Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis 1503-1551

Paternal Family Tree: Grey

Maternal Family Tree: Cecily Willoughby Baroness Dudley 1463-1539

In or before 1503 Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis was born to John Grey 2nd Baron Grey of Powis [aged 17] and Margaret Dudley Baroness Grey Powis. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry IV of England.

In 1504 [his father] John Grey 2nd Baron Grey of Powis [aged 19] died. His son Edward [aged 1] succeeded 3rd Baron Grey of Powis.

In 1525 Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis [aged 22] and Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis [aged 18] were married. She by marriage Baroness Grey of Powis. She the illegitmate daughter of Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 41] and Anne Browne. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry IV of England.

In 1533 Henry Grey 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 16] and [his sister-in-law] Frances Brandon Duchess of Suffolk [aged 15] were married. She by marriage Marchioness Dorset. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 49] and Mary Tudor Queen Consort France [aged 36]. He the son of Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset and Margaret Wotton Marchioness Dorset [aged 46]. They were half second cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

Death and Funeral of Mary Tudor

On 25th June 1533 Mary Tudor Queen Consort France [aged 37] died at Westhorpe, Suffolk [Map]. She was buried at the monastery of St. Edmondsbury [Map] on 22nd July 1533. Her daughter [his sister-in-law] Frances [aged 15] was Chief Mourner.

On 1st March 1534 [his brother-in-law] Henry Brandon [aged 11] died at Southwark, Surrey [Map]. Earl Lincoln extinct.

In 1538 [his wife] Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis [aged 31] left her husband Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis [aged 35] for Randal Haworth.

In 1540 Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis [aged 37] petitioned the Privy Council to punish his wife Anne [aged 33] for adultery, and also accused Anne and Randal Haworth of conspiring to murder him. No action was taken against Anne, and she remained with Randal Haworth; however, this scandalous arrangement caused her to be excluded from Charles Brandon's [aged 56] will.

On 22nd August 1545 [his father-in-law] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 61] died. His son [his brother-in-law] Henry [aged 9] succeeded 2nd Duke Suffolk, 2nd Viscount Lisle.

1551 Sweating Sickness Outbreak

On 2nd July 1551 Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis [aged 48] died of sweating sickness. Baron Grey of Powis abeyant.

By an inquisition taken at Montgomery, 5 Edward VI, 1551, after the death of Edward last Lord Powes, it appears "that Edward Grey Lord Powes in his life suffered a recovery, and made a deed of feoffment, and made a will and codicil, whereby in default of lawful issue of his own body, he limited the inheritance of his whole estate to Edward Grey, his bastard son by Jane Orwell, daughter of Sir Lewis Orwell, Knight, and the other heirs of his body, with remainders to his daughters by the said Jane Orwell, and the heirs of their bodies, successively, with remainders in fee to his own right heirs." And the jury find, that the said Edward Grey was his consanguineus et heres in remanen', which, by a decree of the Court of Wards, 27 Elizabeth, hereafter mentioned, is explained to be hæres factus. See "The Feudal Barons of Powys".

Henry Machyn's Diary. The vij day of July begane a nuw swet in London, and ... ded my lord Crumwell [deceased] in Leseter-shyre, and was bered [with a stand]ard, a baner of armes, and cote, elmett, sword, targett, and sc [ochyons, and] harold; and the sam tyme ded my lord Powes [deceased], and the x day [at W]ollwyche, sir John Lutterell [aged 32], knyght, a nobull captayne.

Note. Death of lord Cromwell. Gregory lord Cromwell died on the 4th of July 1551, and was buried at Laund in Leicestershire: his mural monument there is engraved in Nichols's History of that County, vol. iii. pl. xlv.

Note. Death of lord Powis. Edward third lord Grey of Powis. The funeral of his widow, a daughter of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, occurs in p. 163.

Note. Sir John Luttrell, of Dunster castle, co. Somerset, knighted at the taking of Leith in 1547, and made a knight banneret soon after, at the taking of Yester. Just before his death he had been divorced from his wife, for Strype notices "A Commission to sir William Petre, secretary, sir Richard Read, &c. upon due proof of the manifest adultery of the lady Mary Luttrel, to separate and divorce her from sir John Luttrel her husband. Dated in June, 1551." (Memorials, Book ii. chap. 29.) She was the daughter of sir John Griffith, K.B. and was remarried to James Godolphin, of Cornwall.

Memoires of Jacques du Clercq

This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.

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In 1557 [his former wife] Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis [aged 50] died.

