GREY of Powis

Married: Roger KYNASTON of Hordley (Sir Knight Sheriff of Salop) (b. ABT 1430 - d. ABT 1496) (son of Griffith Knyaston and Margaret Hoord) (w. of Elizabeth Cobham) ABT 1465

Children:

1. Jane KYNASTON

2. Thomas KYNASTON of Rosehampton (Sir Sheriff of Salop) (d. AFT 1508) (m. Mary Corbet)

3. Humphrey KYNASTON

4. Margaret KYNASTON (m. Richard Hanmer)

5. Lancelot KYNASTON

6. Mary KYNASTON

Humphrey GREY

Born: ABT 1442, Pontesbury, Montgomeryshire, England

Father: Henry GREY (2º E. Tankerville)

Mother: Antigone PLANTAGENET (C. Tankerville)

Married: Dau. TOUCHET ABT 1468

Children:

1. John GREY

John GREY

Born: ABT 1469, Powis, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Father: Humphrey GREY

Mother: Dau. TOUCHET

Married: Ellen VERCH OWEN (dau. of Owen Ap Evan Teg) ABT 1499

Richard GREY (3° E. Tankerville)

Born: 5 Nov 1436, Pontesbury, Montgomeryshire, England

Died: 1459 / 17 Dec 1466

Notes: attainted for adhering to the house of York.

Father: Henry GREY (2º E. Tankerville)

Mother: Antigone PLANTAGENET (C. Tankerville)

Married: Margaret TOUCHET (C. Tankerville)

Children:

1. John GREY (1° B. Grey of Powis)

2. Elizabeth GREY

Elizabeth GREY

Father: Richard GREY (3° E. Tankerville)

Mother: Margaret TOUCHET (C. Tankerville)

Married: John LUDLOW of Hodnet (Sir) (d. 23 Dec 1493) (son of Sir Richard Ludlow of Hodnet and Isabelle Pembridge)

Children:

1. Alice LUDLOW (m. Humphrey Vernon)

2. Anne (Amy) LUDLOW (m. Thomas Vernon)

John GREY (1° B. Grey of Powis)

Born: 1460, Pontesbury, Shropshire, England

Died: 1494 / 1497

Notes: obtained livery of his lands, in the 20th Edw. IV., without making proof of his age, was summoned to parliament as a baron, under the designation of "Johanni Grey de Powers", from 15 Nov 1482, 22 Edw. IV., to 16 Jan, 1497, 12th Hen. VII. Sir Harris Nicolas, in his "Synopsis of the Peerage" deems the Barony of Grey of Powis created by the summons of Edw. IV., not a continuation of that Cherleton of Powis.

Father: Richard GREY (3° E. Tankerville)

Mother: Margaret TOUCHET (C. Tankerville)

Married: Anne HERBERT AFT 14 Feb 1470/71, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Children:

1. John GREY (2° B. Grey of Powis)

John GREY (2° B. Grey of Powis)

Born: 1482/3, Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Died: 15 Apr 1504

Father: John GREY (1° B. Grey of Powis)

Mother: Anne HERBERT

Married: MargaretSUTTON (B. Grey of Powis) ABT 1501

Children:

1. Edward GREY (3° B. Grey of Powis)

2. Antonhy GREY

Edward GREY (3° B. Grey of Powis)

Born: 1503, Powys, Montgomeryshire, England

Died: 2 Jul 1551

Notes: summoned to parliament, from 3 Nov 1529 to 23 Jan 1552. This nobleman accompanied Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, 15th Hen. VIII., in the expedition then made into France, and was at the taking of Bray and other places, won, at that time, from the French. He married Anne Brandon, dau. and co-heir of the Duke of Suffolk, by whom he had no issue. He had illegitimate children by one Jane Orwell, upon whom he entailed the greater part of his estates, composing the Barony of Powis. He d. in 1552, when the Barony of Grey de Powis fell, it is supposed, into abeyance, but between whom, has not been determined.

Father: John GREY (2° B. Grey of Powis)

Mother: MargaretSUTTON (B. Powis)

Married: Anne BRANDON (B. Grey of Powis)1531, Suffolk, England

Associated with: Jane ORWELL (dau. of Sir Lewis Orwell)

Children:

1. Edward GREY

2. Anne GREY

3. Jane GREY

4. Son GREY

5. Cecily GREY

Anne GREY

Born: ABT 1541, Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Father: Edward GREY (3° B. Grey of Powis)

Mother: Jane ORWELL

Married: Christopher HAYWOOD ABT 1560

Jane GREY

Born: ABT 1543, Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Father: Edward GREY (3° B. Grey of Powis)

Mother: Jane ORWELL

Married: William BOOTH ABT 1562

Cecily GREY

Born: ABT 1545, Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Father: Edward GREY (3° B. Grey of Powis)

Mother: Jane ORWELL

Married: Humphrey FREEMAN ABT 1564

Edward GREY

Born: ABT 1545

Father: Edward GREY (3° B. Grey of Powis)

Mother: Jane ORWELL

Married: Chrisogena GIFFORD (b. ABT 1551) (dau. of John Gifford and Elizabeth Throckmorton) Itchell, Hampshire, England

Children:

1. Edward GREY (b. ABT 1578)

2. Walter GREY (b. ABT 1580)

3. Andrew GREY (b. ABT 1582)

4. Thomas GREY

5. Devereux GREY (b. ABT 1586)

6. Jane GREY

7. Lettice GREY (b. ABT 1589)

8. Cecily GREY

9. Chrisogena GREY

Jane GREY

Born: ABT 1588, Buildwas, Shropshire, England

Father: Edward GREY

Mother: Chrisogena GIFFORD

Married 1: William SHELDON 1614

Married 2: William LEIGHTON

Cecily GREY

Born: ABT 1591

Father: Edward GREY

Mother: Chrisogena GIFFORD

Married: George FRENCH (b. ABT 1570) (son of Edward French and Susan Savage) ABT 1597, Pershore, Worcestershire, England

Children:

1. Anne FRENCH (b. 1610) (m. Thomas Mason)

2. George FRENCH (m. Grace Baugh)

Chrisogena GREY

Born: ABT 1592, Buildwas, Shropshire, England

Died: ABT 1687

Father: Edward GREY

Mother: Chrisogena GIFFORD

Married: Morton BRIGGS ABT 1610

Children:

1. Robert BRIGGES (b. ABT 1613)

Thomas GREY

Born: ABT 1584, Buildwas, Shropshire, England

Notes: Barry Watson told me about the descendants of Lord Edward Grey of Powis that Edward Grey was his illegitimate son, he had a son Edward Grey, who married Chrysogon Gifford. Their son Thomas married Anne Woodhouse, the daughter of Sir Henry Woodhouse of Waxham, Norfolk.

Father: Edward GREY

Mother: Chrisogena GIFFORD

Married: Anne DUDLEY ABT 1614, Cleobury

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