Cecily (Bonville) Grey (1461 - 1530)

Born 1461 in Chewton, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 12 May 1530 at about age 69 in Shacklewell, Hackney, Middlesex, England

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Cecily Bonville was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Cecily Bonville was born in 1461 at of Chewton, Somersetshire, England.^[1] She was the daughter of:

• Sir William Bonville, 6th Lord Harington^[2] b. c 1442, d. 31 Dec 1460
• and Katherine Neville^[3] b. c 1435

Marriage

Cecily married twice.

Grey

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Her first husband was Sir Thomas Grey.^[4] They had 7 sons (Edward; Anthony; Sir Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Dorset; Sir Richard; Sir John; Leonard, Viscount Grane; & George, Vicar of St. Michael, Coventry) and 7 daughters (Cecily, wife of Sir John, 3rd Lord Dudley; Bridget; Dorothy, wife of Sir Robert, 2nd Lord Willoughby, & of Sir William Blount, 4th Lord Montjoy; Elizabeth, wife of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare; Margaret, wife of Richard Wake, Esq; Eleanor, wife of Sir John Arundell; & Mary, wife of Sir Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford).^[5]

Stafford

She remarried to Sir Henry Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire, son of Sir Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke Buckingham, 7th Earl of Stafford, 8th Lord Stafford and Katherine Wydeville, between 22 November 1503 and 8 October 1505; No issue.^[6]

Death

Cecily Bonville left a will on 6 March 1528.7,17 She died on 12 April 1530 or 12 May 1530 at Shacklewell, Hackney, Middlesex, England; Buried at Astley, Warwickshire, with 1st husband.^[7]

Her estate was probated on 5 November 1530.^[8]

Descendants

Her grandson Henry was the father of Lady Jane Grey (b. 1537), who was also granddaughter of Mary, sister of Henry VIII. Edward VI died in July 1553, and power politics saw Lady Jane Grey, at age 16, become Queen of England for less than 2 weeks before being imprisoned and executed in 1554, a year after her father had met the same fate. Mary I became the rightful Queen under her father Henry VIII's will. In the same year, 1554, the estate in Merriott was seized by the Crown and granted to William & Barbara Rice. Their lease fell to Sir Jerome Bowes in 1575, and stayed in the Bowes family until sold to James Hooper in 1587. James' nephew Henry Hooper inherited in 1598, and he enfranchised much of the estate and granted parts of the manor by three conveyances. The manor was heavily mortgaged by the Hoopers. It was eventually sold in 1686 to Thomas Rodbard, a London fishmonger, who left it to a succession of Rodbards, including the illegitimate children of Mary Butcher. See: Butcher Family Page. Eventually the Whitley family inherited the lordship into the 20th century. Queen Mary bestowed the Manor of Merriott on one family; her successor Queen Elizabeth I on another. Since then the lordship of the manor changed hands many times; eventually no title remained. The Victoria County History has more detail. ^[9]

Notes

• Baroness Bonville and Harington; Birth AFT 1457 of Chewton Mendip, Somerset; Death: 12 MAY 1529 Astley, WAR; Burial AFT 12 MAY 1529 Astley, Warwick; Marriage ABT 18 JUL 1474 Thomas de GREY. Issue:

Child: Edward

Child: Thomas

Child: Eleanor

Child: Anthony

Child: Dorothy

Child: John

Child: Richard

Child: Cicely

Child: Elizabeth

Child: Leonard

Child: Mary

Child: Margaret

Child: George

Child: Bridget

Child: Anne

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 359.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 43-44.
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 257
4. ↑ 'Vatican Regesta 663: 1474', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, ed. J A Twemlow (London, 1955), pp. 218-220. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp218-220 [accessed 29 November 2020].
5. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 258.
6. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 304-305
7. ↑ The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., 111.
8. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 160-162.
9. ↑ (Ref: The Domesday Book - England's Heritage, Then & Now.)

• Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 436
• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. V. page 22
• Marlyn Lewis
• The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Roberts, Gary Boyd. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
• Nicolas, Nicholas Harris. Testamenta Vetusta (Nichols & Son, London, 1826) Vol. 2, Page 631-4
• "Edward IV: October 1472," in Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, ed. Chris Given-Wilson, Paul Brand, Seymour Phillips, Mark Ormrod, Geoffrey Martin, Anne Curry and Rosemary Horrox (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), British History Online, accessed March 8, 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/parliament-rolls-medieval/october-1472.
• "Edward IV: October 1472, Third Roll," in Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, ed. Chris Given-Wilson, Paul Brand, Seymour Phillips, Mark Ormrod, Geoffrey Martin, Anne Curry and Rosemary Horrox (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), British History Online, accessed March 8, 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/parliament-rolls-medieval/october-1472-third-roll.
• "Edward IV: January 1478," in Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, ed. Chris Given-Wilson, Paul Brand, Seymour Phillips, Mark Ormrod, Geoffrey Martin, Anne Curry and Rosemary Horrox (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), British History Online, accessed March 8, 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/parliament-rolls-medieval/january-1478.