age 10) was created Marquess of Dorset; her father [his grandfather] Richard Wydevile (age 60) lord Ryvers was advanced to the dignity of Earl Ryvers; and her brother [his uncle] Anthony (age 25) married to the heiress of Scales, in whose right he was summoned to Parliament as a Baron. - J.G.N.
Note 7. Sere Thomas Blount. This should be Walter, created Lord Montjoy 20th June 1465; he died in 1474.-J.G.N.
Note 8. Sere Jhon Hawarde, Lord Hawarde. John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk. This peerage dates its origin, by writ of summons to Parliament, during the short restoration of Henry VI. in 1470, a circumstance more remarkable as "evidence exists that he did not attach himself to the interest of that Prince, being constitued by Edward, in the same year, commander of his fleet." See Sir Harris Nicolas's memoir of this distinguished person (afterwards the first Duke of Norfolk) in Cartwright's History of the Rape of Bramber, p. 189.-J.G.N.
On 01 May 1464 [his step-father] King Edward IV of England (age 22) and [his mother] Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 27) were married at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map]. [his grandmother] Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford (age 49), Elizabeth's mother, being the only witness. The date not certain. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers (age 59) and Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford. He the son of Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York and Cecily "Rose of Raby" Neville Duchess York (age 48). He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In Oct 1466 Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 11) and Anne Holland (age 5) were married at Greenwich, Kent [Map]. See She the daughter of Henry Holland 3rd Duke Exeter (age 36) and Anne York Duchess Exeter (age 27). He the son of John Grey and Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 29). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 14 Aug 1471 Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 16) was created 1st Earl Huntingdon.
Before 06 Jun 1474 [his wife] Anne Holland (age 13) died.
On 05 Sep 1474 Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 19) and Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 14) were married. He the son of John Grey and Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 37). They were half second cousin once removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
In 1475 Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 20) was created 1st Marquess Dorset. [his wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 14) by marriage Marchioness Dorset.
In 1476 Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 21) was appointed 216th Knight of the Garter by [his step-father] King Edward IV of England (age 33).
On 29 Jul 1476 Edward I's paternal grand-father Edward of York, Richard of York and his younger brother Edmund were reburied at St Mary and All Saints in Fotheringhay [Map] in a ceremony attended by [his step-father] King Edward IV of England (age 34), George York 1st Duke of Clarence (age 26), Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 21), William Hastings 1st Baron Hastings (age 45), [his uncle] Anthony Woodville 2nd Earl Rivers (age 36).
Thomas Whiting, Chester Harald wrote:
n 24 July [1476] the bodies were exhumed, that of the Duke, garbed in an ermine furred mantle and cap of maintenance, covered with a cloth of gold lay in state under a hearse blazing with candles, guarded by an angel of silver, bearing a crown of gold as a reminder that by right the Duke had been a king. On its journey, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, with other lords and officers of arms, all dressed in mourning, followed the funeral chariot, drawn by six horses, with trappings of black, charged with the arms of France and England and preceded by a knight bearing the banner of the ducal arms. Fotheringhay was reached on 29 July, where members of the college and other ecclesiastics went forth to meet the cortege. At the entrance to the churchyard, King Edward waited, together with the Duke of Clarence, the Marquis of Dorset, Earl Rivers, Lord Hastings and other noblemen. Upon its arrival the King made obeisance to the body right humbly and put his hand on the body and kissed it, crying all the time. The procession moved into the church where two hearses were waiting, one in the choir for the body of the Duke and one in the Lady Chapel for that of the Earl of Rutland, and after the King had retired to his closet and the princes and officers of arms had stationed themselves around the hearses, masses were sung and the King's chamberlain offered for him seven pieces of cloth of gold which were laid in a cross on the body. The next day three masses were sung, the Bishop of Lincoln preached a very noble sermon and offerings were made by the Duke of Gloucester and other lords, of The Duke of York's coat of arms, of his shield, his sword, his helmet and his coursers on which rode Lord Ferrers in full armour, holding in his hand an axe reversed. When the funeral was over, the people were admitted into the church and it is said that before the coffins were placed in the vault which had been built under the chancel, five thousand persons came to receive the alms, while four times that number partook of the dinner, served partly in the castle and partly in the King's tents and pavilions. The menu included capons, cygnets, herons, rabbits and so many good things that the bills for it amounted to more than three hundred pounds.
On 22 Jun 1477 [his son] Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 22) and [his wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 16).
