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Gascony in 1377, petitioned the pope to release him from his vow. Two years after Crecy we find him again taking part in the French wars, and despatched to Avignon to treat with the pope for a firm and lasting peace between the two countries. The next year (1349) he accompanied the earl of Lancaster to Gascony, to suppress the rebellion there. In 1355, when Edward was leaving England for a fresh invasion of France, Burghersh was appointed one of the guardians of the realm, but died at the beginning of August of that year.
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148:, in which capacity his presence is often recorded at delivery the great seal. In one of Edward's grievous straits for money, he was entrusted with the pawning of the crown and other jewels. As Keeper of the king's forest to the south of the Trent in 1341 he was commissioned to provide timber for the construction of engines of war and '
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223:, by his first wife Katherine Fitzalan. Their heir was their grandson Bartholomew Grey (4th Baron Grey of Rotherfield), named after his Burghersh great grandfather. Bartholomew Grey was the son of his parents' eldest son John Grey and his wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Richard de Poynings.
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