Grey family

Grey
Grey
Country	United Kingdom
Earlier spellings	de Greye
Place of origin	Normandy
Founded	11th century
Founder	Anchetil de Greye
Titles	• Queen of England; • Queen of Ireland; • Duke of Suffolk; • Duke of Kent; • Marquess of Dorset; • Earl of Stamford; • Earl of Huntingdon; • Earl of Tankerville; • Earl de Grey; • Earl Grey; • Earl of Kent; • Viscount Fallodon; • Viscount Glendale; • Viscount Howick; • Baron Powis; • Baron Wilton; • Baron Werke; • Baron Codnor; • Baron Bonville; • Baron Walsingham; • Baron Rotherfield; • Lord Gray ; • Grey baronets
Estate(s)	• Wingfield Castle; • Bradgate House; • Dunham Massey

The Grey family is an English family, descending from the Anglo-Norman de Greye family.^[1] The patriarch of the family was Anchetil de Greye, a Norman chevalier and vassal of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, one of the few proven companions of William the Conqueror known to have fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.^[2]^[3]

In the 13th century, the Greys were ennobled as Barons Grey of Codnor, and of Ruthyn, and of Wilton. Some members of the family were later elevated as viscounts, earls, marquesses, dukes, and in the 16th century, one member became monarch.^[4] Among them, King Edward VI declared his cousin Lady Jane Grey, "the Nine Days Queen", to be his successor as monarch of England and Ireland, and on his death, she reigned from 10 July through 19 July 1553 (according to her claim as the great-granddaughter of King Henry VII via her parents Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, daughter of Mary Tudor, Queen of France), until she was deposed by her cousin Mary I, Queen of England, Ireland and Spain, known as "Bloody Mary". Notably, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and abolished slavery in the British Empire in 1833.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Grey lineage

11th century

Anchetil de Greye (c. 1052 – after 1086) is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the lord of six Oxfordshire manors.^[9] His descendant was Sir Henry de Grey.^[10]

13th century

Photograph of the statue. — Grey's Monument (erected in 1833), in remembrance of Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, abolisher of slavery in the British Empire (1833)

Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton (c. 1240–1308) was the son of Sir John de Grey and the namesake of one of the four Inns of Court, being Gray's Inn, which became of Reginald de Grey's Portpoole Manor. He was one of three commanders appointed by Edward I of England in his 1282 campaign against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the rebellious last native Prince of Wales.^[11]

14th century

John de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Rotherfield (c. 1300–1359) is listed in the Bruges Garter Book as a founding knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and a companion of Edward the Black Prince.^[12] He was Lord Steward of the Royal Household of King Edward III.^[13]

The Streatham portrait of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days' Queen, monarch of England and Ireland

16th century

Lady Jane Grey (c. 1537–1554) "the Nine Days' Queen" was the daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Queen of England and Ireland. Lady Jane was the great-granddaughter of King Henry VII through his daughter Mary Tudor, Queen of France. Due to this and her avowed Protestantism, King Edward VI nominated Lady Jane as his successor to the Crown, and she became Queen of England and Ireland on 10 July 1553, until her deposition on 19 July 1553 by Mary I of England. In February 1554, both she and her father were executed for treason.^[14]

19th century

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (c. 1764–1845) was the son of Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lord Grey's government enacted the abolition of slavery in the British Empire by initiating the mass purchase of slaves from their owners in 1833. He had previously resigned as foreign secretary in 1807 to protest the King's uncompromising rejection of Catholic Emancipation. He is the namesake of Earl Grey tea.^[15]

Arms of Baron Grey of Codnor on a ceiling boss in the South Porch of Canterbury Cathedral, built in 1422

20th century

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (c. 1862–1933) is Britain’s longest serving Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1905–1916). He was the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of World War I, the centrepiece of his foreign policy being the defence of France against German aggression, while avoiding a binding alliance with Paris. His most consequential achievement in foreign policy was otherwise securing the Anglo-Russian entente of 1907.^[16]^[17]

