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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Sir Robert de Grey of Rotherfield & Joan Bellew

3802838. Sir Robert de Grey & 3802839. Joan Bellew.

1349, Robert born in England, s/o 7605676. John de Grey & 7605677. Maud ?.

1362, Robert’s mother died.

~1365, Joan born in England, d/o §§John de Bellew.

6/4/1375, Robert’s father died, his brother Bartholomew the heir.

10/1375, Robert heir to his brother Bartholomew.

12/1375, IPM of Bartholomew de Grey of Rutherfeld, knight. Oxford: … He died on Sunday the feast of St. Martin last. Robert Grey, his brother, aged 26 years and more, is his heir. (S) CIsPM.

7/4/1376, Robert de Grey, son and heir of John de Grey of Rotherfeld knight, to John de Hermethorp parson of Bedale. Recognisance for £100, to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in Yorkshire. (S) CCRs.

6/21/1377, Richard II, age 10, son of the Black Prince, succeeded Edward III as King of England.

3/20/1378, Robert Grey of Rotherfield to settle half the manor of Rotherfield, with the advowson of its church, and reversions of the manors of Cogges and Hardwick, half the manor of Fringford and half the advowson of its church, now held in dower by Avice late the wife of Sir John Grey, Robert's grandfather, and of half the manor of Somerton and half the advowson of its church, now held in dower by Matilda late the wife of John Grey, knight, Robert's father, on himself, Joan his wife, and the heirs of his body, with remainder to his own right heirs. Oxford. (S) UKNA.

3/1/1379, Robert de Grey of Retherfeld knight to Philippa countess of March. Recognisance for 2,000 marks, to be levied etc. in Oxfordshire. (S) CCRs.

1380, Robert [wife Joan] heir to the other half of Fringford from his step-grandmother Avice who held it in dower.

~1386, Joan died. [Likely in the birth of Joan.]

[––Robert––]

Robert married 2nd Elizabeth, widow of John de Birmingham. [Elizabeth assigned dower rights on the manor of Cogges on the death of Robert. Elizabeth soon after married Lord John de Clinton who died in 1398.] (S) Cogges: Manors, A History of the Co. of Oxford, V12, 1990.

1/12/1388, Robert, Baron Grey of Rotherfield, and of Northamptonshire, Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and Norfolk, died. (S) Brass in Rotherfield Greys Church. (S) UKNA, IPM. [The Barony became dormant.]

1/16/1388, IPM for Robert Grey of Retherfeld. Northampton: John Grey of Retherfeld was seised in fee of the under-mentioned manor, and granted it to … The said grantees then granted it to the said John and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to his right heirs, with the king’s licence. John had 3 sons by Maud, then his wife, to wit, Bartholomew de Grey, the elder, Robert de Grey and Richard de Grey, and died seised of the manor, which, together with other lands &c., was assigned after his death to the said Maud as her dower of all his lands &c. in the counties of Oxford and York. Bartholomew died without heir of his body during Maud’s lifetime, and Maud died seised of such estate in the manor on 23 January, 10 Richard II. After her death the said Robert, named in the writ, entered into the manor as son and heir male of the said John, and continued his estate therein all his life. Duston. The manor, … The said Robert died on 12 January, 11 Richard II, without heir male of his body. The aforesaid Richard de Grey, aged 26 years and more, is son and heir male of the said John and brother and heir male of the said Robert. … Joan, his daughter by the said Joan, aged 2 years on the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist last, is his heir. Robert held the manor of Duston in his demesne as of fee, and not in fee tail. … York: Bedale. A moiety of the manor. … Kilwardby. The manor. … Drynghous. The manor, … Stylyngflete. The manor, … Upton. The manor, … Joan his daughter, aged 2 years and more, is his heir. Oxford: … Retherfeld. The manor, … Cogges. The manor, … Herdewyk. The manor, … Richard de Grey, aged 26 years and more, son and heir male of the said John, is brother and heir of the said Robert to the above-mentioned manors of Retherfeld and Cogges. Joan daughter of the said Robert, aged 1 year on the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist last, is his next heir. [After further inquisition Joan was found to be the heir.] … Warwick: Arley. The advowson of the church … Norfolk: Sydesterne. The advowson of the church. (S) CIsPM.

(S) The Castles of England, Mackenzie, 1896, P155.  (S) A Gen. and Heraldic Dic. of the Peerages of England, Burke, 1831, P168. (S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P630.

Family notes:

·         6/15/1408, Indenture of covenants of Vicars choral of Collegiate Church of St. Mary of Suthwell, to find a vicar chaplain to say a daily mass for souls of John, Lord Deyncourt and wife Johanna (1901419), for salvation of Alice, Lady Deyncourt while alive and for soul after, for souls of John de Bellew and Hugh de Anneslay; … lands formerly belonging to Bellew were wrongly said to be held of the King in capite, being merely in his custody for minority of Lord Deyncourt. (S) UKNA.

Child of Robert and Joan:

i. Joan Grey (1901419), born 7/1386 in Oxford, England. [Heir]


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