Paternal Family Tree: Grandison
Maternal Family Tree: Sibylla Tregoz Baroness Grandison
Before 1289 [his father] William Grandison 1st Baron Grandison [aged 26] and [his mother] Sibylla Tregoz Baroness Grandison were married.
In 1292 Bishop John Grandison 3rd Baron Grandison was born to William Grandison 1st Baron Grandison [aged 30] and Sibylla Tregoz Baroness Grandison at Ashperton, Ledbury.
In 1306 [his brother-in-law] John Northwoode and [his sister] Agnes Grandison Baroness Bardolf [aged 17] were married.
Around 1320 [his brother-in-law] William Montagu 1st Earl Salisbury [aged 19] and [his sister] Catherine Grandison Countess of Salisbury [aged 16] were married. She by marriage Baroness Montagu.
Adam Murimuth Continuation. In this year, on the feast of Saint John the Baptist [24th June 1327], James [Berkeley], bishop of Exeter, died at Petershegs in his diocese. Although John of Godeleye, dean of Wells, was afterwards unanimously elected, the pope provided the church of Exeter with Lord John of Grandison [aged 35], who was consecrated at the papal court on the feast of Saint Luke [18th October] in the year of our Lord 1327.
Isto anno, in festo sancti Johannis baptistæ, est Jacobus episcopus Exoniensis mortuus apud Petreshegkes in sua diœcesi. Et licet Johannes de Godeleye, decanus Wellensis, concorditer postmodum fuisset electus, tamen providit ecclesiæ Exoniensi papa de domino Johanne de Grandissono, qui in festo sancti Lucæ, anno Domini MCCCXVII, fuit in curia consecratus.
On 10th August 1327 Bishop John Grandison 3rd Baron Grandison [aged 35] was appointed Bishop of Exeter.
On 10th September 1327 Bishop John Grandison 3rd Baron Grandison [aged 35] was consecrated Bishop of Exeter.
Adam Murimuth Continuation. In the year of the Lord 1327, in the twelfth year of Pope John and the first year of King Edward III from the Conquest, it should be noted that the expression from 'the Conquest' was devised by certain learned men to distinguish the third Edward, because two kings of the same name had preceded him after William the Conqueror, namely his grandfather and his father. The first was called Edward of Winchester, the second Edward of Caernarfon, from the places where they were born. It should also be noted that King William can improperly be called the Conqueror, since he was the nephew and rightful heir of Saint Edward. Nevertheless he is commonly called the Conqueror because he defeated Harold not by judicial right but by force and thus acquired his claim by his own power. In that year the pope caused John of Grandison [aged 35] to be consecrated bishop of Exeter on the feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist [18th October]. His promotion was announced at Exeter on Ash Wednesday, and in the octave of the following Assumption he entered the city.
Anno Domini millesimo CCCXXVII, dicti vero Johannis papæ XIJ, et regis Edwardi tertii a conquæstu primoet nota quod hoc verbum, "a conquæstu", a quibusdam mundi sapientibus est inventum ad denotandum tertium Edwardum, eo quod duo ejusdem nominis eum præcesserant post Willelmum conquæstorem, scilicet avus suus et pater; quorum primus vocabatur Edwardus de Wyntonia, secundus de Carnervan, locis in quibus nati fuerunt. Item, notandum quod Willelmus rex improprie potest dici conquæstor, quia ipse fuit nepos et verus heres beati Edwardi; dici tamen consuevit conquæstor quia, non per judicium sed per potentiam, devicit Haraldum et jus suum virtute propria adquisivit. Anno igitur prædicto papa fecit consecrari dominum Johannem de Grandissono in episcopum Exoniensem, in festo sancti Lucæ evangelistæ; cujus promotio fuit in die Cinerum postes Exoniæ publicata, et in octavis Assumptionis sequentis Exoniam intravit.
On 10th June 1330 [his brother] Piers Grandison 2nd Baron Grandison [aged 39] and [his sister-in-law] Blanche Mortimer Baroness Grandison [aged 18] were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years. She the daughter of Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March [aged 43] and Joan Geneville Baroness Mortimer 2nd Baroness Geneville [aged 44].
In 1331 [his brother-in-law] Thomas Bardolf 2nd Baron Bardolf [aged 48] and [his sister] Agnes Grandison Baroness Bardolf [aged 42] were married. She by marriage Baroness Bardolf of Wormegay in Norfolk.
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On 27th June 1335 [his father] William Grandison 1st Baron Grandison [aged 73] died at Lambourne, Berkshire [Map]. His son [his brother] Piers [aged 44] succeeded 2nd Baron Grandison. [his sister-in-law] Blanche Mortimer Baroness Grandison [aged 23] by marriage Baroness Grandison.
On 23rd November 1349 [his sister] Agnes Grandison Baroness Bardolf [aged 60] died at Ruskington.
On 23rd November 1349 [his sister] Catherine Grandison Countess of Salisbury [aged 45] died at Bisham Abbey [Map].
On 10th August 1358 Piers Grandison 2nd Baron Grandison [aged 67] died at Ashperton, Ledbury. His brother John [aged 66] succeeded 3rd Baron Grandison.
On 16th July 1369 Bishop John Grandison 3rd Baron Grandison [aged 77] died. He was buried at Exeter Cathedral [Map]. His nephew Thomas [aged 30] succeeded 4th Baron Grandison. Margaret Carew Baroness Grandison and Beauchamp by marriage Baroness Grandison.
Adam Murimuth Continuation. In addition to the above, I have also made slight use of the Harley MS. 1729, in the British Museum, containing an imperfect copy of Higden's"Polychronicon," of the 15th century, into which is incorporated Murimuth's chronicle from the beginning of Edward III.'s reign to 1339. After this year there is a gap, the text proceeding immediately with the text of Higden from 1353. The enlargement of the personal history of bishop Grandison of Exeter and other local details which occur in this MS. were no doubt additions originally made to some copy of Murimuth's chronicle at Exeter, his connection with the cathedral church of that place accounting for its presence there.
Grandfather: Pierre Grandison
Bishop John Grandison 3rd Baron Grandison
mother: Sibylla Tregoz Baroness Grandison