John GREY, Of Wark-On-Tweed, Kg, Sir^[1]

Aft 1384 - 1421  (~ 36 years)

• Name	John GREY  [2, 3, 4]
  Suffix	Of Wark-On-Tweed, Kg, Sir
  Birth	Aft 1384	Heaton Castle, Wark-On-Tweed, Northumberland, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	3EF52F6C053E4EC3B31899CE062A47D6A1EC
  Death	22 Mar 1420-1421	Battle Of Bauge, Anjou, France (Killed)   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I13342	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Thomas GREY, Of Heton & Wark, Sir,   b. Abt 1359, Heaton Castle, Wark-On-Tweed, Northumberland, England d. Abt 30 Nov 1400 (Age ~ 41 years)
  Mother	Joan (Jane) De MOWBRAY,   b. Abt 1368, Epworth, Isle Of Axholme, Lincolnshire, England d. Aft 30 Nov 1402 (Age ~ 34 years)
  Marriage	1st Husband   [5]
  Family ID	F6862	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan CHERLETON,   b. Abt 1400, Upper Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales d. 17 Sep 1425 (Age ~ 25 years)
  Children	1. Henry GREY, Of Powis, Count Of Tankarville,   b. Abt 1419, Heaton Castle, Wark-On-Tweed, Northumberland, England d. 13 Jan 1449-1450, Powis, Montgomeryshire, Wales (Age ~ 31 years)
  Family ID	F6778	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  SIR JOHN GRAY or GREY, younger son of Sir Thomas GRAY, of Heton and Wark-on-Tweed, Northumberland (who d. 26 November or 3 December 1400) (c), by Joan, his wife (who was living 30 November 1402). He was born after 1384. On 29 June 1404 he and Richard de Ledes, who had challenged two Scots to six courses on horseback , with lances, had licence to fulfil their challenges at Carlisle before the King's brother, Ralph, Earl of Westmorland, or before John, son of that Earl. On 14 August 1409 he was granted, for his good services to the King and the Prince of Wales, 40 marks a year, for life, from the issues of Northumberland. On 8 August 1415 the King granted him all the lands held in fee simple which his eldest brother, Thomas Grey of Heton chr., deceased, had forfeited, and the keeping of the lands which the said Thomas had held in fee tail. He fought at the battle of Agincourt, 25 October 1415. He accompanied the King to France in July 1417. On 31 October 1417 he was appointed Captain of the castle and town of Mortagne, during pleasure. On 24 November following the King gave him the castle and lordship of Tilly in Normandy, late of Philip Harecourt chr., to hold in tail male. Nominated K.G. about 1418/9. On 31 January 1418/9 he was granted the comte' of Tancarville, in tail male, to hold by homage, rendering yearly a basinet at the castle of Rouen. He married Joan, elder daughter and coheir of Sir Edward CHERLETON, of POWiS, co. Montgomery (LORD CHERLETON], by his 1st wife, Alianore, sister and coheir of Edmund, EARL OF KENT, and eldest daughter of Thomas (DE HOLAND), EARL OF KENT. He was killed at the battle of Baugé in Anjou, 22 March 1420/1. On 20 July 1422 his widow had ivery of her purparty of her father's lands. She died 17 September 1425. [Complete Peerage VI:136-8, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] (c) He d. Thursday before, or Tuesday after, St. Andrew 2 Henry IV, according to the inquisitions taken in Northumberland and at Newcastle-on-Tyne, respectively. In 1398 he obtained the castle, manor, and lordship of Wark-on-Tweed from Ralph, Earl of Westmorland, in exchange for other manors. He, who was aged 10 in 1369, was son and heir of Sir Thomas Grey, of Heton (author of the "Scalacronica"), by Margaret, daughter and heir of William de Pressene, of Presson, Northumberland. The last-named Thomas, who d. shortly bef. Monday after St. Luke (22 Oct] 1369, had done homage to the Bishop of Durham, and had livery of the manor of Heton 10 Apr 1344. He was son and heir of Sir Thomas de Grey, of Heton in Islandshire, who d. shortly bef. 12 Mar 1343/4, by Agnes, his wife. --------------------------- Joan Cherleton; m. Sir John Grey (or Gray), KG, created Earl of Tankerville in Normandy, b. aft. 1384, d. 22 Mar 1420/1, son of Sir Thomas Gray, d. 1400, of Heton & Wark-on-Tweed, co. Northumberland, by his wife Joan. [Ancestral Roots] ---------------------------- The following post to SGM, 17 May 2003, by Adrian Channing, explains where Heaton Castle was: From: ADRIANCHANNING@aol.com (ADRIANCHANNING@aol.com) Subject: Re: Grays of Heton, Northumberland Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval Date: 2003-05-17 05:12:15 PST There are two Warks in Northumberland (in addition to Warkworth), both had castles. Heaton Castle was a few miles north east of Wark on Tweed, and a little SE of Twisel. In 1415 it belonged to Sir Thomas Gray (one tower was a large carving of a lion rampant, the emblem of the Hetons and the Greys). The site is now a farmstead. Heton/Heaton is said to be ghosted. Close by is the ruins of Etal Castle. As for the Castle of Wark upon Tweed, I beleive I have preveiously posted details and should be in the archives. Cornhill (which, in 1541 had a tower) is between Heton and this Wark. The other Wark is on the Tyne. Adrian

  
  

• Sources

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