In 1479 [his son] Leonard Grey 1st Viscount Grane was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 24) and [his wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 18).
In 1480 [his daughter] Dorothy Grey Baroness Mountjoy, Willoughby and Latimer was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 25) and [his wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 19).
On 27 Jun 1481 George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 13) and [his sister-in-law] Anne Hastings Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford (age 10) were married. She by marriage Countess of Shrewsbury, Countess Waterford. He the son of John Talbot 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury and Catherine Stafford Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford. They were second cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
After 1483 [his son] Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset (age 5) and [his daughter-in-law] Eleanor St John Marchioness Dorset were married. He the son of Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 28) and [his wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 22). They were half third cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 23 Jan 1483 [his grandmother] Elizabeth Ferrers 6th Baroness Ferrers Groby (age 64) died. Her grandson Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 28) succeeded 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby. [his wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 22) by marriage Baroness Ferrers of Groby.
On 25 Mar 1483 [his step-father] King Edward IV of England (age 40) returned to Westminster [Map] from Windsor, Berkshire [Map]. A few days later he became sufficiently unwell to add codicils to his will, and to have urged reconciliation between William Hastings 1st Baron Hastings (age 52) and Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 28); it isn't clear what the cause of the friction between the two men was although it appears well known that Hastings resented the Woodville family.
On 09 Apr 1483 [his step-father] King Edward IV of England (age 40) died at Westminster [Map]. His son [his half-brother] King Edward V of England (age 12) succeeded V King of England. Those present included [his mother] Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 46), William Hastings 1st Baron Hastings (age 52) and Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 28).
On 17 Apr 1483 the coffin of [his step-father] Edward IV (deceased) was carried to Westminster Abbey [Map] by Edward Stanley 1st Baron Monteagle (age 21), John Savage (age 39), Thomas Wortley (age 50), Thomas Molyneux (age 38), probably John Welles 1st Viscount Welles (age 33) who had married Edward's daughter Cecily), John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne (age 41), Walter Hungerford (age 19), Guy Wolston (age 50), John Sapcote (age 35), Thomas Tyrrell (age 30), John Risley, Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 15), John Norreys, Louis de Bretelles and John Comyn 4th Lord Baddenoch.
Those in the procession included:
Thomas St Leger (age 43), widow of Edward's sister Anne.
William Parr (age 49).
William Stonor (age 33).
Henry Ferrers (age 40).
James Radclyffe (age 43).
George Browne (age 43).
Gilbert Debenham (age 51).
John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 58) walked in front of the coffin with Edward's personal arms.
John Marlow Abbot Bermondsey followed by:
Bishop Thomas Kempe (age 93).
Bishop John Hales (age 83) (Bishop of Chester?).
Bishop Robert Stillington (age 63).
Bishop Edward Story.
Bishop William Dudley (age 58).
Cardinal John Morton (age 63) (as Bishop of Ely).
Bishop Edmund Tuchet (age 40) (as Bishop of Rochester).
Bishop Peter Courtenay, and.
[his uncle] Bishop Lionel Woodville (age 36).
Archbishop Thomas Rotherham (age 59) brought up the rear.
Cardinal Thomas Bourchier (age 65), then Archbishop of Canterbury, took no part due to infirmity.
John de la Pole 1st Earl Lincoln (age 21); the King's nephew,.
William Hastings 1st Baron Hastings (age 52).
Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 28).
William Herbert 2nd Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Huntingdon (age 32) (some sources say Earl of Huntingindon?).
William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley (age 57).
Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby (age 48).
Richard Fiennes 7th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 68).
John Sutton 1st Baron Dudley (age 82).
George Neville 4th and 2nd Baron Bergavenny (age 43).
John Tuchet 6th Baron Audley, 3rd Baron Tuchet (age 57).
Walter Devereux Baron Ferrers of Chartley (age 51).
[his uncle] Edward Grey 1st Viscount Lisle (age 51).
Henry Lovell 9th Baron Marshal 8th Baron Morley (age 7).
[his uncle] Richard Woodville 3rd Earl Rivers (age 30).
John Brooke 7th Baron Cobham (age 35).
Richard Hastings Baron Willoughby (age 50).
