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Henry GREY, Of Powis, Count Of Tankarville[1]

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Name Henry GREY [2, 3, 4] Suffix Of Powis, Count Of Tankarville Birth Abt 1419 Heaton Castle, Wark-On-Tweed, Northumberland, England [2, 4, 5]
Gender Male _UID 6DB0BBA469634972A8CB6E824B36A05CE30C Death 13 Jan 1449-1450 Powis, Montgomeryshire, Wales [2, 3, 4]
Person ID I13344 Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy Last Modified 5 Feb 2012
Father John GREY, Of Wark-On-Tweed, Kg, Sir, b. Aft 1384, Heaton Castle, Wark-On-Tweed, Northumberland, England d. 22 Mar 1420-1421, Battle Of Bauge, Anjou, France (Killed)
(Age ~ 36 years)
Mother Joan CHERLETON, b. Abt 1400, Upper Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales d. 17 Sep 1425 (Age ~ 25 years)
Family ID F6778 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Antigone PLANTAGENET, b. Bef 1421, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England d. Yes, date unknown
Marriage Aft 3 Jan 1434-1435 1st Husband [4, 6, 7]
Children 1. Elizabeth GREY, b. Abt 1440, Pontesbury, Montgomeryshire, Wales d. Aft 1501 (Age ~ 62 years)
Family ID F6804 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
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Notes - Henry de Grey, Earl of Tancarville, age 1 1/2+ at father's death, d. 13 Jan 1449/50; m. as 1st husband, Antigone, only child (bastard) of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, b. 1391, d. 23 Feb 1447, son of King Henry IV of England and Mary Bohun, and grandson of John, Duke of Lancaster and Blanche of Lancaster. [Ancestral Roots]
Note: Tanquerville is in France (captured territory), and has very little to do with their "permanent" family holdings.
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HENRY GRAY, COUNT OF TANCARVILLE, son and heir, aged 1 1/2 and more at his father's death. He was knighted on Whitsunday 1426. On 5 December 1441, having proved his age in co. Salop, he had livery of the lands of his inheritance, his homage and fealty being respited. He married Antigone, illegitimate daughter of Humphrey, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.(a) He died 13 January 1449/50. [Complete Peerage VI:138-9, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(a) On 3 January 1434/5 the marriage of Henry, son and heir of John Gray kt. and Joan his wife, was granted to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, for £800. (Patent Roll, 13 Hen. VI, m. 27).
Note: The knighthood seems a little early (age 8 or so), but Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester got his knighthood very early as well.
- Henry de Grey, Earl of Tancarville, age 1 1/2+ at father's death, d. 13 Jan 1449/50; m. as 1st husband, Antigone, only child (bastard) of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, b. 1391, d. 23 Feb 1447, son of King Henry IV of England and Mary Bohun, and grandson of John, Duke of Lancaster and Blanche of Lancaster. [Ancestral Roots]
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Sources - [S579] Jim Weber.
- [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, VI:138-9 (Reliability: 3).
- [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 47d-35, 1a-34 (Reliability: 3).
- [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 31-10 (Reliability: 3).
- [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 46d-35, 1a-34 (Reliability: 3).
- [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, VI:139 (a) (Reliability: 3).
- [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 1a-34, 47d-35 (Reliability: 3).
- [S579] Jim Weber.