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Birth:          ABT 1371 Codnor, Derbyshire, England
Death:          1 Aug 1418 possibly in France
Burial:         Aylesford, Kent, England

Notes
www.tudorplace.com.ar/GREY1.htm
Knight of the Garter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Grey_of_Codnor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grey,_4th_Baron_Grey_of_Codnor
Richard Grey, 1st or 4th Baron Grey of Codnor[note 1] KG (c.?1371 – 1 August 1418)
[3] was an English soldier and diplomat.
Military and diplomatic service[edit]

In 1400 he was appointed Admiral of the king's fleet from the Thames to the north, 
and in the same year was made Governor of Roxburgh Castle. In 1402 he was one of 
the commissioners appointed to treat with Owain Glyndwr for the release of Reginald 
Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn. He was appointed justice of South Wales in 1403, a 
position he held until 1407, and from 1404 to 1413 served as Chamberlain of the 
Household.[3] In 1405 Grey submitted certain considerations on the state of Wales to 
the king and council and on 2 December he was appointed Lieutenant of South 
Wales, and held the post till 1 February 1406. In 1405 Grey was also engaged in a 
controversy with Henry Beaumont, 5th Baron Beaumont as to which of them was 
entitled to precedency, the earliest record of such a dispute between two barons. In 
this year he also acted as Marshal during the absence of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of 
Westmorland, in 1406 was a commissioner to receive fines from the Welsh rebels, in 
1407 became Constable of Nottingham Castle and Ranger of Sherwood Forest, and in 
1413 Governor of Fronsac in Aquitaine.

From 1412 he was constantly employed on diplomatic missions. In 1413 he was one of 
the ambassadors to treat for a marriage between Henry, Prince of Wales, and Anne, 
daughter of John, Duke of Burgundy. Next year he was one of those appointed to 
procure a prolongation of the truce with France, and one of the ambassadors to 
negotiate a marriage between Henry V and Catherine of France. In August 1415 he 
was employed to negotiate a truce with Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, regent of 
Scotland, and shortly after was made Warden of the Eastern Marches. In 1418 he was 
Governor of the Castle of Argentan in Normandy.

Grey was summoned to parliament from 17 September 1397, and was made a Knight of 
the Garter in about 1404.

He died on 1 August 1418, possibly in France, and was buried at Aylesford Priory in 
Kent.[3]

Family[edit]

Grey was the son of Henry de Grey (died 1379), and succeeded his grandfather John 
de Grey (1305–1392) to the Grey of Codnor barony. In 1387 he married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Ralph Basset of Sapcote, who died after 1446 and they had two sons and 
three daughters: John (c.?1396–1430), who succeeded as fifth baron; Henry (c.?
1405–1443), who succeeded his brother as sixth baron; Elizabeth, who married John 
Zouche; Eleanor, who married Thomas Newport; and Lucy, who married Rowland 
Lenthall.[4] The barony fell into abeyance between the three sisters following the 
death of the seventh baron; the termination of the abeyance in 1989 was granted in 
the favour of a descendant of Lucy.[1][2]

Parents
DE GREY Henry (ABT 1331 - 1379)
DE COBHAM Joan (ABT 1340 - )

Siblings
DE GREY Richard (ABT 1371 - 1 Aug 1418)

Marriage To BASSETT Elizabeth (ABT 1370 - AFT 1446)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
BASSETT Ralph (ABT 1340 - 1378)
DERBY Alice (ABT 1340 - )

Children by BASSETT Elizabeth ABT 1370 - AFT 1446
DE GREY Eleanor (ABT 1400 - )

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