Peter Gresley

• Preferred Name: Peter Gresley^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Peter de Gresley
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: 1273 in Derbyshire, England at LATI: N3.1105 LONG: E1.6205
  
• Other: liv. 1290 in of Drakelowe, Derby, Eng. at LATI: N2.7667 LONG: E1.6333
  
• Other: liv 1290 in Gresley, Stafford, Eng. at LATI: N2.7654 LONG: E1.5669
  
• Burial: in Church Gresley, Derbyshire, England at LATI: N2.7654 LONG: E1.5676 with note: standardization
  
• Death: 1310 in Derbyshire, England at LATI: N3.1105 LONG: E1.6205
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Earl of Derby
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir Knight
  
• FSID: 2S35-XS2
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  His estates were large, for in 1309 he obtained by royal Chap. hi.
  charter u the right of free warren in Norton in Leicestershire ; * Gresi.
  Gresley, Lullington, Linton, Donisthorpe, Heathcote, Swad- charter Ron-
  lincote, Drakelowe and Caldwell in Derbyshire; Morton, 1308-9, p. 142.
  Kingston and Hixon in Staffordshire ; and Toft in Norfolk.
  The manor of Eggington in Derbyshire also came to him
  through his wife.
  
  His seal is apparently not known to exist, but there is
  a coloured full-length portrait T of him, probably drawn for v Brit. Mus.
  King Henry vi, which represents 'Sir Peres de Greyle' 4205, foi. 112.
  in complete armour with visor up, with banner in his right
  hand and sword in his left: both banner and surcoat bear
  the arms vaire ermine and gules.
  
  He married Johanna, daughter and co-heiress of Sir
  Robert de Stafford and a lineal descendant of the Toenis.
  Very shortly after her husband's death, she was forcibly
  abducted w from her manor of Drakelowe, which had been w For the
  assigned to her by her eldest son, knd carried off to Swin- see Salt Soc.
  nerton by Sir John de Swinnerton^ and others.
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.47;
  
  === He is mentioned from 1290 to 1310 but r ===
  He is mentioned from 1290 to 1310 but rarely except for fig hting or worse. He was knighted in London by the Prince o f Wales in 1307 probably on Whitsun Sunday, 14 May at Westm inster with about 300 more, and all went at once on a campa ign to Scotland. his estates were large.
  
  === Source: Drakelowe. "Sir Peter has the le ===
  Source: Drakelowe. "Sir Peter has the least satisfactory record of all the heads of thehouse of Gresley. In the qualities which make a good soldier he resembled his father, but he inherited also a strain of roughness and violence whichwas transmitted to his sons in a still more marked degree." He often wascited for violent acts or for causing damage, and in 1309 he was fined for "many defaults." He campaigned in Scotland and was knighted in 1307, but hemust have died in the prime of life, about 1309-12. First mention of him wasin 1290.

1. Title: Collections for a History of Walsall, Visitation of Staffordshire A.D. 1583
   Author: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah - Book 942.46 B4SC Vol 3 pgs 86-87
   Note: p 86 Monsr Peris (Peris) sic de Greseley (Greseley) et Johane sa femme, fille a Monsr Rob't de Stafford Sr de Eginton et Moginton.Com. Derby. (parents) Geffrey de Greaseley et Agnes sa femme. p 87 Petrus de Greseley (Greseley).miles and Johanna, filia D'ni Rob'ti Stafford, D'ni de Eginton et Meginton in Com. Derby
   Page: It provides his name, spouse's name, her father's name, his parents and their localities.