Edmund Grey, Baron Grey of Ruthin

Also known as: Edmund Grey, Baron Grey de Ruthin / Edmund lord Greie of Ruthen · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: lord · First appears: Henry VI 59

Life events

c. 1460 · Edmund Grey betrayed Henry VI by opening the fortified camp to the Yorkist attackers.(Henry VI 59 · 📍 Northampton)
- With: Edward IV Henry VI
- “Edmund lord Greie of Ruthen who was on the kings side, failed in the trust committed to him”

with Henry VI (He betrayed the king's side by admitting the enemy into the camp.) “Edmund lord Greie of Ruthen who was on the kings side, failed in the trust committed to him: for where the enimies could not (without great danger) enter vpon the kings campe, by reason of a mightie trench and rampire pight full of piles and sharpe stakes, wherewith the campe was compassed about: the said lord Graie came with his men, and with helping hands pulled the enimies vp, and receiued them into the field where the battell was begun with great force & violence”

sworn: Edward IV “But when the maior looked to be set to keepe the state in the hall, as it beene vsed in all places of the citie and liberties, out of the kings presence (vnknowne to the sergeants and against their wils, as they said) the lord Graie of Ruthen then treasuror of England was there placed.”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.