The History of King Richard the Third by Thomas More. 01 May 1483. And as soon as they came in his presence, they alighted down with all their company about them. To whom the Duke of Buckingham (age 28) said, "Go before, gentlemen and yeomen, keep your rooms." And thus in a goodly array, they came to the [his half-brother] King (age 12) and, on their knees in very humble fashion, assuaged his Grace, who received them in very joyous and amiable manner, nothing earthly knowing nor mistrusting as yet. But even by and by, in his presence, they picked a quarrel with the [his brother] Lord Richard Grey (age 26), the King's other brother by his mother, saying that he, with the Lord Marquis (age 28) his brother and the [his uncle] Lord Rivers (age 43) his uncle, had planned to rule the King and the realm, and to set variance among the lords, and to subdue and destroy the noble blood of the realm. Toward the accomplishing whereof, they said that the Lord Marquis had entered into the Tower of London [Map], and thence taken out the King's treasure, and sent men to the sea. All of which things, these dukes knew well, were done for good purposes and necessary ones by the whole council at London, except that they must say something.
Unto which words, the King answered, "What my brother marquis has done I cannot say. But in good faith I dare well answer for mine uncle Rivers and my brother here, that they be innocent of any such matters.".
"Yea, my Liege," said the Duke of Buckingham, "they have kept their dealing in these matters far from the knowledge of your good Grace.".
And forthwith they arrested the Lord Richard and Sir Thomas Vaughan (age 73), knight, in the King's presence, and brought the King and all back unto Northampton [Map], where they took again further counsel. And there they sent away from the King whomever it pleased them, and set new servants about him, such as liked them better than him. At which dealing he wept and was nothing content, but it remedied not. And at dinner the Duke of Gloucester (age 30) sent a dish from his own table to the Lord Rivers, praying him to be of good cheer, all should be well enough. And he thanked the Duke, and prayed the messenger to bear it to his nephew, the Lord Richard, with the same message for his comfort, who he thought had more need of comfort, as one to whom such adversity was foreign. But for himself, he had been all his days used to a life therewith, and therefore could bear it the better. But for all this comfortable courtesy of the Duke of Gloucester, he sent the Lord Rivers and the Lord Richard with Sir Thomas Vaughan into the north country to different places to prison and, afterwards, all to Pomfrait [Map], where they were, in conclusion, beheaded.
Around 03 May 1483 [his mother] Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 46) took Sanctuary, Westminster Abbey [Map] with [his half-brother] Richard of Shrewsbury 1st Duke of York (age 9) and Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 28). Her brother [his uncle] Bishop Lionel Woodville (age 36) was with her.
Close Rolls Edward IV Edward V Richard III 1476-1485. 23 Oct 1483 King Richard III of England (age 31). Leicester, Leicestershire [Map]. Precept to the Sheriff of Devon to issue a proclamation (English) denouncing Thomas Dorset, late Marquess of Dorset (age 28), who holds unshameful and mischievous woman called Shore's wife in adultery, Sir William Noreys (age 42), Sir William Knevet (age 43), Sir Thomas Bourghchier of Barnes, Sir George Broun, knights, John Cheyne, John Noreis, Walter Hungerford, John Russh and John Harecourt of Staunton, who have assembled the Person by the comfort of the great rebel the late duke of Bukyngham (age 29) and bishops of Ely and Salisbury, and offering rewards for their capture and pardon for all who withdraw from them. By K.
Patent Rolls Richard III 1483. 23 Oct 1483. Leicester. Precept to the sheriff of Devon to issue a proclamation (English) denouncing Thomas Dorset, late marquess of Dorset (age 28), who holds the unshameful and mischievous woman called Shore's wife (age 38) in adultery, Sir William Noreys, Sir William Knevet, Sir Thomas Bourghchier of Barnes, Sir George Broun, knights, John Cheyne, John Noreis, Walter Hungerford, John Russh and John Harecourt of Staunton, who have assembled the people by the comfort of the great rebel the late duke of Bukyngham (age 29) and bishops of Ely and Salisbury, and offering rewards for their capture and pardon for all who withdraw from them. Foedera. By K.
The like to the sheriffs, mayors and bailiffs in the following counties, cities and towns:- Cornwall. Surrey and Sussex. Coventry. Salop. Kent. Bath. Wilts. Middlesex. Winchester. Somerset and Dorset. Hereford. Southampton. Stafford. Gloucester. Town of Devizes. Southampton. London. New Sarum. Oxford and Berks. Bristol. Bridgewater. The like to the king's kinsman William, Earl of Arundel, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports. Commission to John Scrope of Bolton, knight, Edward Redmayn, Halnath Malyverer and Peter Saynabon to arrest and imprison all rebels in the counties of Devon and Cornwall, to take their castles, lordships, manors, lands, chattels and possessions into the king's hands and to enquire into the value and receive the issues of the same, and to certify thereon to the king and council.
