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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Marquess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
On 13 October 1386, the patent of this marquessate was recalled, and Robert de Vere was raised to Duke of Ireland.
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, the second legitimate son of John of Gaunt, was raised to the second marquessate as Marquess of Dorset in September 1397.
Marquess of Bristol is a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom.
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 Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent (1671–1740), was a British courtier and one of the Lords Justice appointed during the absence, in Germany, of George I.
He was created Marquess of Kent, Earl of Harold and Viscount Goderich in 1706, Duke of Kent in 1710, and made a Knight of the Garter in 1712.
Left without a male heir after the death of his son George, Earl of Harold, in 1733, he was created Marquess Grey in 1740, with a special remainder to his grand-daughter Lady Jemima Campbell and her heirs male.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury (October 23, 1861 - April 4, 1947) was the eldest son and heir of the Victorian statesman Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.
Marquess of Ripon was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Marquesses in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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 Earl de Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The titles of Marquess Grey and Earl de Grey were created in the peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom respectively for descendants of the Greys, Earls of Kent, who were unrelated to the family of the Earls Grey.
Henry Grey, 12th Earl, 1st Marquess and 1st Duke of Kent was created Marquess Grey in 1740.
The 2nd Earl of Ripon and 3rd Earl de Grey was created Marquess of Ripon in 1871, and was succeeded in 1909 by his son Frederick, who became 4th Earl de Grey, 3rd Earl of Ripon, 2nd Marquess of Ripon, 3rd Viscount Goderich, and 5th Baron Grantham.
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 Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk Encyclopedia Article @ GreatArtworks.com (Great Artworks)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The son of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset and of Margaret Wotton, he became the 3rd Marquess of Dorset in 1530 after his father died.
A knight of the Bath, he was the king's sword bearer at Anne Boleyn's coronation in 1533, at Anne of Cleves' arrival in 1540, and at the capture of Boulogne in 1545.
Mary had Henry Grey beheaded on February 23, 1554, after his conviction of treason for his part in Sir Thomas Wyatt's attempt (January – February 1554) to overthrow her after she announced her intention to marry King Philip II of Spain.
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 Lady Jane Grey biography
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.
As for Jane Grey, she and her unwelcome husband Guildford were sent to the Tower.
Grey tried to raise the Midlands in revolt, but he also was swiftly captured.
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 Lady Jane Grey - LoveToKnow 1911
LADY JANE GREY (1537-1554), a lady remarkable no less for her accomplishments than for her misfortunes, was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII.
Of this marriage came two daughters, the elder of whom, Lady Frances Brandon, was married to Henry Grey, marquess of Dorset; and their issue, again, consisted of daughters only.
Lord Seymour, however, was attainted of high treason and beheaded in 1549, and his brother, the duke of Somerset, made some overtures to the marquess of Dorset to marry her to his son the earl of Hertford.
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 marquess - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about marquess
The wife of a marquess is a marchioness.
The first English marquess was created in 1385, but the lords of the Scottish and Welsh Marches were known as marchiones before this date.
In honour of the Marquess de Mendoza, then viceroy of Peru--under whose auspices the navigator sailed--he bestowed upon them the name which denoted the rank of his patron, and gave to the world on his return a vague and magnificent account of their beauty.
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Grey was for Eton, but his lady was one of those women whom nothing in the world can persuade that a public school is anything else but a place where boys are roasted alive; and so with tears, and taunts, and supplications, the point of private education was conceded.
Grey; and the man of science and the African had already retired to the intellectual idiocy of a May Fair "At Home." The novelist was silent, for he was studying a scene; and the poet was absent, for he was musing a sonnet.
Grey's, as the Marquess of Carabas was sitting in his library, and sighing, in the fulness of his ennui, as he looked on his large library table, once triply covered with official communications, now thinly besprinkled with a stray parliamentary paper or two, his steward's accounts, and a few letters from some grumbling tenants, Mr.
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 Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset KG (1457–September 20, 1501), known as Lord Ferrers de Groby between 1461 and 1471, and the Earl of Huntingdon between 1471 and 1475, was the eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville and consequently a stepson of Edward IV of England.
He was created Earl of Huntingdon in 1471 but resigned this peerage in 1475, when he was created Marquess of Dorset.
After she died young without issue he married Cecily Bonville, Baroness Harington and Bonville, a niece of Richard Neville Earl of Warwick and stepdaughter of William Hastings, Edward IV's close associate.
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 Grey
THOMAS GREY, K.G., Lord Ferrers of Groby, Earl of Huntingdon, Marquess of Dorset, Constable of the Tower of London, died on 30 August 1501.
SIR JOHN GREY, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby, was born in 1435 and 8lain in Battle of St. Albans (War of the Roses) on the Lancastrian side on 17 February 1460.
SIR JOHN de GREY of Ruthin, Wilton-on-the-Wye, Lord Grey of Wilton, Justice of North Wales, Governor of the Castle of Caernarvon, died in 1323.
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 Lady Jane Grey
Jane Grey, the daughter of Henry Grey, the Marquess of Dorset, was born in 1537.
During the final illness of Edward VI, Jane Grey was married to Guildford Dudley, fourth son of
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.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUDgreyL.htm   (262 words)

  
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Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and his wife Lady Frances Brandon, painted by Hans Eworth.Henry Grey, 1st duke of Suffolk, 3rd marquess of Dorset and baron Ferrers of Groby, Harrington, Bonville and Astley (c.1515 — February 23, 1554) was an English nobleman of the Tudor period and the father of Lady Jane Grey.
Lady Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford, was the second daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Lady Frances Brandon.
