Richard de Grey of Rotherfield

• Preferred Name: Richard de Grey of Rotherfield^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Alternate Name: Richard De Grey
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: LH2Y-TL5
  
• LdsBaptism: 21 FEB 1933 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Nickname:
  
• Birth: ABT 1110 in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, England at LATI: N1.5354 LONG: E0.9518 with note: full birthplace GEDCOM data
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Richard-de-Grey/6000000003649677821
  
• LdsSealingToParents: 21 MAY 1974 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: 1130 in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.5355 LONG: E0.9518 with note: from my ANCESTRY.UK research he may have died in 1130
  
• LdsEndowment: 11 APR 1933 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  
  RICHARD de Grey (-after 1109). Blomefield says that Richard de Grey was the son of Anschetil [I] but does not cite the primary source on which he bases this information[491]. The chronology suggests that this parentage may be correct. Henry I King of England confirmed the properties of Eynsham abbey, including the donation of “decimam de Dærneford et de Wideli et de Corneuuella” donated by “Ricardus de Graio” when he sent “unum filium suum in eodem monasterio”, by charter dated 25 Dec 1109[492]. None of the names in the 1129 Pipe Roll for Oxfordshire suggest a connection with the Grey family. m ---. The name of Richard’s wife is not known. Richard & his wife had three or more children:
  
  a) other sons . The existence of two or more other sons is indicated by the charter dated 25 Dec 1109 quoted below.
  
  b) --- de Grey . Monk at Evesham. Henry I King of England confirmed the properties of Eynsham abbey, including the donation of “decimam de Dærneford et de Wideli et de Corneuuella” donated by “Ricardus de Graio” when he sent “unum filium suum in eodem monasterio”, by charter dated 25 Dec 1109[493].
  
  === children ===
  children
  
  === == Biography == ===
  == Biography ==
  Richard Grey (d. after 1110).[https://books.google.com/books?id=VpnC3wgof6gC&dq=john%20lord%20de%20croy&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  
  ===Marriage===m. Mabilia. Issue: 3.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VpnC3wgof6gC&dq=john%20lord%20de%20croy&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q&f=false]* Anschetil.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VpnC3wgof6gC&dq=john%20lord%20de%20croy&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q&f=false]* William.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VpnC3wgof6gC&dq=john%20lord%20de%20croy&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q&f=false]* (son) _____ monk at Eynsham Abbey.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VpnC3wgof6gC&dq=john%20lord%20de%20croy&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  
  ===Religion===* 1110: Eynsham abbey benefactor.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VpnC3wgof6gC&dq=john%20lord%20de%20croy&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  
  === Property===
  ===== Manor of Standlake =====:"The Greys' mesne tenancy descended presumably through [[Grey-524|Anketil]]'s son [[Grey-76|Richard]] to his grandson [[Grey-916|Anketil]] (fl. 1150) and great-grandson [[Grey-518|John]] (d. by 1192), both of whom granted meadows and common rights in Standlake to Eynsham abbey. (fn. 14) [[Grey-518|John]]'s daughter and heir [[Grey-1018|Eve]] married the royal judge [[Murdac-24|Ralph Murdac]], who was lord in 1192 but whose lands were forfeited in 1194 for rebellion. (fn. 15)" A PBaggs, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, C J Day, Nesta Selwyn and S C Townley. "Standlake: Manors," in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13, Bampton Hundred (Part One), ed. Alan Crossley and C R J Currie (London: Victoria County History, 1996), 180-183. British History Online, accessed June 3, 2017, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol13/pp180-183].
  
