Thomas Grey
Also known as: Thomas Graie / sir Thomas Graie · Family: Parliament · Role: commissioner · First appears: Richard II 80
Life events
- c. 1399 · The commissioners formally deposed Richard II from England’s kingship.(Richard II 80)
- With: John, Bishop of St Asaph John, Abbot of Glastonbury Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester Thomas Berkeley, Baron Berkeley William Thirning Thomas Erpingham Richard II
- “And we depose him by our sentence definitiue”
- c. 1399 · The estates resigned their homage and fealty to Richard II.(Richard II 80)
- With: John, Bishop of St Asaph John, Abbot of Glastonbury Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester Thomas Berkeley, Baron Berkeley William Thirning Thomas Erpingham Richard II
- “to resigne and yeeld vp vnto king Richard, all their homage and fealtie”
- c. 1415 · Henry V discovered a conspiracy against his life and arrested the three conspirators.(Henry V 5)
- With: Henry V Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge Henry Scrope, Baron Scrope of Masham
- “he was crediblie informed, that Richard earle of Cambridge brother to Edward duke of Yorke, and Henrie lord Scroope of Masham lord treasuror, with Thomas Graie a knight of Northumberland, being confederat togither, had conspired his death: wherefore he caused them to be apprehended”
- c. 1415 · The prisoners confessed accepting French money to betray or murder Henry V.(Henry V 5)
- With: Henry V Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge Henry Scrope, Baron Scrope of Masham
- “These prisoners vpon their examination, confessed, that for a great summe of monie which they had receiued of the French king, they intended verelie either to haue deliuered the king aliue into the hands of his enimies, or else to haue murthered him before he should arriue in the duchie of Normandie”
- c. 1415 · Henry V ordered the three conspirators to execution.(Henry V 5)
- With: Henry V Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge Henry Scrope, Baron Scrope of Masham
- “And so immediatlie they were had to execution”
- c. 1415 · Richard of Conisburgh and Thomas Grey were indicted for conspiring to advance Edmund Mortimer against Henry V.(Henry V 6 · 📍 Southampton)
- With: Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March Henry V
- “certeine it is that indicted he was by the name of Richard earle of Cambridge of Connesburgh in the countie of Yorke knight, and with him Thomas Graie of Heton in the countie of Northumberland knight; for that they the twentith daie of Iulie, in the third yeare of king Henrie the fifts reigne, at Southampton, and in diuerse other places within this realme, had conspired togither with a power of men to them associat, without the kings licence, to haue led awaie the lord Edmund earle of March into Wales”