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Cancelled betrothal

Be­fore 1530, Grey was be­trothed to Cather­ine FitzA­lan, the daugh­ter of William FitzA­lan, 18th Earl of Arun­del, whom he later re­fused to marry.

Marriage to Lady Frances Brandon

In 1533, with the per­mis­sion of King Henry VIII he mar­ried Lady Frances Bran­don (1517–1559), the daugh­ter of Charles Bran­don, 1st Duke of Suf­folk by his wife Mary Tudor, the sis­ter of King Henry VIII. They had three daugh­ters: 1. Lady Jane Grey(1537–1554) 2. Lady Katherine Grey(1540–1568) 3. Lady Mary Grey(1545–1578)

Henry VIII's reign

Henry Grey be­came the 3rd Mar­quess of Dorset in 1530 fol­low­ing the death of his fa­ther. Be­fore Henry VIII's death in 1547, Grey be­came a fix­ture in court cir­cles. A knight of the Bath, he was the king's sword bearer at Anne Bo­leyn's coro­na­tion in 1533, at Anne of Cleves' ar­rival in 1540, and at the cap­ture of Boulogne in 1545. Twice he bore the Cap of Main­te­nance in par­lia­ment. He helped lead the army in France in 1545. In 1547 he joined the Order of the Garter.

Edward VI's reign

After Henry VIII's death in 1547, Grey fell out of favour with the leader of King Ed­ward VI's gov­ern­ment, Ed­ward Sey­mour, 1st Duke of Som­er­set and Lord Pro­tec­tor of Eng­land. Re­turn­ing to his home in Bradgate, Leices­ter­shire, Grey con­cen­trated on rais­ing his fam­ily to greater heights. Thus, with the Pro­tec­tor's brother Thomas, Lord Sey­mour, Grey con­spired to have his daugh­ter Janemar­ried to the King. This plot failed, end­ing in Sey­mour's ex­e­cu­tion, but Grey emerged...

Henry Grey was best known for his zeal for the Protes­tant faith. The Swiss re­former Hein­rich Bullingerded­i­cated a book to him in 1551 and fre­quently cor­re­sponded with the fam­ily. In Par­lia­ment and on the Privy Coun­cil, Grey pushed for fur­ther Protes­tant re­forms. He is cred­ited with mak­ing Leices­ter­shire one of the most re­li­ably...

Se­ri­ously ill, and fear­ing his own death, King Ed­ward VI granted Northum­ber­land's re­quest for the mar­riage of Suf­folk's daugh­ter Lady Jane Grey to Northum­ber­land's son, Lord Guild­ford Dud­ley, on 25 May 1553. Ed­ward later al­tered his will to make Jane his des­ig­nated suc­ces­sor. Ed­ward died on 6 July 1553, and three days later Suf...

Ac­cord­ing to Wal­ter George Bell (writ­ing in 1920), the sev­ered head of the Duke was dis­cov­ered in a vault in the Church of Holy Trin­ity, Mi­nories in Lon­don in 1851, pre­served by the tan­nin-rich oak saw­dust used to pad the bas­ket on the scaf­fold on which he had been ex­e­cuted 297 years ear­lier. Bell be­lieved the head might have bee...