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Grey, Katherine (1540 - 1567/8)

Other Last Name

Herbert, Seymour

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1540-08
Death Date: 1568-01-27

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: exactly 1553-5-25
    Union ended: after 1553-7-19
    Note: This union was never consummated; the patron's father, William Herbert, 20th Earl of Pembroke, had the marriage annulled after the accession of Mary
  2. Type: marriage
    Union began: ca. 1560-12
    Union ended: exactly 1562-5-12
    Note: The marriage was secret and occurred either in Nov. or Dec. of this year; an ecclesiastical high commission declared the marriage invalid and the son Edward illegitimate on 12 May 1562; union legitimized 1606

Siblings

Female

  • Grey, Jane (1537 - 1553/4)
  • Grey, Mary (1545 - 1578)

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Details of Offices

Bibliographic Sources

  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.