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 100 GREY. or Cherleton de POWTS] sue. his father on 15 Jan. 1449/50, being then aged 14 years ; appears to have been the " Dominus de Powcs " (tho then under age) who in 33 Henry VI. (1154-55), took oath in Pail, to the King (Rot. Pari. V. 283) in which year also "Richard, Lord Pom/t," as one of the "cousins and heirs of the Earl of Kent " petitions the King in Pari. [Rot. Pari V. 313.) Being a zealous Yorkist he after their flight, on 120ct. 1450, from Ludlow was attainted that year by the Pari, at Coventry. In all probability he received a writ of summons as a Baron from Ed. IV., soon after his accession. He appears to have been present in the House of Lords as Lord Powis (iritis de. roiecs) on 12 Dec. (14.01), 1 Ed. IV.( a ) He m., about 1455, Margaret,( b ) da. of James (Tithet), Lord Audley [140S-59J, by his second wife, Constance, formerly Constance Holand, spinster. He d. Dec. 146(1. II 1466, ■' or JonN Grey, jeudal Lord of Powys, and, or or perhaps, actually Lord Powys, s. and h., aged six years at his I 14S 9 father's death, obtained livery of his lauds 1180. If not a Peer by inheritance he became one by creation, being sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD GREY DE POWIS) by writs directed " Johanni Grey dc Poicel " from 15 Nov. 1482, to 16 Jan. 1496/7. He m. (the intention beiug declared in July 1468 when lie was but eight years old) Anne, da. of William (Herbert), 1st Earl of Pembroke, by Anne, da. of Sir Walter Deveueux. He d. 1497. III or II. 1497. 3 or 2. John (G hey), Lord Grey de Powls, s. and h. He hi. Margaret, da. of Edward (Sutton), Loud Dudley,^) by Cicely, da. of Sir William Willouohby. He d-, aged but 19, in 1504. IV or III. 1504, 4 or &• Edward (Grey), Lord Grey de Powis, to only s. and h. He was sum. to Pari, by writs directed 1551. " Edicardo Urey dc Powis, Cld'r" from 2 Nov. (1529), 21 Hen. VIIL, to it is presumed (some months after his death) 23 Jan. (1531/2), 5 Ed. VL.tho'iuDugdale's" Summons " the Baron who was thus sum. in 21 and 25 Hen. ViiL is called " John." In 1523 he accompanied the Duke of Suffolk to France and was knighted by him in that year at Roy. In 1537 the King granted to him the Abbey of Buildwas in Shropshire with all its possessions. He m. Anne, (illegit ?) da. of Charles (Brandon), Dckk ok SUFFOLK, by Anne (afterwards 1) his 2d wife, da. of Sir Anthony Browne. He (/. s.p. legit. 2 July (1551), 5 Ed. VI., when his peerage dignity, if originating in the writ of 1482 to his grandfather, became extinct, but, if of an earlier date, fell into abeyance. His will, dat- 11 June 1544 (codicil 10 Aug. 1519) leaves his estates (failing his lawful issue) subject to certain life interests therein, to Edward Grey, his bastard son. Will pr. 10 July 1551, and confirmed 22 Nov. 1552. His widow who, tho' in her will she calls herself da. and coheir of Charles, Duke of Suffolk, was apparently born before her parents' marriage, m. Handle HaNworth, " Esquire." She d. s.p. and was bur. 13 Jan. 1557/8 (with great pomp) at Westminster Abbey. Will dat. 29 Oct. 1551, pr. by her said husband 19 Feb. 1557/8. [Almost immediately after the death of this Peer " certain claims were raised by the family of Vernon upon the merits of which a mystery [hung and] has continued to hang." These appeared first to have been as to property, but developed (■') See p. 310 of an able article on " the feudal Barons of Powys " by Morris C. Jones in the "Montgomeryshire Collections " (vol. i, 1868, pp. 257—313.) From that article and the review thereof by J. G. Nichols in the " Her. and Gen." (vol. vi, pp. 97—124) as well as from the " Additions to Dugdale's Baronage " iu tho " Coll. Top", et Gen." (vo. viii, pp. 1S3— 185) this article on Urey dc Powis is chiefly compiled. (*>) This Margaret is said by the Kynaston family to hare been relict of one Vaughan, by whom she had two daughters, whereof one (she having no such da. by Lord Grey) was the ancestress of the Vernon family, their rival claimants.