The like to the following:- John Zouche of Zouche, knight, Richard Potyer, Richard Tyllys and John Cutte, in the counties of Somerset and Dorset. John Rogger, Richard Danby and Robert Kerre, in the counties of Southampton and Wilts. Francis, Viscount Lovell, Richard Harcourt, knight, William Catesby, esquire of the body, and Edward Fraunk, in the counties of Oxford and Berks.
Around Nov 1483 Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 28) and Eleanor Bohun Countess Ormonde escaped to Henry VII in Brittany [Map]. Walter Hungerford (age 19), Giles Daubeney 1st Baron Daubeney (age 32) and Edward Courtenay 1st Earl Devon (age 24) took part. The rebellion was suppressed by Richard Guildford (age 33) and Robert Willoughby 1st Baron Willoughby 9th Baron Latimer (age 31).
On 07 Dec 1484 King Richard III of England (age 32) issued a proclamation against the Lancastrian rebels:
Forasmuch as the King our sovereign lord hath certain knowledge that Piers Bishop of Exeter, Thomas Grey (age 29) late Marquis Dorset, Jasper Tydder (age 53) son of Owen Tidder calling himself Earl of Pembroke, John (age 42) late Earl of Oxford and Sir [his uncle] Edward Wideville (age 28), with other diverse his rebels and traitors disabled and attainted by authority of the high court of parliament (of whom many ben known for open murderers, adulterers & extortioners, contrary to the pleasure of God and against all truth, honour & nature), have forsaken their natural country, taking them first to be under the observance of the duke of Brittany, and to him promised certain things which by him & his council were thought things too greatly unnatural and abominable for them to grant, observe, keep and perform, and therefore the same utterly refused.
The said traitors, seeing that the said duke and his council would not aid and succour them nor follow their ways, privily departed out of his country into France, there taking them to be under th’obeissance of the King’s ancient enemy Charles calling himself king of France; and, to abuse and blind the commons of this said realm, the said rebels & traitors have chosen to be their captain one Henry Tydder (age 27), son of Edmond Tydder, son of Owen Tidder, which of his ambitious & insatiable covetise, stirred and excited by the confederacy of the King’s said rebels and traitors, encroacheth upon him the name and title of royal estate of this realm of England, whereunto he hath no manner interest, right or colour, as every man well knoweth.
And, to th’intent to achieve the same by the aid, support and assistance of the King’s said ancient enemies and of this his realm, hath covenanted and bargained with him and with all the council of France to give up and release in perpetuity all the title and claim that the kings of England have had and ought to have to the crown and realm of France, together with the duchies of Normandy, Gascony and Guienne, castles and towns of Calais, Guisnes, Hammes with the marches pertaining to the same. And over this, and beside the alienation / of all the premises into the possession of the king’s said ancient enemies, to the greatest aneyntesment, shame and rebuke that ever might fall to this land, the said Herry Earl of Richmond and all the other the king’s rebels and traitors aforesaid have intended at their coming to do the most cruel murders, slaughters, robberies and disherisons that ever were seen in any Christian realm.
For the which, and other inestimable dangers to be eschewed, and to th’intent that the King’s said rebels and traitors may either be utterly put from their said malicious purposes or soon discomfited if they enforce to land, the King our said sovereign lord desireth, willeth and chargeth all and everyche of the natural subjects of this his realm to call the premises to their mind and, like good and true Englishmen, to endeavour themselves at all their powers for the defence of themselves, their wives, children, goods and inheritances against the said malicious purposes and conspirations which the ancient enemies of this land have made with the King’s said rebels for the final destruction of the same land as is aforesaid.
And our said sovereign lord, as a well-willed, diligent and courageous prince, will put his most royal person to all labour and pain necessary in this behalf for the resistence and subduing of his said enemies, rebels and traitors, to the most comfort, wele and surety of all and singular his true and faithful liegemen and subjects. And these our letters shall be therein your warrant.
Given under our Signet at our palace of Westminster the 7 day of December the 2nd year of our reign.
To the right reverend father in God our right trusty and wellbeloved the Bishop of Lincoln, our chancellor of England.