  ==Sources==
  *Fletcher, W.G.D. (1887). Leicestershire Pedigrees and Royal Descents.Clarke and Hodgson. Google Books.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VpnC3wgof6gC&dq=john%20lord%20de%20croy&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  *Lipscomb, G. (1847). "Pedigree of de Grey of Rotherfield." The history and antiquities of the county of Buckingham, Volume 1. J. & W. Robins. Google Books.[https://books.google.com/books?id=taAgAQAAMAAJ&vq=rollo&pg=PA160#v=onepage&q&f=false]

1. Anschetil de Grey, b. ABT 1131 in Rotherfield Greys Castle, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.     d. ABT 1191 in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, England

1. Title: Standlake: Manors
   Author: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13, Bampton Hundred (Part One)
   Publication: Name: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol13/pp180-183;
   Note: The Greys' mesne tenancy descended presumably through Anketil's son Richard to his grandson Anketil (fl. 1150) and great-grandson John (d. by 1192), both of whom granted meadows and common rights in Standlake to Eynsham abbey. (fn. 14) John's daughter and heir Eve married the royal judge Ralph Murdac, who was lord in 1192 but whose lands were forfeited in 1194 for rebellion. (fn. 15) A claim was evidently made by Guy de Dive, Murdac's great nephew through marriage, who that year confirmed the grants to Eynsham abbey, but the Crown restored the manor to Eve c. 1197, (fn. 16) soon after Murdac's death. In 1200 her second husband Andrew de Beauchamp paid 50 marks for seisin of Murdac's former lands in Northamptonshire, (fn. 17) and in 1214 he received custody of Standlake wood, which by 1230 was attached to the manor. (fn. 18) On Eve's death c. 1246 the manor was divided into four parts, three passing to her daughters Beatrice (relict of Robert Mauduit), Joan (wife of Ernald de Boys), and Alice (wife of Ralph Hareng and formerly of Alan of Buckland), and the fourth to Jolland de Neville, son of her daughter Maud. (fn. 19) It descended in quarters until the 16th century, the Boys, Hareng, and Neville quarters being held apparently of the Mauduit quarter. (fn. 20)
   
2. Title: A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire by Burke, Bernard, Sir, 1814-1892
   Author: page 247
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog#page/n264/mode/2up;
   Note: Note: The eldest father in book is incorrect, it has the father as Henry, this is corruption. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography shows that the father is that of John, usually known as the elder (as he also had a brother named john that was a Bishop of Norwich).
   
3. Title: Plate 8: Rotherfield Greys
   Publication: Name: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol16/plate-8;
   
4. Title: Richard de Grey, Lord of Rotherfield
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Richard-de-Grey/6000000003649677821;
   
