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  Lady Mary Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lady Mary Grey (1545–April 20, 1578), sometimes spelled Marie, was the third and last daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Lady Frances Brandon.
Mary was the daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York and a younger sister of Henry VIII of England.
Mary Grey was described as "four foot tall and hunchbacked" (1,22 metres).
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 Lady Catherine Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lady Catherine Grey (sometimes spelled "Katherine") (~1539 – January 1568), Countess of Hertford, was the second surviving daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Lady Frances Brandon.
She was the younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and older sister of Lady Mary Grey.
Jane Grey was the designated heir of Edward VI of England, son of Henry VIII by his third Queen consort Jane Seymour.
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Lady Frances Brandon was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor, former queen consort of France.
Mary was opposed to the annulment of the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine in 1533.
Mary served the courts of her cousins Mary I of England and Elizabeth I of England as a maid of honor.
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 Lady Jane Grey
Jane was born in October 1537, the eldest daughter of Henry Grey, Marquess of Dorset[?].
Her claim to the throne was through her mother, Frances Brandon who was the daughter of Mary Tudor, a daughter of King Henry VII of England, and her second husband, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.
Mary proved to have more popular support than Jane, partly because of the continuing sympathy for the treatment her mother, Catherine of Aragon, had received at the hands of Henry VIII.
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 Lady Jane Grey: Lady Mary Grey
Born in 1545, Mary, the youngest of the Grey sisters, was nine years old when she lost her father and sister.
Mary spent the rest of her life under house arrest while Thomas was sent to Fleet Prison.
Mary was released from private custody and went, destitute, to live with her step-father, Adrian Stokes.
www.britannia.com /history/ladyjane/marygrey.html   (192 words)

  
 Lady Jane Grey - meaning of word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lady Jane Grey (October 12?, 1537–February 12, 1554), was a great granddaughter of Henry VII of England, and was proclaimed Monarch of England for several days in 1553.
Jane was an older sister of Lady Catherine Grey and Lady Mary Grey.
The rebellion was precipitated by the imminent marriage of Mary to Philip II of Spain.
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 ::Lady Jane Grey::
Lady Jane Grey was born in October 1537 and died in February 1554.
Lady Jane is most remembered as the "Nine Day Queen" before Mary Tudor was confirmed as queen in 1553 after the death of her half-brother Edward VI.
Jane’s father was Henry Grey, who was to become the Duke of Suffolk, and her mother was Lady Frances Brandon, who was the daughter of Henry VIII’s sister Mary and the great grand-daughter of Henry VII.
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 Lady Jane Grey: Biography, Portraits, Primary Sources
She informed the Greys that Edward VI was dying and Jane had been made heir to his throne; she must hold herself in readiness (in other words, come to the Dudley home.) Jane later said this was the first she knew of the king's impending death.
Mary was in the midst of arranging her marriage to Philip of Spain, the son and heir of Charles V. It was the culmination of a decades-old dream.
Mary assumed all of England wanted to return to the early 1520s, the years before Henry VIII had decided to abandon her beloved mother and break with the church of Rome.
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 Lady Jane Grey
It took a hefty measure of gall to put forward Jane Grey as the future queen of England, since her claim to the title was extremely weak.
But Mary was warned of his plans, and barely escaped the men sent to imprison her.
Mary realized that as long as Jane lived she would continue be a focus for rebellion, so on February 7, 1554 she reluctantly signed Jane's death warrant.
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 Lady Jane Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
She was the polar opposite of Mary in religion being as devout a Protestant as Mary a Catholic.
On the state visit of Mary of Guise, regent of Scotland, Mary heard Jane was to attend court and sent her a dress of gold and velvet with parchment lace of gold.
Mary was adamant that she would not execute Jane because she believed that Jane as a pawn of Northumberland.
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 Tudor Herstory: Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk and great-neice of Henry VIII, was born in October of 1537 only shortly after her cousin Edward VI.
He sent a letter to Mary after the death of her brother stating that the King (implying he was still alive) wished to see her.
