CODNOR CASTLE, AND ITS ANCIENT OWNERS. 



of this family have sprung obiit 1266. His son 

 Reginald, Lord Grey of Wilton and Riithyn, had issue 

 John, Lord Grey of Wilton and Ruthyn, who died in 

 1323. He left issue two sons. 



(a) Henry, Lord Grey of Wilton, from whom descended 

 a long line of Lords Grey de Wilton, the last of 

 whom, Thomas, died without issue in 1614, and his 

 inheritance was carried by his sister, Bridget, into 

 the family of Egerton, created in 1801 Earl of Wilton. 



{b) The second son of John de Grey was Roger, Lord 

 Grey de Ruthyn, ancestor of the illustrious house of 

 Grey, Earls of Kent. The elder line of this branch 

 failed in Henry, Earl of Kent, who died in 1639, 

 when his sister Su?an carried the barony of Grey 

 de Ruthyn into the family of Longueville, and from 

 them through the Yehertons, Earls of Sus.sex, into 

 that of the Marquis of Hastings. The younger line 

 of the Earls of Kent attained to ducal rank in the 

 person of Henry, Duke of Kent, in 17 10, but on 

 his death, in 1 740, his earldom and dukedom 

 became extinct. 



A younger branch of the Lords Grey de Ruthyn attained 

 to tlie highest importance. It was founded by 

 Edward Grey, uncle to the first Earl of Kent, who 

 acquired by marriage the l)arony of Ferrers of 

 Groby. His eldest son George, Lord Grey of 

 Groby, married Elizabeth Wydville, afterwards 

 Queen of Edward IV., by wlioiii he had issue 

 Thomas Grey, created Marquis of Dorset by 

 Edward IV. in the fifteenth yenr of his reign, 1475. 

 His grandson, Henry, Marquis of Dorset, married 

 Lady Frances Brandon, granddaughter to 

 Henry VH., and was beheaded in 1554. His un- 

 fortunate daughter, the Lady Jane Grey, was four 

 days Queen of England. From John, his younger 

 brother, the Earls of Stamford are descended. 



