John Gray, 2nd Baron Gray of Codnor
John Gray, 2nd Baron Gray of Codnor (also 5th Baron Gray of Codnor ) († September 14, 1430 ) was an English nobleman who was the king's deputy in Ireland from 1427 to 1428 .
John Gray was the eldest son of Richard Gray, 1st Baron Gray of Codnor and his wife Elizabeth Basset. After his father's death in 1418, he inherited his estates including Codnor Castle . While his father was a close confidante of Kings Henry IV and Henry V , Gray served Henry V reluctantly. In 1419 he came late to Wingfield , not far from Codnor , where he had been ordered. He was then called to military service in Normandy, but it was not until 1421 that he crossed over to France, where he made his feudal oath to Henry V. For the next several years, Gray served in France until he was appointed King's Lieutenant of Ireland for a three-year term in March 1427 . There the English supremacy was increasingly endangered, which is why Gray was given 600 soldiers, plus the considerable sum of 4,000 marks a year. In the confused political situation in Ireland, however, he quickly failed. In March 1428, John Swayne, Archbishop of Armagh , and another Irish bishop appeared before the Privy Council in England, and on March 23, 1428, Gray was prematurely replaced as King's Lieutenant by Sir John Sutton .
Gray married Elizabeth FitzGerald, a daughter of the Irish nobleman Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Earl of Kildare and his wife Agnes Darcy. The only child from the marriage, John, died shortly before his father in 1430. As a result, Grey's brother Henry inherited the property on which he had started to exploit a coal mine.
Web links
- Sir John de Gray, 2nd Lord Gray (of Codnor) on thepeerage.com , accessed June 16, 2016.
- Cracroft's Peerage: Gray (of Codnor), Baron (E, 1397)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Magnus Alexander, Jonathan Millward: Codnor Castle. Earthwork Analysis, Suryey Report. English Heritage, 2008, p. 9. (pdf file, 3.76 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 28, 2011 ; accessed on June 22, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ralph Alan Griffiths: The Reign of King Henry VI. The exercice of royal authority, 1422-1461 . University of California press, Berkeley 1981. ISBN 0-520-04372-3 , p. 165
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Gray |
Baron Gray of Codnor 1418-1430 |
Henry Gray |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gray, John, 2nd Baron Gray of Codnor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gray, John, 5th Baron Gray of Codnor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1430 |