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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JOHN DE GREY, Knt., 3rd Lord Grey of Codnor, of Codnor, Derbyshire, Tunworth and Upton Grey, Hampshire, Aylesford and Hoo, Kent, Barton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, etc., son and heir, born about 1305/11 (aged variously 24, 27, 28, or 30 in 1335). He married (1st) before 4 Sept. 1325 ELEANOR DE COURTENAY, daughter of Hugh de Courtenay, Knt., 9th Earl of Devon, 1st Lord Courtenay, by Agnes, daughter of John de Saint John, Knt. [see COURTENAY 6 for her ancestry]. He and his wife, Eleanor, presented to the church of High Halstow, Kent 12 July 1326. He married (2nd) before 20 October 1330 ALICE DE LISLE, daughter of Warin de Lisle, Knt, of Kingston Lisle (in Sparsholt) and Beedon, Berkshire, Mundford, Norfolk, etc., by Alice, daughter of Henry le Tyeys, Knt., 1st Lord Tyeys [see KINGSTON LISLE 8 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Henry, Knt., John, and Richard, and two daughters, Alice (wife of William Everingham) and Margaret (wife of Roger Beler, Knt.). By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Nicholas. He had livery of his father's lands 26 March 1335. He was summoned to Parliament from 1 April 1335 to 23 Nov. 1392, by writs directed johanni de Grey de Codenore or johanni filio Ricardi de Grey de Codenore or johanni Grey de Codenore. He served in Scotland at great expense in 1335, when he had a respite of debts due to the Exchequer. In 1344 he and his wife, Alice, were granted a papal indult for plenary remission. In 1345 he crossed over with the Earls of Derby and Pembroke to Gascony. He was in the Crecy expedition in 1346, and afterwards joined the king during the Siege of Calais in 1346-7. In 1347 he had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands at Barton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire. He presented to the churches of High Halstow, Kent, 1347, 1349, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1348, 1349, 1370, 1385, and Tunworth, Hampshire, 1348, 1349, 1351, 1367, 1373, 1377, 1388. He obtained a papal indult for a portable altar in 1355. In 1359 he was granted at farm the city of Rochester and the keepership of the castle there for life. The same year he was granted a protection, he then going abroad in the retinue of John, Earl of Richmond. He was going on a pilgrimage in 1365. SIR JOHN DE GREY, 3rd Lord Grey of Codnor, died 14 Dec. 1392, and was buried in the Carmelite church at Aylesford, Kent.
Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 8 (1808): 161-164. Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 227-230 (sub Grey of Codnor). Cox Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire 4 (1879): 233-234. Year Books of Edward III 3 (Rolls Ser. 31) (1886): 122-131. Kirby Wykeham's Reg. 1(1896): 7, 50, 92, 169. Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 110, 560. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 247. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 383; 4 (1911): 174-175. C.P. 6 (1926): 125-126 (sub Grey). Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffensis 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 49) (1948): 887. Dalton Manuscripts of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (1957): 405. Paget (1957) 259:5-7. Edington Reg. of William Edington Bishop of Winchester 1346-1366 1 (Hampshire Recs. 7) (1986): 47, 65,106,124. National Archives, C 143/249/21 (Date: 1339-40 - John de Grey of Codnor, Knt., to grant the reversion of land in Toton and of the advowson of the church of Attenborough, now held for life by Thomas de Vaus, to the Prior and convent of Felley, retaining the manors of Codnor (Derby) and Toton (Notts)); C 143/271/12; C 143/277/7 (Date: 1345-46 - Nicholas de Poyntz, Knt., to grant the manor of Hoo (Kent), except the advowsons of the churches there, to John de Grey of Codnor, Knt., in exchange for the manors of Broadway and East Elworth (Dorset). Kent. Dorset); C 143/292/2 (Date: 1349-50 -- Nicholas de Poyntz, Knt., to grant the right of alternate presentation to the churches of St. Mary at Hoo and St. Margaret at [High] Halstow, with land in Hoo, Kent to John de Grey of Codnor.) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). National Archives, CP 25/1/177/81, #467 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html].”
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d. 14 Dec 1392 (Age 87 years)