[Illustration] Dugdale begins the pedigree of this great historical
family with Henry de Grey, unto whom King Richard the First in the
sixth year of his reign gave the manor of Turroc or Thurrock in
Essex. His son Richard was of Codnoure or Codnor in Derbyshire,
inherited from his mother, a coheiress of Bardolf. Groby and
Bradgate came from the heiress of Ferrers in the reign of Henry VI.
Of the latter Leland writes, "This parke was parte of the old Erles
of Leicester's landes, and since by heires generales it came to the
Lord Ferrers of Groby, and so to the Greyes."
Extinct Branches of this illustrious family were, the Greys of
Codnor, of Wilton, of Rotherfield, of Ruthyn, and the Dukes of Kent
and Suffolk.
See Dugdale's Baronage, i. 709; Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. pt.
2. 682; Brydges's Collins, iii. 340.
ARMS.--_Barry of six, argent and azure_. Richard de Grey bore this
coat in the reign of Henry III. John de Grey differenced it with _a
label gules_. In the reign of Edward II. the same arms were borne by
different members of the family, with the additions of _a bend
gules, a label gules, a label gules bezantée, a baton gules, and
three torteauxes in chief_, which last was used by the Dukes of
Suffolk.
Present Representative, George Harry Grey, seventh Earl of Stamford
and Warrington.