Family tree

Partial family tree

Sir Henry de Grey
- Richard de Grey
  - John de Grey of Codnor
    - Henry Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Codnor^[18]
      - Richard Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Codnor
        John Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Codnor
        Henry Grey
        Richard Grey, 4th Baron Grey of Codnor
        John Grey, 5th Baron Grey of Codnor
        
        Henry Grey, 6th Baron Grey of Codnor
        Henry Grey, 7th Baron Grey of Codnor
- Sir John de Grey
  - Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton^[19]
    - John Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Wilton
      - Henry Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Wilton
        Reginald Grey, 4th Baron Grey de Wilton
        Henry Grey, 5th Baron Grey de Wilton
        Richard Grey, 6th Baron Grey de Wilton
        Reginald Grey, 7th Baron Grey de Wilton
        John Grey, 8th Baron Grey de Wilton
        Edmund Grey, 9th Baron Grey de Wilton
        George Grey, 10th Baron Grey de Wilton
        
        Thomas Grey, 11th Baron Grey de Wilton
        
        Richard Grey, 12th Baron Grey de Wilton
        
        William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton
        Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton
        Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton
        
        Bridget Egerton, married Sir Roland Egerton, 1st Baronet
        Sir John Egerton, 2nd Baronet
        Sir John Egerton, 3rd Baronet
        Sir Holland Egerton, 4th Baronet
        Sir Edward Egerton, 5th Baronet
        
        Sir Thomas Grey Egerton, 6th Baronet
        Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton
        
        Sir Philip Egerton
        Philip Egerton
        John Egerton
        Philip Egerton
        Sir John Grey Egerton, 8th Baronet
        
        Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 9th Baronet
        Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet
        Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 11th Baronet
        Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 12th Baronet
        
        William Henry Egerton
        Sir Brooke de Malpas Grey Egerton, 13th Baronet
        
        Caledon Richard Egerton
        Caledon Philip Egerton
        Sir Philip Reginald le Belward Grey Egerton, 14th Baronet
        Sir John Grey Egerton, 15th Baronet
        
        Sir Charles Comyn Egerton
        Wion de Malpas Egerton
        Sir David Egerton, 16th Baronet
        Sir William de Malpas Egerton, 17th Baronet
      - Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Ruthin^[20]
        Reynold Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Ruthin
        Reynold Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthin
        Sir John Grey
        Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent
        George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent
        Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent
        
        Anne Grey, Baroness Hussey
        
        Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent
        Henry Grey
        Reginald Grey, 5th Earl of Kent
        
        Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent
        
        Charles Grey, 7th Earl of Kent
        Henry Grey, 8th Earl of Kent
        
        Susan Grey, married Sir Michael Longueville
        Charles Longueville, 12th Baron Grey of Ruthin
        Susan Longueville, 13th Baroness Grey of Ruthin, married Sir Henry Yelverton, 2nd Baronet
        Charles Yelverton, 14th Baron Grey of Ruthin
        
        Henry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Longueville, 15th Baron Grey of Ruthin
        Talbot Yelverton, 1st Earl of Sussex, 16th Baron Grey of Ruthin
        George Augustus Yelverton, 2nd Earl of Sussex, 17th Baron Grey of Ruthin
        
        Henry Yelverton, 3rd Earl of Sussex, 18th Baron Grey of Ruthin
        Lady Barbara Yelverton, married Edward Thoroton Gould
        Henry Yelverton, 19th Baron Grey of Ruthin
        Barbara Rawdon-Hastings, Marchioness of Hastings, 20th Baroness Grey of Ruthin
        Henry Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings, 21st Baron Grey of Ruthin
        
        Bertha Clifton, 22nd Baroness Grey of Ruthin
        Rawdon George Grey Clifton, 23rd Baron Grey of Ruthin
        
        Cecil Talbot Clifton, 24th Baron Grey of Ruthin
        
        Ella Cicely Mary Clifton, married Lancelot George Butler-Bowdon
        John Lancelot Wykeham Butler-Bowdon, 25th Baron Grey of Ruthin
        
