CODNOR CASTLE, AND ITS ANCIENT OWNERS. 23 



(3) William de Grey (third son of Henry and Isolda of 

 Codnor) was seated at Sandiacre, and was ancestor of 

 the Greys of Sutton, whose inheritance passed by a 

 daughter to the family of Leeke, Earl of Scarsdale. 



(4) Henry. {Vide Burke s Peerage.) 

 We will now return to the De Gre) s of Codnor. When most of 



the barons declined to accompany Henry HI (anno 36) to the 

 Holy Land, Richard de Grey of Codnor, eldest son of Henry, 

 and his brother John, of Shirland, readily consented, whereupon 

 the King kissed them, and called them his brothers. 



In the forty- second of Henry HI., having been deprived of the 

 wardenship of Dover Castle, Richard revolted to the barons, and 

 was with young Montford at Kenilworth, on his way to the north 

 to join the elder de Montford, when he was taken i)risoner by a 

 party of Prince Edward's horse, and was deprived of his lands, 

 which, however he recovered by the dictum of Kenilworth 



In 1240 he founded a house for Carmelites at Aylesford in 

 Kent, in imitation of those he had seen in the Holy Land, and, 

 dying in 1255. ^^'^^ buried in that religious house, where many of 

 his family were afterwards interred. 



His grandson Henry was the first Baron de Grey of Codnor 

 l)y writ. He died in 1309. 



His son, Richard Lord Grey, in 1330, claimed the assize of 

 bread and ale in Toton as a member of Codnor. 



In 1334 he obtained a charter for a market every Thursday at 

 Denby, with a fair on the Eve of the Nativity of the B.V.M. He 

 died in 1336. 



His son John, Lord Grey, and two others were commissioned 

 to array all the men in Derbyshire, between si.xteen and sixty, to 

 march against the Scotch. 



It may truly be said of him, that he was always amongst the 

 foremost in the military struggles at home and abroad in the reigns 

 of Edwards II. and HI. 



In his time, the castle at Codnor, as might almost be expected, 

 was repaired, and no doubt enlarged and strengthened; the wall 

 containing the single-light window between the two northernmost 



