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Grey was created Viscount Grane in the Peerage of Ireland on 2 January 1536, but never assumed the title. He was active in marching against the rebels and he presided over the parliament of 1536, but he was soon at variance with the powerful family of the Butlers and with some of the privy councillors, including the highly influential John ...
d. 28 July 1541. Last Edited=10 Apr 2004. Leonard Gray, 1st Viscount Grane married Eleanor Sutton, daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Lord Dudley and Cicely Willoughby, after 1526. [1] He died on 28 July 1541 at Tower Hill, The City, London, England, executed, without issue. [1] He was created 1st Viscount Grane in 1536.
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and Cecily Bonville, dau. of Sir William Bonville, Lord Harington. He was created Viscount Grane [co. Carlow, Ireland] on 02 January 1535/6. Known as Lord Leonard Grey prior to 1536, he served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1536 to 1540.
Grey, Leonard, 1st Viscount Grane [I] (1490–1541). Grey was one of many who perished in the mire of Tudor Ireland. He was a younger son of the 1st marquis of Dorset. His grandmother was Elizabeth, queen of Edward IV, and his nephew's daughter was Lady Jane Grey. A tough soldier, he was sent to command in Ireland in 1535, where Thomas ...
In the meantime Grey had been created a viscount in the Irish peerage in October 1535 (and taken his title from the dissolved nunnery of Grane in Co. Kildare which had been granted to him in June), elected lord justice by the Irish Council on 1 January 1536, on the death of Sir William Skeffington (qv), and appointed lord deputy by the king on 23 February 1536.
He went to Ireland as marshal of the English army in 1535, being created an Irish peer as Viscount Grane in the same year, but he never assumed this title. In 1536 Grey was appointed lord deputy of Ireland in succession to Sir William Skeffington ; he was active in marching against the rebels and he presided over the important.
Leonard Grey, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1479/1492 – 28 July 1541), known as Lord Leonard Grey prior to 1536, served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1536 to 1540.
