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Thomas Grey, 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby (1451–1501) (created Marquess of Dorset, 1475), was the son of Sir John Grey of Groby, who was the son of the 6th Baroness and her first husband; Thomas Grey, 8th Baron Ferrers of Groby, 2nd Marquess of Dorset (1472–1530) was summoned to parliament as Baron Ferrers of Groby in 1509; Henry Grey, 9th ...
He was born in 1272 at Yoxall in Staffordshire, the son and heir of William de Ferrers (1240-1287), [2] of Groby in Leicestershire (a significant figure in the Second Barons' War between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester), the younger son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, by his second wife Margaret de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of ...
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby, KG (1455 – 20 September 1501 [1] [2]) was an English nobleman, courtier and the eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville and her first husband Sir John Grey of Groby.
He was the only son of William, Lord Ferrers by his father's first marriage to Margaret Uford, daughter of Robert d'Ufford, Earl of Suffolk and Margaret Norwich. [2] He was born in Tilty Abbey, Essex on 6 February 1356, and baptised in nearby Stebbing [3] Whilst still a minor, in the words of the family's most recent biographer, he "fell prey to the fraudulent schemes of his father's feoffees ...
Elizabeth Ferrers, 6th Baroness Ferrers of Groby Edward Grey, 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby Sir John Grey of Groby , Leicestershire (c. 1432 [ 1 ] – 17 February 1461) was a Lancastrian knight, the first husband of Elizabeth Woodville who later married King Edward IV of England, and great-great-grandfather of Lady Jane Grey .
Ferrers left a bequest that his body be buried in Ulverscroft Priory, Leicestershire. Ferrers had had to take part in the Income tax of 1436, at which his estate was valued at £666. [10] Ferrers' heir, Thomas, was worth £100 on top of this. However, although Thomas was his heir, he was only William's second son. Ferrers' eldest son and ...
William Ferrers was born at the family caput of Newbold Verdon, Leicestershire, on 28 February 1333, and received baptism the same day. Two years after his father's death, an allowance of £50 was remitted by the king and council for his care (later, in 1349, converted into a grant of the manors of Stoke on Tern, Wootton and Hethe). [3]
Henry Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers (c.1303-15 Sep 1343) was the son of William Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby and his wife Ellen. Henry Ferrers has been described by one recent historian as "arguably the most successful member of his family" on account of his being the only one, in six generations, to have succeeded to his patrimony as an ...