Jane Grey went down in history as the Nine Day Queen, a poor girl used and victimized as a result of the ambitions of her parents and in-laws.
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 Lady Jane Grey: Marriage
In the same ceremony, Jane's sister, Lady Katherine, was married to Lord Herbert, son of the Earl of Pembroke, and Northumberland's daughter, Katherine, to Lord Hastings.
Jane's younger sister, Lady Mary Grey, was betrothed to her cousin, Lord Arthur Grey.
Frances Grey was summoned to the king's bedside where she formally asceded the throne to her daughter, Jane.
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 Telegraph | News | Mary, Dowager Lady Howick of Glendale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Mary, Dowager Lady Howick of Glendale, who has died aged 95, was said to have turned down 28 offers of marriage before accepting the proposal of Evelyn Baring - a match which would set her beside the last great pro-consul of the British Empire.
She was born Lady Mary Cecil Grey at Howick, in Northumberland, on May 5 1907, the elder daughter of the 5th Earl Grey.
After his marriage, Lady Grey immediately addressed herself to the problem of his health, packing her new son-in-law off to a doctor in Bristol who prescribed the most drastic treatment.
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 Mary GREY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In a later age Jane would have been described as the clever sister; Catherine as the pretty, frivolous one; and Mary as that poor little creature for whom nothing could be done: for she was a dwarf, and very ugly.
Mary was removed to Chequers, in Buckinghamshire, under the custody of William Hawtrey, Esq.
Mary was released from private custody of Sir Thomas Gresham, and went, destitute, to live with her step-father,
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 Heroines - Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane went to reside with the widowed Queen, Katherine Parr, at Chelsea; and when that lady married Lord Seymour of Dudley, she accompanied them to Hanworth, in Middle-sex, a palace which Henry VIII.
On one occasion the Princess Mary presented her with a sumptuous robe, which she was desired to wear in recognition of the donor's generosity.
Lady Jane was at first confined in the house of one Partridge, a warder of the Tower.
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 My Family
Henry GREY (Duke of Suffolk) died in 1554.
Jane GREY (Queen of England), Catherine GREY (Lady), Mary GREY (Lady).
Jane GREY (Queen of England) was born in Oct 1537 in Bradgate, Leicestershire.
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 Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey is a famous sidelight to British royal history.
At age 15 she was married to Lord Guilford Dudley as part of a plot to control the English throne after the death of her cousin, the boy king Edward VI (son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour).
Lady Jane Grey was succeeded by Queen Mary (daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon) and then by Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn).
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 Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey, a lady remarkable no less for her accomplishments than for her misfortunes, was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII of England.
His second daughter Mary, after being left a widow by Louis XII of France, married Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, who was a favorite with her brother Henry VIII.
Besides, both Mary and her sister Elizabeth had been declared illegitimate by separate acts of parliament, and the objections to Mary Queen of Scots did not require to be pointed out.
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 Royalty.nu - Lady Jane Grey - Queen for Nine Days
Lady Jane Grey was born in 1537, just two days before King Edward VI, and may have been his friend in childhood.
Although Mary was hurt, she later sent Jane a pretty velvet dress to wear to court.
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Lady Jane was regarded as a martyr because she had died for the Protestant faith.
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 Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey is known for her brief reign as Queen of England during the mid-16th century.
Mary, however, was a staunch Catholic, and hoped to bring England back to the Roman Catholic faith once she became Queen.
Lady Jane showed great courage on the scaffold, and will be long remembered for her dignity and strength of character in the face of adversity.
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 Lady Jane Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554) was proclaimed queen of England for a period of nine days after the death of Edward VI.
Jane then resigned her claim in favor of Mary I. Jane was the granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary.
Jane was imprisoned in the Tower after Mary came to the throne, and executed in the wake of the rebellion led by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger.
www.newberry.org /elizabeth/exhibit/bios/ladyjanegrey.html   (92 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire and others
     Lady Catherine Grey was born in August 1540 in Dorset House, Westminster, London, England.
She was the daughter of Sir Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Lady Frances Brandon.