        Anthony Grey
        George Grey
        Anthony Grey, 9th Earl of Kent
        Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent
        Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent
        Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, 1st Marquess Grey
        Anthony Grey, Earl of Harold
        
        Lady Amabel Grey, married John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
        Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Grey, married Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke
        Amabel Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Grey
        
        Lady Mary Jemima Yorke, married Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham
        Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey
        
        Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon
        George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, 3rd Earl de Grey
        Frederick Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon, 4th Earl de Grey
        
        Thomas Grey, 1st Baron Richemount Grey
        
        Margaret Grey
        
        Edward Grey, 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby^[21]
        Sir John Grey of Groby
        Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset
        Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset
        Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk
        Lady Jane Grey
        
        Lady Katherine Grey
        
        Lady Mary Grey
        
        Lord John Grey
        Henry Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Groby
        Sir John Grey
        Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford
        Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby
        Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford
        
        Anchitell Grey
        
        John Grey
        Harry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford
        Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford
        George Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford
        George Grey, 6th Earl of Stamford
        George Grey, 8th Baron Grey of Groby
        George Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford
        
        Booth Grey
        Booth Grey
        
        John Grey
        Harry Grey
        Harry Grey, 8th Earl of Stamford
        
        William Grey
        William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford
        Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford
        
        John Grey
        
        Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane
        
        Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kildare
        
        Eleanor Grey
        
        Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle
        John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle
        Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle
        
        Elizabeth Grey, 6th Baroness Lisle
        
        Ida de Grey
- William de Grey
  - Sir Thomas de Grey
    - Sir Thomas de Grey
      - Fulke de Grey
        William de Grey
        William de Grey
        Thomas de Grey
        Edmund de Grey
        Robert de Grey
        Sir William de Grey
        James de Grey
        William de Grey
        Thomas de Grey
        Thomas de Grey
        
        William de Grey, 1st Baron Walsingham
        Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham
        George de Grey, 3rd Baron Walsingham
        
        Thomas de Grey, 4th Baron Walsingham
        Thomas de Grey, 5th Baron Walsingham
        Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham
        
        John Augustus de Grey, 7th Baron Walsingham
        George de Grey, 8th Baron Walsingham
        John de Grey, 9th Baron Walsingham
- Robert de Grey
  - Walter de Grey
    - Sir Robert de Grey
      - John de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Rotherfield
        John de Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Rotherfield
        John de Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Rotherfield
        Bartholomew de Grey, 4th Baron Grey de Rotherfield
        
        Robert de Grey, 5th Baron Grey de Rotherfield

(Separate family?)

Sir Thomas Grey
- Sir Thomas Grey
  - Sir Thomas Grey
    - John Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville
      - Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville
        Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville
        John Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Powis
        John Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Powis
        Edward Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Powis
    - Sir Thomas Grey
      - Sir Ralph Grey
        Ralph Grey
        Sir Edward Grey
        Sir Ralph Grey
        Sir Ralph Grey
        William Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Werke
        Ralph Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Werke
        Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville
        
        Ralph Grey, 4th Baron Grey of Werke
        
        Catherine Grey, married Richard Neville
        Grey Neville
        
        Henry Grey
        
        Catherine Grey, married Charles North, 5th Baron North, 1st Baron Grey
        William North, 6th Baron North, 2nd Baron Grey
        
        Sir Edward Grey
        Philip Grey
        Edward Grey
        John Grey
        John Grey
        Sir Henry Grey, 1st Baronet
        Sir Henry Grey, 2nd Baronet
        
        Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey
        Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
        Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey
        
        Charles Grey
        Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
        Charles Grey, 5th Earl Grey
        
        Lady Sybil Grey
        
        Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim
        
        Sir Frederick Grey
        
        George Grey
        Harry George Grey
        
        Francis William Grey
        George Archibald Grey
        Albert Henry George Campbell Grey
        Richard Grey, 6th Earl Grey
        
        Philip Kent Grey, 7th Earl Grey
        
        Sir Henry George Grey
        
        Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet
        Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
        George Henry Grey
        Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
        
        Charles Samuel Grey
        Harry George Grey
        Sir Charles George Grey, 4th Baronet
        
