Elizabeth Grenville (Gorges)

Primary Sources

In 1453, Thomas Grenville and Elizabeth his wife, grant to John Rede, all that his land in Bideford, which John Bishop and others held, by grant of William Hankford, knight, John Hankeford, Richard Geynvyle, William Freye, and Richard Conyan, parson of the church of Lytheham. Dated at Bydeford, Sunday before the Conversion of St Paul, 31 Hen. VI [21 January 1453].

Other Sources

'Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L. & Drake, Henry H., (Eds.), The Visitation of the County of Cornwall in the Year 1620. London, 1874, p.84 pedigree of Grenville
www.celtic-casimir.com

Elizabeth GORGES
Married: By 21 Jan 1452/3 Died: Abt 1470

General Notes:

Relationship to Compiler: 16 x great-grandmother

Research Notes:

Sources vary in showing Elizabeth as either daughter or sister of Theobald Gorges. Based on dates, the latter does not seem possible.

Marriage Information:

Elizabeth married Sir Thomas GRENVILE, Lord of Bideford, son of William GRENVILLE, Lord of Kilkhampton, and Philippa BONVILLE, by 21 Jan 1452/3. (Thomas GRENVILE was born in Jacobstow, Cornwall and died in 1483.)

Sources:

Collections for a Parochial History of Wraxall, by the the Rev. George S. Master, M.A., p. 15