The History of King Richard the Third by Thomas More. [his step-father] King Edward in his life, although this dissension between his friends somewhat irked him, yet in his good health he somewhat the less regarded it because he thought whatsoever business should fall between them, he should always be able to rule both parties. But in his last sickness, when he perceived his natural strength so sore enfeebled that he despaired all recovery, then he, considering the youth of his children, suspecting nothing less than what would happen, and well foreseeing that many harms might grow by family debates while the youth of his children lacked discretion of themselves, and good counsel of their friends-because either party should counsel for their own advantage and by pleasant advice win themselves favor, rather than by profitable advertisement do the children good-he called some of them before him who were at variance, and especially, the Lord Marquis Dorset (age 30), the [his mother] Queen's (age 48) son by her first [his father] husband, and Lord Hastings [Note. Text says Richard? Should be William!], a noble man, then Lord Chamberlain, against whom the Queen specially grudged for that great favor the King showed him, and also because she thought him secretly familiar with the King in wanton company. Her kindred also bore him dislike, as well for that the King had made him Captain of Calais (which office the [his uncle] Lord Rivers, brother to the Queen, claimed because of the King's former promise), and for diverse other great gifts which he received that they looked for.
In 1491 [his daughter] Mary Grey Baroness Ferrers Chartley was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 36) and [his wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 30).
On 08 Jun 1492 [his mother] Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 55) died at Bermondsey [Map]. She was buried at the Altar, St George's Chapel [Map].
Around 1497 [his daughter] Elizabeth Grey Countess Kildare was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 42) and [his wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 36).
Before 1500 [his son-in-law] John Arundell of Lanherne (age 25) and [his daughter] Eleanor Grey were married. She the daughter of Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 44) and [his wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 39). They were fourth cousins. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
In May 1501 [his son-in-law] Walter Devereux 1st Viscount Hereford (age 13) and [his daughter] Mary Grey Baroness Ferrers Chartley (age 10) were married. She the daughter of Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 46) and [his wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 40). They were second cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 20 Sep 1501 Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 46) died. On 20 Sep 1501 His son [his son] Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset (age 24) succeeded 2nd Marquess Dorset, 2nd Earl Huntingdon, 8th Baron Ferrers of Groby. [his daughter-in-law] Eleanor St John Marchioness Dorset by marriage Marchioness Dorset.
Around 1504 Henry Stafford 1st Earl Wiltshire (age 25) and [his former wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 43) were married. He the son of Henry Stafford 2nd Duke of Buckingham and [his aunt] Catherine Woodville Duchess Buckingham Duchess Bedford. They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 12 May 1529 [his former wife] Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset (age 68) died. She was buried at Church St Mary the Virgin, Astley.
[his son] Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset (age 51) succeeded 8th Baron Harington, 3rd Baron Bonville,
Henry Machyn's Diary. 15 Nov 1557. The xv day of November was bered ser (blank) [his grandson] Arundell (deceased) knyght, with iiij branche tapers of wax, and penselles ij dosen, and vj dosen skochyons, and a standard, pennon, and cott armur, elmett, targatt, sword; and ij whyt branchys, and ij dosen torchys, and mony morners, and a grett dener.
Note. P. 158. Funeral of sir [John] Arundell. "Sir John Arundell knight dyed at his manner of Southorne in the county of Oxford the 7th of November in A°. 1557, and was buryed the xiiijth of the same mounth in the parish churche there." (MS. Harl. 897, f. 15b.) He was the elder son of sir [his former son-in-law] Thomas Arundell [Note. Mistake for John?], who died in 1545, by lady [his daughter] Alianor Grey, daughter of Thomas marquess of Dorset; and brother to sir [his grandson] Thomas, who was beheaded in 1551–2 (see pp. 15, 323.) Sir John was also for some time confined in the Tower; as mentioned in the minutes of the privy council April 7, 1550, and 13 April 1551 (see MS. Harl. 352, ff. 76, 149b.) By lady Anne Stanley (age 15), daughter of Edward earl of Derby, he was ancestor of the Arundells of Lanherne in Cornwall and Chideock in Dorsetshire. [Note. It was his son [his great grandson] John Arundell (age 27) who married Anne Stanley Baroness Stourton.]
[his son] Edward Grey was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset and Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset.
[his son] George Grey was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset and Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset.
[his daughter] Cecily Grey Baroness Dudley was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset and Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset.
[his son] John Grey was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset and Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset.
[his son] Richard Grey was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset and Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset.
[his daughter] Eleanor Grey was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset and Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset.
[his daughter] Margaret Grey was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset and Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset.
[his daughter] Bridget Grey was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset and Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset.
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