[his father] John Grey 2nd Baron Grey of Powis and [his mother] Margaret Dudley Baroness Grey Powis were married. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry IV of England.

Ancestors of Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis 1503-1551

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Grey

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Grey 1st Earl Tankerville 3 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Mowbray 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Grey 2nd Earl Tankerville 4 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Charleton 5th Baron Cherleton 3 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Charleton Countess Tankerville 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Grey 3rd Earl Tankerville Great Grandson of King Henry IV of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: King Henry IV of England Grandson of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Lancaster 1st Duke Gloucester son of King Henry IV of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Bohun 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Antigone Lancaster Countess Tankerville Granddaughter of King Henry IV of England

Grandfather: John Grey 1st Baron Grey of Powis 2 x Great Grandson of King Henry IV of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tuchet 6 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Tuchet 4th Baron Audley, 1st Baron Tuchet 7 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Abrichecourt

Great x 2 Grandfather: James Tuchet 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet 8 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 7 x Great Grandson of King David I of Scotland

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stafford Baroness Audley Heighley 8 x Great Granddaughter of King David I of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Greville

Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Tuchet Countess Tankerville 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Kent Great Grandson of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Holland 4th Earl Kent 2 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Fitzalan Countess Kent 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Holland Baroness Audley Heighley Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund of Langley 1st Duke of York son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Constance York Countess Gloucester Granddaughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabella of Castile Duchess York 6 x Great Granddaughter of Alfonso II King Aragon

father: John Grey 2nd Baron Grey of Powis 3 x Great Grandson of King Henry IV of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: William ap Thomas "Blue Knight of Gwent" Herbert

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke

Great x 4 Grandfather: Llewellyn Brecon

Great x 3 Grandfather: Dafydd Gam Brecon

Great x 2 Grandmother: Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam "Star of Abergavenny" Brecon

Grandmother: Anne Herbert Baroness Grey Powis 9 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Devereux 5 x Great Grandson of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Devereux 6 x Great Grandson of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Walter Devereux 7 x Great Grandson of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Crophull 5 x Great Grandson of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Crophull 6 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Devereux 8 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Merbury

Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis 4 x Great Grandson of King Henry IV of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Sutton 3rd Baron Sutton 6 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Sutton 4th Baron Sutton 7 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Unknown Baroness Sutton Dudley

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Sutton 1st Baron Dudley 8 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Blount 8 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Constance Blount Baroness Sutton Dudley 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sancha Toledo

Great x 1 Grandfather: Edmund Sutton 6 x Great Grandson of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Berkeley 8th and 3rd Baron Berkeley 3 x Great Grandson of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Berkeley 4 x Great Grandson of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Clivedon Baroness Berkeley

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Berkeley Baroness Cherleton Baroness Dudley 5 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bettershorne

Grandfather: Edward Sutton 2nd Baron Dudley 5 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tiptoft 2nd Baron Tibetot 4 x Great Grandson of King William I of Scotland

Great x 3 Grandfather: Pain Tiptoft 5 x Great Grandson of King William I of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Aspall Baroness Tibetot

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft 6 x Great Grandson of King William I of Scotland

Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Wrothe

Great x 1 Grandmother: Joyce Tiptoft 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Charleton 3rd Baron Cherleton 5 x Great Grandson of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Charleton 5th Baron Cherleton 3 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Stafford Baroness Cherleton and Talbot 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Joyce Charleton Baroness Tiptoft 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Kent Great Grandson of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Fitzalan Countess Kent 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England

mother: Margaret Dudley Baroness Grey Powis 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Willoughby 4th Baron Willoughby 9 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Willoughby 5th Baron Willoughby 6 x Great Grandson of King William I of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margery Zouche Baroness Willoughby of Eresby 5 x Great Granddaughter of King William I of Scotland

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Willoughby of Parham 7 x Great Grandson of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Strange 5th Baron Strange Knockin 6 x Great Grandson of King William I of Scotland

Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Strange Baroness Willoughby Eresby 6 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Aline Fitzalan Baroness Strange Knockin 5 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Willoughby 5 x Great Grandson of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fitzalan 1st Baron Arundel Baron Maltravers 2 x Great Grandson of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 3 x Great Grandson of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Maltravers 2nd Baroness Maltravers Baroness Arundel and Cobham 5 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Fitzalan 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England

Grandmother: Cecily Willoughby Baroness Dudley 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England

Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis 1503-1551

Royal Ancestors of Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis 1503-1551

Ancestors of Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis 1503-1551