Groby Old Hall

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Groby Old Hall

Groby Old Hall is a manor house near Groby Castle in the village of Groby in the English county of Leicestershire . The house, which was partly built from bricks in the 15th century , is listed as Historic Building II * by English Heritage . Grade listed.

history

The large house that was in front of the current building at this location was believed to have been built by the Ferrers of Groby family . The 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby had received his title for services to Kings Edward I and Edward II . The house and the title of baron fell to the Gray family in 1432 through the marriage of Elizabeth Ferrers , granddaughter and heir of the 5th Baron Ferrers, to Sir Edward Gray . The most famous members of the Gray family were queens of England (even if only briefly in some cases): Elizabeth Woodville and Lady Jane Gray .

Elizabeth Woodville married Sir Edward Grey's son, John, and they moved to Groby, where they had two sons. After John Grey's death in the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461, his widow King Edward IV asked for the confiscated lands to be returned. Not only did she win her case, but the king's heart, and so became his wife. As Queen, she sought to advance the affairs of her Woodville relatives, their sons of John Gray, and their children of Edward IV, but with mixed success. Of the royal children, two young unhappy princes became princes in the Tower , while their daughter, also named Elizabeth , married King Henry VII , the victor of the Battle of Bosworth , thus uniting the Houses of Lancaster and York at the end of the Wars of the Roses . Elizabeth Woodville saw the birth of two royal grandsons, Prince Arthur and the future King Henry VIII.

Her son Thomas Gray also made a career: first he was appointed Earl of Huntingdon and then in 1475 Marquess of Dorset . After the death of Edward IV and the rise of Richard III. he had to flee into exile in France , where he joined Henry Tudor as a valued but unreliable supporter of the Lancaster cause. After Henry Tudor Richard III. Defeated in 1485, Thomas Gray held his precarious position at the new royal court, but found means to upgrade his ancestral manor in Groby. It appears that he was commissioning work on a new brick gatehouse in the same location as the old mansion that later became part of what is now called the Old Hall. Soon, however, he had bigger plans and began building a completely new large house in his hunting ground in Bradgate Park , a few miles away, which was not completed until some time after his death in 1501. Bradgate House became the seat of the Grays for the next 240 years, albeit with a few interruptions around 1554, and it is also where Thomas Grey's great-granddaughter, Lady Jane Gray was born and raised.

Groby Old Hall, into which some much older remains were incorporated, remained an important part of the Groby estate and shared the checkered fate of the Gray family. It is not known when the once great mansion was demolished. It was the subject of an inconclusive broadcast by Time Team in 2011. The red brick gatehouse became the "Old Hall" and is one of the earliest brick structures in England. Time Team at Groby Old Hall 2010

In art and culture

The old mansion, which starred Christopher Tietjens in Ford Madox Ford's literary masterpiece about World War I , Parade's End , which was released in 1925 and released as a BBC television film in 2012 , has been dubbed “Groby Hall”. The big house with an old tree on the estate is in the novel in North Riding of Yorkshire .

"Tietjens" is a form of the patronymic "Theodore", as is Teddy and Tudor , the royal dynasty founded by Sir John Gray of Groby's widow Elizabeth Woodville as the royal mother-in-law of the illegitimate eldest son of the Earl of Richmond , Henry VII Daughter Elizabeth of York was founded and legitimized.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Old Hall, Groby . In: britishlistedbuildings.co.uk . Retrieved April 27, 2016.
  2. ^ Anthony Squires: The Grays: A Long and Noble Line . Silk Press Books, 2002. ISBN 1-902685-10-5 . P. 11.
  3. ^ A b c Anthony Squires: The Grays: A Long and Noble Line . Silk Press Books, 2002. ISBN 1-902685-10-5 . P. 180.
  4. ^ Anthony Squires: The Grays: A Long and Noble Line . Silk Press Books, 2002. ISBN 1-902685-10-5 . P. 15.
  5. ^ Anthony Squires: The Grays: A Long and Noble Line . Silk Press Books, 2002. ISBN 1-902685-10-5 . P. 27.
  6. ^ Anthony Squires: The Grays: A Long and Noble Line . Silk Press Books, 2002. ISBN 1-902685-10-5 . P. 32.
  7. ↑ Some Do Not ... . Project Gutenberg Australia . Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ Theodore . Behind the name. Retrieved April 28, 2016.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 47.5 "  N , 1 ° 13 ′ 36.5"  W.