Thomas Gray, 1st Baron Richemount Gray

Thomas Gray, 1st Baron Richemount Gray (also Rougemont or Rugemont Gray ) († December 1461 ) was an English nobleman .

Thomas Gray was a younger son of Sir John Gray and his wife Constance, the eldest daughter of John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter and Elizabeth Plantagenet .

His father died in 1439, after the death of his grandfather Reginald Gray, 3rd Baron Gray de Ruthin in 1440, his older brother Edmund inherited his estate. Thomas Gray was knighted before February 1441 . Despite his youth, he was on 25 June 1450 by Writ of Summons as Baron Richemount Gray in the Parliament appointed. his title was named after Ridgmount in Bedfordshire , which was owned by his brother. In 1455 he served as Justice of the Peace of Bedfordshire. He was a great-grandson of John of Gaunt through his grandmother Elizabeth Plantagenet and supported the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses . As a result of the defeat of Towton in March 1461, he was expropriated and ostracized in November 1461 , whereby his title of nobility was forfeited. He was captured and eventually executed.

Thomas Gray had married Margaret Ferrers († 1451/52) before February 14, 1446 , a daughter of William Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Groby . She was the widow of his distant cousin Richard Gray, 6th Baron Gray de Wilton . The marriage remained childless.

Web links

Thomas Gray, 1st Baron of Richemount Gray on thepeerage.com , accessed June 24, 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 359
^ R. Ian Jack: Gray family (per. 1325-1523). 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
↑ Cracroft's Peerage: Gray of Wilton, Baron (E, 1290 - forfeited 1603). Retrieved May 10, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gray, Thomas, 1st Baron Richemount Gray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gray, Thomas, 1st Baron Rougemont Gray; Gray, Thomas, 1st Baron Rugemont Gray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	December 1461

[1] 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. 359

[2] R. Ian Jack: Gray family (per. 1325-1523). 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

[3] Cracroft's Peerage: Gray of Wilton, Baron (E, 1290 - forfeited 1603). Retrieved May 10, 2018 .