He married Lady Catherine Grey, daughter of Sir Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Lady Frances Brandon, circa November 1560 in Hertford House, Cannon Row, Westminster, London, England.
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 Lady Jane Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lady Jane Grey was born in October 1537.
Sadly, Lady Jane was only queen of England for nine days in 1553--the shortest reign in England's history, and Mary Tudor soon secured the throne as Mary I. Jane and Guilford were charged with treason and beheaded February 12, 1554.
Her last words were "into your hands I commend my spirit." Widely praised for her beauty and learning, Jane was not herself a conspirator but rather an innocent victim of a political and religious plot.
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 Lady Jane Grey
Grey, Lady Jane, 1537–54, queen of England for nine days.
Lady Jane, her husband, and her father were beheaded.
Mary of England - Mary of England (Mary Tudor), 1496–1533, queen consort of Louis XII of France, daughter of...
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 Selected Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary, who was forty-seven at this time, did go to the continent, did not manage to settle down with Algarotti or any other lover that we know of, and lived in France and Italy for twenty years without seeing her husband in all this time.
Lady Mary's daughter had meanwhile married Lord Bute, who became George III's right hand man. It was important to Mary, Countess of Bute, to maintain the utmost propriety in eyes of the world, and the most probable source of any possible embarrassment was her mother.
Lady Mary wrote a history of her times, and this could have made trouble, but as she assured her daughter, each chapter was destroyed as soon as it was written.
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 BBC - h2g2 - Lady Jane Grey
Born in 1537 at her family home in Bradgate, Jane was the eldest daughter of Frances Brandon, whose mother was Henry VIII's sister Mary, and the Marquess of Suffolk, Henry Grey.
Although her claim was recognised by the Council, within nine days Mary's supporters seized control and placed her on the throne.
As Catherine of Aragon's daughter, Jane herself had recognised that Mary's claim was much stronger than hers, stating when she was told of her impending coronation "the crown is not my right and pleaseth me not.
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 Lady Jane Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lady Jane Grey married Lord Guilford Dudley on May 21, 1553, when she was only sixteen.
When brought before the Council and informed that she was to succeed Edward VI on the Throne of England, she fainted and had to be carried from the Chamber.
She was the great granddaughter of Henry VII of England, and daughter of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk.
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Or, you may leave any comments, suggestions, questions, and/or critiques at the Lady Jane's guestbook, the link for her guestbook is at the bottom of each page also.
The image above is that of Lady Jane, John Dudley and the members of The Privy Council, when Lady Jane was being offered the Crown of England in the Tower of London, where later she would become imprisioned and then beheaded.
Read Lady Jane's bio and find out why Mary ended up being Queen of England and through fear of loosing her throne, declared the trio had committed treason, and had Lady Jane, her husband Guildford Dudley, and Lady Jane's father in law, John Dudley, beheaded.
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 Lady Jane Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In the 14th Century the manor of Lutterworth passed to another of Leicestershire's great landowning dynasties, the Ferrers of Groby, and thence by marriage to the Grey family.
Sir John Grey was killed leading a Lancastrian charge at the second Battle of St Albans in 1461, leaving a widow and two young sons.
Elizabeth's eldest son by her first marriage, Thomas Grey, was created Marquess of Dorset in 1475.
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 Jane Grey
The true tragedy of Jane Grey is that her death was through no fault of her own, but of the unfortunate fact of her heritage and of her religion.
Her ambitious parents (Frances Brandon and Henry Grey), along with John Dudley, father of her husband, Guilford Dudley, sought to keep a Protestant monarch on the throne if Edward were to die without an heir of his body and to have that monarch under their thumbs.
However, Mary, who was the rightful heir to the throne according to Henry VIII's will, was gathering support in Suffolk.
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 Lady Jane Grey
Jane Grey, the daughter of Henry Grey, the Marquess of Dorset, was born in 1537.
However, she was forced to abdicate nine days later in favour of Edward's sister, Mary Tudor and was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
As a result Lady Jane Grey and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were executed.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUDgreyL.htm   (262 words)

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