[Illustration] This family is traced to John Gregory, Lord of the
manors of Freseley and Asfordby, in the county of Leicester, who
married Maud, daughter of Sir Roger Moton, of Peckleton, knight; his
son, Richard Gregory, of the same places, died in the year 1292.
Arthur Gregory, Esquire, the representative of this ancient family,
was seated at Styvechall, within the county of the city of Coventry,
of which his father, Thomas, died seized in the sixteenth of
Elizabeth.
See Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 19; and Dugdale's
Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 202.
ARMS.--_Or, two bars and in chief a lion passant azure_.
Present Representative, Arthur Francis Gregory, Esq.
GREVILLE OF WARWICK CASTLE, EARL BROOKE 1746, AND EARL OF WARWICK
1759; BARON 1620-1.
[Illustration] This family was founded by the wool-trade in the
fourteenth century by William Grevel, "+the flower of the wool
merchants of the whole realm of England,+" who died and was buried
at Campden, in Gloucestershire, in 1401. He it was who purchased
Milcote, in this county, long the seat of the elder line of this
family, who, after a succession of crimes, the particulars of which
may be seen in Dugdale's Warwickshire, became extinct in the
reign of James I. Fulke, second son of Sir Edward Greville of
Milcote, who died in the 20th of Henry VIII., having married
Elizabeth, one of the daughters and coheiress of Edward Willoughby,
only son of Robert Willoughby, Lord Brooke, became possessed of
Beauchamp's Court, in the parish of Alcester, inherited from her
grandmother Elizabeth, the eldest of the daughters and coheirs of
the last Lord Beauchamp of Powyke. This Fulke Greville was
grandfather of the more celebrated Sir Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke,
"servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and friend to
Sir Philip Sidney," who died in 1628. "The fanatic Brooke," killed
at Lichfield Close, was his cousin and successor, and ancestor of
the present family. The Castle of Warwick was granted to Sir Fulke
Greville by James I. in the second year of his reign.
Younger Branch. Greville of North Myms Place, in the county of
Hertford, and of Westmeath, in Ireland, descended from Algernon,
second son of Fulke 5th Lord Brooke.
See Leland's Itinerary, vol. iv. pt. i. fol. 16, vol. vi. fol. 19;
Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. pp. 706, 766; Brydges's Collins,
vol. iv. p. 330; and Edmondson's Account of the Greville Family,
8vo. 1766.
ARMS.--_Sable, on a cross engrailed or, five pellets within a border
engrailed of the second_. The present coat, with the addition of a
mullet in the first quarter, was borne by William Grevil, of
Campden, as appears by his brass, still in good preservation; his
son John differenced his arms with ten annulets, in lieu of the five
pellets; both were omitted by the Grevilles of Milcote.
Present Representative, George Guy Greville, 4th Earl of
Warwick.