Walter Gray

Also known as: Walter Graie · Family: England · Role: lord chancellor · First appears: King John 14

Life events

1213 · Walter Gray became lord chancellor.(King John 14)
- “Moreouer in the same yeare, Walter Gray was made lord chancellour”
c. 1213 · Walter Gray was appointed to govern the see of Yorke.(King John 22 · 📍 Yorke)
- “About the same time also, Walter Gray bishop of Worcester was remooued to the gouernement of the sée of Yorke”
c. 1215 · After Simon de Langton’s election was annulled, Walter Gray was elected and promoted to York’s archbishopric.(King John 27 · 📍 Yorke)
- With: King John
- “so that the said Walter Graie was then elected and promoted to the guiding of the sée of Yorke, according to the kings speciall desire in that behalfe.”

sworn: King John (Walter Gray served as King John's lord chancellor.) “Moreouer in the same yeare, Walter Gray was made lord chancellour, who in all thing studied to satisfie the kings will and purpose, for the which he incurred great indignation of the cleargie, and other that fauoured not the procéedings of the king.”

with Geoffrey Plantagenet, Archbishop of York (Walter Gray succeeded to the vacant see after Geoffrey's death.) “Walter Gray bishop of Worcester was remooued to the gouernement of the sée of Yorke, which had béene vacant euer since the death of the archbishop Geffrey.”

sworn: King John “so that the said Walter Graie was then elected and promoted to the guiding of the sée of Yorke, according to the kings speciall desire in that behalfe.”

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