        Sir Harry Martin Grey, 5th Baronet
        
        Edward George Grey
        Sir Robin Edward Dysart Grey, 6th Baronet
        Edward Elton Grey
        Sir Anthony Dysart Grey, 7th Baronet
        
        Edward Grey
        
        John Grey
        Charles Grey
        Sir John Grey
    - William Grey

Arms of the Greys

John Grey,
1st Baron Grey de Rotherfield
Richard Grey,
4th Baron Grey de Codnor
Arthur Grey,
14th Baron Grey de Wilton
Richard Grey,
3rd Earl of Kent
Thomas Grey,
1st Marquess of Dorset
Henry Grey,
Duke of Suffolk
Marchioness Grey
Barons Walsingham
Earls of Stamford and Warrington
Earls of Wilton
Grey-Egerton baronets
Charles Cornwall-Legh, 5th Baron Grey

References

^ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Jane-Grey
^ Open Domesday Online: Ansketil de Graye, accessed January 2017
^ "Gray" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 395.
^ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Jane-Grey
^ https://www.museumofpm.org/prime-ministers/charles-grey-2nd-earl-grey/#:~:text=In%201833%2C%20his%20government%20abolished%20slavery%20in%20the,Factory%20Act%20and%20a%20new%20Poor%20Law%20Act.
^ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Grey-1st-Earl-Grey
^ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Grey-2nd-Earl-Grey
^ https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/charles-grey-2nd-earl-grey
^ "Ansketil (Of Graye) | Domesday Book".
^ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Grey-1st-Earl-Grey
^ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Grey-1st-Earl-Grey
^ Shaw, Wm. A. (1971). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Knights Bachelors. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 1. OCLC 247620448.
^ Henry Summerson, ‘Grey, John, first Lord Grey of Rotherfield (1300–1359)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11544
^ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Jane-Grey
^ Kramer, Ione. All the Tea in China. China Books, 1990. ISBN 0-8351-2194-1. Pages 180–181.
^ Viscount Grey of Fallodon: Twenty-Five Years 1892–1916 (New York, 1925) p. 20 books.google.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) p. 8.
^ www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk: Grey of Codnor, B.
^ www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk: Grey of Wilton, B
^ www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk: Grey of Ruthin, B
^ www.nationalarchives.gov.uk: Stamford and Warrington archives

Bibliography

William Dugdale, Baronage of England (London, 1675–76).
Arthur Collins, Peerage of England (fifth edition, London, 1779).

External links

[1] ttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Jane-Grey

[ODO-2] Open Domesday Online: Ansketil de Graye, accessed January 2017

[3] "Gray" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 395.

[4] ttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Jane-Grey

[5] ttps://www.museumofpm.org/prime-ministers/charles-grey-2nd-earl-grey/#:~:text=In%201833%2C%20his%20government%20abolished%20slavery%20in%20the,Factory%20Act%20and%20a%20new%20Poor%20Law%20Act.

[6] ttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Grey-1st-Earl-Grey

[7] ttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Grey-2nd-Earl-Grey

[8] ttps://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/charles-grey-2nd-earl-grey

[opendomesday.org-9] "Ansketil (Of Graye) | Domesday Book".

[10] ttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Grey-1st-Earl-Grey

[11] ttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Grey-1st-Earl-Grey

[Shaw-12] Shaw, Wm. A. (1971). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Knights Bachelors. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 1. OCLC 247620448.

[ODNB-13] Henry Summerson, ‘Grey, John, first Lord Grey of Rotherfield (1300–1359)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11544

[14] ttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Jane-Grey

[15] Kramer, Ione. All the Tea in China. China Books, 1990. ISBN 0-8351-2194-1. Pages 180–181.

[16] Viscount Grey of Fallodon: Twenty-Five Years 1892–1916 (New York, 1925) p. 20 books.google.

[17] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) p. 8.

[18] www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk: Grey of Codnor, B.

[19] www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk: Grey of Wilton, B

[20] www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk: Grey of Ruthin, B

[21] www.nationalarchives.gov.uk: Stamford and Warrington archives

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