She was a younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and an older sister of Lady Mary Grey.
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 About Jane GREY (Queen of England)
Lady Jane's father was Henry Grey, third Marquess of Dorset, the son of Thomas Grey, second Marquess of Dorset.
By that time Frances and Henry Grey had been married two years and she had borne him a son who died a few months later; a daughter followed, who also died.
Hir parentes, the Duke and Duches, with all the houshould, Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, were huntinge in the Parke: I founde her, in her Chamber, readinge Phadon Platonis in Greeke, and that with as moch delite, as som ientleman wold read a merie tale in Bocase.
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 ipedia.com: Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset was the eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville and consequently a stepson of Edward IV of England.
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (1451 - September 20, 1501) was the eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville and consequently a stepson of Edward IV of England.
He was created Marquess of Dorset on April 18, 1475 and summoned to Parliament on November 15, 1482.
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 Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Edward Grey 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (April 25 1862 - September 7 1933) better known as Sir Edward Grey was a British politician and ornithologist.
A relation of the Prime Minister Earl Grey of Reform Bill fame Grey grew up in the Whiggish tradition and was elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1885.
Raised to the Lords as Viscount Grey Fallodon Grey continued to be active in serving as Liberal Leader in the Lords 1923 - 1924 despite his increasingly poor eyesight.
www.freeglossary.com /Edward_Grey%2C_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon   (535 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Grey, Lady Jane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Grey, Lady Jane GREY, LADY JANE [Grey, Lady Jane] 1537-54, queen of England for nine days.
Suffolk, Henry Grey, duke of SUFFOLK, HENRY GREY, DUKE OF [Suffolk, Henry Grey, duke of] d.
He became 3d marquess of Dorset on his father's death (1530), and in 1534 he married Frances, daughter of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, and Mary of England (sister of Henry VIII).
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg17 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Jane GREY Lady was born Sep 1537 and died 12 Feb 1554.
Katherine GREY Countess was born Aug 1540 and died 26 Jan 1567.
Mary GREY Lady Sidney was born 1545 and died 1578.
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 Edward grey 1st viscount grey of fallodon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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 Grey, Lady Jane - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
GREY, LADY JANE [Grey, Lady Jane] 1537-54, queen of England for nine days.
She was the daughter of Henry Grey, marquess of Dorset (later duke of Suffolk), and Frances Brandon, daughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary.
Portrait thought to be first of Lady Jane Grey.
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 Henry GREY (1° D. Suffolk)
Frances was the daughter of Mary Tudor, youngest sister of Henry VIII, and this alliance brought Henry Grey into the royal household; they were married in the chapel of his London house in Southwark.
This lady's ancestry combined royal and middle-class blood and, from her husband's point of view, her kinship with the King was of incalculable value; its results were to prove fatal to every member of the family but herself.
The third party, which was beginning to form when Jane Grey was born and was not described as Protestant till her tenth year, became effective as she grew up.
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 Henry_Grey,_1st_Duke_of_Suffolk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
'''Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk''', 3rd Marquess of Dorset and Baron Ferrers of Groby, Harrington, Bonville and Astley (c.
1515 – February 23, 1554) was an English nobleman of the Tudor period and the father of Lady Jane Grey.
Image:1 Duke Suffolk coa.pngthumbright125pxArms of Henry Grey, 1st duke of Suffolk and 3rd marquess of Dorset.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter
Married, firstly, Catherine daughter of Thomas, 1st Marquess of Dorset, K.G., aunt of Lady Jane Grey.
Father of Lady Jane Grey; and having proclaimed her Queen after the death of Edward VI, was attainted.
Powerful supporter of the royalist cause, and known as "the Loyal Earl." His wife, Charlotte de la Trémouille, is famous for her heroic defence of Lathom House.
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 Wikinfo | Elizabeth Woodville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In about 1452, she married Sir John Grey, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby, who was killed at the second Battle of St Albans in 1461, fighting for the Lancastrian cause.
That was nothing compared to the marriages the queen arranged for her family, the most outrageous being when her 20-year-old brother John Woodville married the dowager Duchess of Norfolk, widowed three times and nearly 80 but very, very wealthy.
The former Queen Elizabeth Woodville, now simply Dame Elizabeth Grey again, died on June 8, at Bermondsey in London and was buried in the same chantry as her husband King Edward in St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.
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 Lady Jane Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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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 To Prove a Villain -- The Real Richard III
She married, first, about 1452, Sir John Grey, son and heir of Lord Ferrers, and became one of the four ladies of the bedchamber to Margaret of Anjou.
Accompanied by Earl Rivers and Sir Richard Grey (respectively brother and son of the Queen) the new King Edward V was intercepted by the Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham at Stony Stratford and the two Woodvilles were arrested.
Sir Richard Grey was the younger son of Elizabeth Woodville by her first marriage to Sir John Grey.
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 Definition of earl grey tea
He was the fourth son of Sir Henry Grey, Bt., of Howick in Northumberland.
His eldest son, [[Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby]] was member of parliament for Leicester...
Ralph Francis Alnwick Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton
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 Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter
Originally appointed in 1543, he was degraded from the Order in 1553 as a supporter of Lady Jane Grey's cause, but re-elected in 1559.
Reign of Edward VI 1547 (318) Henry (Grey), 3rd Marquess of Dorset.
Daughter of Thomas (Holland), 2nd Earl of Kent, K.G. Married 1st John (Beaufort), Marquess of Dorset, K.G.; 2ndly Thomas (Plantagenet), Duke of Clarence, K.G. 1399 Joan, Countess of Westmorland.
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