Sir Thomas Grey of Heaton, County Durham

County Durham

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 (Alnwick Castle

Alnwick Castle

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, Northumberland

Northumberland

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, 30 November 1384 – North Gate, Southampton

Southampton

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, Hampshire

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, 3/5 August 1415), was an English

England

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 nobleman and plotter.

Family

Born at Alnwick Castle

Alnwick Castle

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, seat of the Percy Earls of Northumberland

Earl of Northumberland

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, he came from an old military family of the North Country.

He was a son of Sir Thomas Grey of Heton, Berwick-upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed

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, Northumberland, of Chillingham

Chillingham, Northumberland

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, Northumberland, and of Berwick

Berwick-upon-Tweed

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, Northumberland

Northumberland

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 (Heton, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, 1359 - 26 November 1400), by wife (married circa 1381) Joan de Mowbray (Axholme, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

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, circa 1363 - after 30 November 1402), daughter of John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray

John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray

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 and Elizabeth de Segrave, 5th Baroness Segrave. He had three brothers and one sister: William Grey, who was Dean of York

York

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, Bishop of London

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 in 1426 and Bishop of Lincoln

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 in 1431; Sir Henry Grey of Ketteringham

Ketteringham

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, Norfolk

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; Matilda or Maud Grey (1382–1451), wife of Sir Robert Ogle (Ogle Castle

Ogle Castle

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, Ogle

Ogle, Northumberland

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, Northumberland, 1379 - 12 August 1435), by whom she had one daughter; and John Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville

John Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville

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. His paternal grandparents were Sir Thomas Grey

Thomas Grey (chronicler)

Sir Thomas Grey of Heton , Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, was an English chronicler.-Family:He was a son of the Sir Thomas de Grey of Heaton , who was taken prisoner by the Scots at Bannockburn, and his wife Agnes Sir Thomas Grey of Heton (near Norham), Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland,...

 and Margaret de Pressene.

Life

What part, if any, he played in the Percy revolt of 1405 is not clear. However, he became a ringleader of the Southampton Plot

Southampton Plot

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 in 1415, which aimed to murder King Henry V

Henry V of England

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 in Southampton

Southampton

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 before he sailed to France

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, and replace him with Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March. However, Mortimer revealed the plot to the King, and the conspirators were promptly arrested and executed by beheading.

Marriage and issue

He married before 1402 Lady Alice Neville, born c. 1384, daughter of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and first wife Margaret de Stafford

Margaret de Stafford

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, by whom he had eight children:

• Elizabeth Grey (c. 1402–1454), married Sir Roger Widdrington
• Sir Thomas Grey (c. 1405–1443), without issue
• Sir Ralph Grey (1406–1443), married Elizabeth FitzHugh, daughter of Sir Henry FitzHugh, 3rd Lord and Elizabeth Grey, and left issue.
• Joan Grey (c. 1408–1488), married Sir John Salvine
• a daughter (born c. 1410), married an Arundell
• William Grey
• Margaret Grey (born c. 1414), married Gerard Widdrington
• John Grey

Sources

• Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage
  Burke's Peerage
  Burke's Peerage publishes authoritative, in-depth historical guides to the royal and titled families of the United Kingdom, such as Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, and of many other countries. Founded in 1826 by British genealogist John Burke Esq., and continued by his son, Sir John...
  
  and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, p. 15.
• Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, pp. 1660–1661.