The title of Baron Grey de Rotherfield was created once in the

Peerage of England The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerag ...

. 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. The most senior order of knighthood in the Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, British honours system, it is outranked in ...

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 Anchetil de Greye (c. 1046 – after 1086) was a Norman chevalier and vassal of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, one of the great magnates of early Norman England, and one of the very few proven companions of William the Conqueror known to ...

, who is specifically mentioned in the

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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. ...

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 ...

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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 th ...

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and

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Barons Grey de Rotherfield (1338)

John de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Rotherfield John de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Rotherfield Knight of the Garter, KG (9 October 1300 – September 1359) was an English people, English soldier and courtier. John was the son and heir of Sir John de Grey of Rotherfield, by Margaret, daughter of ...

(–1359) *

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 Grey ...

(1320–1375) *

Bartholomew de Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Rotherfield Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael, who appears in the Gospel of John (1:45–51; cf. 21:2). New Testament references The name ''Bartholomew ...

(1351–1376) *

Robert de Grey, 4th Baron Grey de Rotherfield The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, reno ...

(d. 1388) (dormant 1388)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grey Of Rotherfield 1338 establishments in England Dormant baronies in the Peerage of England Noble titles created in 1338

Barons Grey de Rotherfield (1338)

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