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Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton

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in 1553; certainly, he was there when the French declared war in 1557; his eyewitness account of his father's last desperate defence of Guisnes, after Calais itself has fallen, remains the best source for the episode. Like his father he became a hostage but was ransomed a year later. He succeeded his
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was dated of 6 March 1614/1615 and probated on 14 July 1615. She naturalized as an English subject in 1575/1576, and was the widow of Edward Russell, Baron Russell, whom she married c. 1571; he died before June 1572 without issue and
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devastated by famine. He had been largely successful in restoring order, but the justice of some of his actions was criticised, including the Smerwick massacre, and the hanging of the former Chief Justice,
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on two separate occasions, in both 1569 and 1587, though it is not recorded if he held that title for all the years in between. He probably went with his father to
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Lord Grey first married Dorothy, daughter of Richard, Lord Zouche. He secondly married, after 1572, Jane Sibella Morrison, who died in July 1615 and whose last
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father as 14th Baron in 1562; the family fortune was by then much reduced by the heavy ransom required to free his father.
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where he massacred 600 Irish, Italian and Spanish troops who had already surrendered, a notorious incident known as the
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A commentary of the services and charges of William Lord Grey of Wilton, by his son Arthur Grey
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Not long after his father's death, Lord Grey de Wilton wrote an affectionate memoir of him,
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dated 2 June 1600, probated 12 January 1600/1601), who married secondly before 1563
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Commentary on the Services and Charges of William Lord Grey de Wilton
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By 1582, the rebellion was in its last throes and he was recalled to
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on 25 June 1566, also without issue. Bridget was a daughter of
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In 1580, he recruited a force of 6,000 and was sent as
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was administered on 30 June 1572) and was buried at
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Baron Grey de Wilton
Lord Deputy of Ireland
Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton
Bridget, Lady Egerton
William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton

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last defence of Calais
Siege of Smerwick
Corca Dhuibhne
County Kerry
Lord Deputy of Ireland

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