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Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane. Leonard Grey, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1479/1492 – 28 July 1541), known as Lord Leonard Grey prior to 1536, served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1536 to 1540. Family. Leonard Grey was a younger son of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset and Cecily Bonville, Baroness Harington and Bonville. [1] Career.
21 de may. de 2015 · GREY or GRAY, Lord LEONARD, Viscount Grane in the Irish peerage (d. 1541), Statesman, sixth son of Thomas Grey (1451-1501) [q. v.], first marquis of Dorset, is said in his youth to have dabbled in the black arts of treasure-seeking.
In the meantime Grey had been created a viscount in the Irish peerage in October 1535 (and taken his title from the dissolved nunnery of Grane in Co. Kildare which had been granted to him in June), elected lord justice by the Irish Council on 1 January 1536, on the death of Sir William Skeffington (qv), and appointed lord deputy by the king on ...
Leonard Grey (b. abt. 1490), was the sixth but second surviving son of: Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and Cecily Bonville, dau. of Sir William Bonville, Lord Harington. He was created Viscount Grane [co. Carlow, Ireland] on 02 January 1535/6.
Grey, Leonard, 1st Viscount Grane [I] (1490–1541). Grey was one of many who perished in the mire of Tudor Ireland. He was a younger son of the 1st marquis of Dorset. His grandmother was Elizabeth, queen of Edward IV, and his nephew's daughter was Lady Jane Grey.
He went to Ireland as marshal of the English army in 1535, being created an Irish peer as Viscount Grane in the same year, but he never assumed this title. In 1536 Grey was appointed lord deputy of Ireland in succession to Sir William Skeffington ; he was active in marching against the rebels and he presided over the important.
1st Viscount Grane, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 32.H.8 he was recalled from Ireland and had 'diverse articles of High Treason exhibited against him, charged with a purpose to join with Cardinal Poole and others of the King's enemies...and also that he had consented to the escape of his nephew Gerald, being brought...
