John de Gray (nobleman, † 1272)

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John de Gray († January 5, 1272 ) was an English nobleman and rebel.

John de Gray came from the Anglo-Norman family Gray . He was the eldest son of Richard de Gray and his wife Lucy de Humez.

Together with his father Richard de Gray and his uncles John and William de Gray he served during King Henry III's expedition . 1254 in Gascony , where the king had to put down a revolt. During the Second War of the Barons , however, Gray, like his father, was one of the supporters of the aristocratic opposition, which rebelled against the king. Under his father's command, he was part of the Dover Castle garrison in the spring of 1264 . In July 1265 he was a member of the army with which Simon de Montfort the Younger moved to the west of England in support of his father Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester . In front of the walls of Kenilworth Castle , they were surprised in their sleep by the troops of the heir to the throne, Lord Edward, on the night of August 1st . Gray was captured by the king's supporters with his father and numerous other rebels. After the victory of the royal party in the Battle of Evesham a few days later, his father was declared an enemy of the king and dispossessed. Robbed of their possessions, Gray and his father joined the remaining rebels who had holed up in Kenilworth Castle after their release as so-called disinherited . After a long siege, the garrison of Kenilworth, including father and son Gray, surrendered on December 14, 1266. According to the Dictum of Kenilworth , his father was allowed to buy back his possessions. A few years later his father must have died, whereupon John de Gray inherited the family estates Codnor in Derbyshire and Thurrock in Essex . But he died a little later himself.

Marriage and offspring

Gray had married Lucy de Mohun, a daughter of Reynold de Mohun and Hawise Fleming. With her he had at least one son, Henry de Gray , who became his heir.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert C. Stacey: Gray, Richard de (d. Before 1272). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
personal data
SURNAME De Gray, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and rebel
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1272