5. Title: ROTHERFIELD GREYS from BHO ONLINE
   Author: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16. Originally published by Boydell & Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2011.
   Publication: Name: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol16/pp266-302;
   Note: Rotherfield Greys Manor Descent to 1503 In 1086 Rotherfield Greys was held by Anketil de Grey of the fee of William FitzOsbern (d. 1071), earl of Hereford. (fn. 111) Anketil held eight other Oxfordshire manors, but Rotherfield Greys was his only possession in the south-east, and important because it lay close to the Thames and the road to London. (fn. 112) By 1242 the overlordship was held with the Isle of Wight by Baldwin (II) de Rivers (d. 1245), earl of Devon, passing with the Isle to the Crown in 1293, (fn. 113) and in 1311 the manor was held of the honor of Aumâle, which remained in the king's hands. The overlordship passed with life grants of the Isle to William Montagu (d. 1397), his son John Montagu (d. 1400), and grandson Thomas Montagu (d. 1428), successive earls of Salisbury, (fn. 114) after which no further references have been found. In 1242–3 and later the manor was reckoned at 1 knight's fee, (fn. 115) but in the late 13th and 14th centuries the overlordship of the Isle was usually said to include only half the manor of Rotherfield Greys. The other half, at Badgemore, was held of the honor of Derby, and later of the duchy of Lancaster. (fn. 116) Badgemore lay in the neighbouring parish of Henley, and was held with Rotherfield Greys from c. 1240 to the 15th century. (fn. 117) The mesne tenancy of Rotherfield Greys descended presumably through Anketil's son Richard to his grandson Robert, who held the manor in 1166 and who apparently died childless. (fn. 118) Thereafter the manor passed to Robert's nephew John (d. by 1192), his brother Anketil's son. (fn. 119) John's daughter and heir Eve married the royal judge Ralph Murdac, who was lord in 1192 but whose lands were forfeited in 1194 for rebellion. (fn. 120) Rotherfield Greys was restored to Eve and her second husband, Andrew de Beauchamp, probably before 1200. (fn. 121) Although not without heirs, before 1240 and possibly as early as 1215 Eve gave the manor to her kinsman Walter de Grey, archbishop of York, who settled it on his brother Robert de Grey. (fn. 122) The archbishop nevertheless retained a life interest in the manor and advowson, for which he paid a nominal rent. (fn. 123) On his death in 1255 his heir was his nephew Sir Walter de Grey, son of Robert. (fn. 124) Sir Walter died in 1268 and the manor passed in the direct male line to Sir Robert de Grey (d. 1295), (fn. 125) Sir John (d. 1311), and John, 1st Lord Grey of Rotherfield (d. 1359). (fn. 126) John came of age only in 1321, Edward II meanwhile granting the manor to Thomas Wale for 10 years. (fn. 127) John, 2nd Lord Grey, succeeded in 1359 and died in 1375, leaving as heir his son Bartholomew, who died the same year. The manor then passed to Bartholomew's brother Robert, who died in 1388 and was succeeded by his daughter Joan, an infant. (fn. 128) Joan married Sir John Deincourt, Lord Deincourt, who had livery of the manor in 1401; (fn. 129) he died in 1406 and his widow in 1408, leaving as heir their infant son William (d. 1422). (fn. 130) His heirs were his sisters Alice, who married William Lovel, Lord Lovel (d. 1455), and Margaret, wife of Sir Ralph Cromwell. (fn. 131) The manor remained divided between them until Margaret died in 1454, leaving Alice as heir; (fn. 132) she subsequently married Sir Ralph Butler, later Lord Sudeley, and held Rotherfield Greys until her death in 1474. (fn. 133) Alice's heir was her grandson Francis, Lord Lovel, a minor, whose lands were given in custody to John Beaufitz. (fn. 134) Lovel came of age in 1477 when he had licence to enter on the whole of his inheritance. (fn. 135) He fought for Richard III at Bosworth in 1485, fled and was attainted, and his lands escheated to the Crown. (fn. 136) In the same year Henry VII granted Rotherfield Greys, along with other Oxfordshire manors, to his uncle Jasper, duke of Bedford. (fn. 137) On Jasper's death in 1495 the manor passed back into royal hands, and was held by Thomas Kemys of Henley from 1495 to 1501 and by Thomas Hales of Henley from 1501 to 1503. (fn. 138) Descent from 1503 ¶Rotherfield Greys was granted to Robert Knollys, gentleman usher of the king's chamber, in 1503, and in 1514 Henry VIII settled the manor upon him and his wife Lettice, at an annual rent of a red rose at midsummer. (fn. 139) The grant was renewed and enlarged in 1518. (fn. 140) Robert (d. 1521) and Lettice (d. 1558) were succeeded by their son Francis, reversionary interests granted to the Englefield family in 1524 and 1540 having been surrendered under an agreement of 1545. (fn. 141) Francis Knollys died in 1596, and was succeeded by his second (but eldest surviving) son William, created Baron Knollys of Greys in 1603, Viscount Wallingford in 1616, and earl of Banbury in 1626. (fn. 142) The paternity of two sons born in 1627 and 1631 was disputed, and on Banbury's death (aged about 87) in 1632 the manor passed to his nephew, Robert Knollys, under a licence granted the previous year. (fn. 143) Robert died in 1659 and was succeeded by his son William, MP for Oxfordshire in 1663–4. (fn. 144) Both William (d. 1664) and his son Robert experienced financial difficulties and entered into a number of mortgage agreements, security for which was provided by 1,000-year leases of parts of the estate. (fn. 145) When Robert died in 1679 his heirs were his sisters Katherine, wife of Robert Holdanby, and Lettice, wife of Walter Kennedy; the manor was to be divided between them, subject to clearance of a debt to the Pleydell family, to whom the various mortgages, totalling £7,000, had been assigned. (fn. 146)