Grey, Richard (1478 - 1523)

Biographical Overview

Parents

Titles - 3
Properties - 8
Total events naming patron - 13
Troupes - 3
Bibliographic Sources - 4
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Born / Died

Birth Date: ca. 1478
Death Date: 1523-05-03

Primary Title

13th Earl of Kent

Titles

  • 6th Baron Grey of Ruthin
    Assumed 1503-12-16
    Vacated 1523-05-03
  • 13th Earl of Kent
    Assumed 1503-12-16
    Vacated 1523-05-03
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed 1505-04-22 (date nominated)
    Vacated 1523-05-03

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
JP, Oxfordshire 1498 1510
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Bedfordshire 1502 n.d.
JP, Bedfordshire 1504 1514
JP, Buckinghamshire 1504 1507
JP, Huntingdonshire 1504 1509

General Lands Note

Licence to enter lands 7 Sept. 1504. Sold most of the lands he inherited from his father

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Lombard Street, London (city-county)
    House at the sign of the George

Lands

  • Bedfordshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cheshire
  • Hampshire
  • Norfolk
  • Northamptonshire
  • Suffolk

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1505-1506 Dover (Unknown), Dover , Kent Earl of Kent's Bearward
Performance 1517-1517 Lydd (Unknown), Lydd , Kent Earl of Kent's Bearward
Performance 1517-1518 Dover (Unknown), Dover , Kent Earl of Kent's Bearward
Performance 1519-1520 Rye (Unknown), Rye , Sussex Earl of Kent's Bearward
Performance 1520-1521 Lydd (Unknown), Lydd , Kent Earl of Kent's Bearward
Performance 1520-1521 Rye (Unknown), Rye , Sussex Earl of Kent's Bearward
Performance 1521-1521 Dover (Unknown), Dover , Kent Earl of Kent's Bearward
Performance 1523-1523 Dover (Unknown), Dover , Kent Earl of Kent's Bearward
Performance 1516-1517 Rye (Unknown), Rye , Sussex Earl of Kent's Bearward/s
Performance 1518-1519 New Romney (Unknown), New Romney , Kent Earl of Kent's Bearwards
Performance 1518-1519 Lydd (Unknown), Lydd , Kent Earl of Kent's Bearwards
Performance 1519-1520 Chichester (Unknown), Chichester , Sussex Earl of Kent's Bearwards
Performance 1520-1521 Sandwich (Unknown), Sandwich , Kent Earl of Kent's Bearwards

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Earl of Kent's Bearward Grey, Richard (1478 - 1523) Performing Animals 8
Earl of Kent's Bearward/s Grey, Richard (1478 - 1523) Performing Animals 1
Earl of Kent's Bearwards Grey, Richard (1478 - 1523) Performing Animals 4

Bibliographic Sources

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Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII [1485–1509]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1914–16.
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.
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509–47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864–1932.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)