The title of Baron Grey de Rotherfield was created once in the
Peerage of England
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. On 25 August 1338 Sir John de Grey was summoned to parliament. He was invested as Knight of the
Order of the Garter
The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III of England in 1348. It is the most senior order of knighthood in the British honours system, outranked in precedence only by the Victoria Cross and the Georg ...
ten years later. On the death of the fourth baron in 1388, the barony became dormant.
However, the estate reaches back farther to the Grey family's ancestor, the Norman knight
Anchetil de Greye, who is specifically mentioned in the
Domesday Book
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of 1086 as the lord of the Rotherfield estate or manor.
The principal estate of the Lords Grey was
Greys Court
Greys Court is a Tudor country house and gardens in the southern Chiltern Hills at Rotherfield Greys, near Henley-on-Thames in the county of Oxfordshire, England. Now owned by the National Trust, it is located at , and is open to the public.
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located in
Rotherfield Greys
Rotherfield Greys is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire. It is west of Henley-on-Thames and just over east of Rotherfield Peppard (locally known as Peppard). It is linked by a near-straight minor road to H ...
,
Oxfordshire
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. They were also feudal barons of
Shabbington
Shabbington is a village and civil parish in west Buckinghamshire, England, about west of Thame in neighbouring Oxfordshire, and southwest of Aylesbury.
The village is close to the River Thame, which forms much of the southern boundary of the ...
in
Buckinghamshire
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and
Bedale
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in
Yorkshire
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.
Barons Grey de Rotherfield (1338)
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John de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Rotherfield (c.1300–1359)
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John de Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Rotherfield
John de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Rotherfield, KG (9 October 1300 – September 1359) was an English soldier and courtier. John was the son and heir of Sir John de Grey of Rotherfield, by Margaret, daughter of William de Odingsells.
John de Gre ...
(1320–1375)
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(1351–1376)
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Robert de Grey, 4th Baron Grey de Rotherfield (d. 1388) (dormant 1388)
See also
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House of Grey
The House of Grey is an ancient English noble family from Creully in Normandy. The founder of the House of Grey was Anchetil de Greye, a Norman chevalier and vassal of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, one of the few proven companions ...
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1338 establishments in England
Dormant baronies in the Peerage of England
Noble titles created in 1338