Sir Ralph Grey (1409–1443), knight, was the second son of Sir Thomas Grey and Lady Alice Neville. He held the manor and town of Wark, the towns of Coupland in Kirknewton, Learmouth and Presson in Carham, the manor and town of Doddington, the manor of Wooler, Northumberland. He was the warden of Roxburgh Castle .[1]
In 1427, he married Elizabeth FitzHugh, daughter of Sir Henry FitzHugh and Elizabeth de Grey at Ravensworth, Yorkshire. They are known to have had at least two sons:
Sir Thomas b.1429
Sir Ralph Grey b. 1432, executed 1464[2]
Sir Ralph died in France in 1443.[2] After his death his wife Elizabeth, with other ladies of the English court accompanied Margaret de Anjou, the intended wife of King Henry VI, to England, where she later served as an attendant to Queen Margaret. Elizabeth married secondly Sir Edmund Montfort in 1447.[2]
Sir Ralph and his wife Elizabeth are buried in a well preserved, elaborately decorated alabaster and sandstone tomb at St Peter's of Chillingham.[3]
References
- King, Andy (2005). "Scaling the Ladder: The Rise and Rise of the Grays of Heaton, c. 1296–c. 1415". In Christian D. Liddy & Richard H. Britnell (eds.). North-East England in the Later Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. pp. 57–73. ISBN 1-84383-127-9.
- Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
- "Geograph:: Tomb of Sir Ralph Grey and his wife... © Derek Voller". www.geograph.org.uk.