Sir Richard de Grey Knight, Lord de Codnor

  General Notes:

Weis's Ancestral Roots. 143:28-29, Lucy de Mohun, daughter, of Sir Reyold de Mohun by proably his first wife Hawise Fitz Geoffrey. Lucy de Mohun married Sir John de Grey of Codnor, co. Derby, who was dead before 5 Jan 1271/2 and the son of Sir Richard Grey and Lucy de Humez. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Sir Richard de Grey, so and heir of Henry de Grey and Iseude de Bardolf his wife, was with his brother John employed in Guernsey and Jersey in 1226 [Close Roll, 10 Hen. III, m. 16] and they were wardens thereof [Patent Rolls, passim] He was sheriff of Essex and Hertts in 1239, in which year he had a grant of free warren in Thurrock and a market and fiar there [Charter Roll, 2 Feb 1239, 23 Hen. III, mm. 7 & 5]. He was summoned for military service 15 Jun (1242) 26 Hen. III. The King took his homage for his mother's lands 13 Jul 1246. [Cal. Fine Rolls] On 1 Dec 1246, he had a royal gift of deer to stock his park of Codnore [Close Roll, 32 Hen III, m. 14] He was steward of Gascony before 2 May 1248 [Cose Roll, 32 Hen. III, m.10]. On 9 Jan 1250/1 he and his son John and others of his house and family had a pardon for trespasses in the forest of York [Idem, 35 Hen III, m.21] <article contines . . .>

Sir Richard de Grey married in or before 1223, Lucy, daughter of John de Humez [Cal. Fine Rolls, 1 Apr 1225] Sir Richard de Grey died before 8 Sep 1271 [Cal. Fine Rolls]

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VI, pp. 133-135

Richard married Lucy de Humez, daughter of John de Humez and Unknown. (Lucy de Humez was born about 1202 in Sheringham, Erpingham, Norfolk and died after 1282.)