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Sir Thomas Grenville (died 1513) was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1481 and 1486.[1] He was lord of the manors of Bideford in Devon and of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall.
He was the son and heir of Sir Thomas Grenville by his second wife Elizabeth Gorges, daughter of Theobald Gorges and sister of Sir Theobald Gorges. [2] Although little if anything at all survives in historical records concerning his biography, he was the descendant of a notable ancestor who took part in the Norman Conquest of Glamorgan, namely Sir Richard Grenville one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan who won for himself the Welsh lordship of Neath and in 1129 founded there Neath Abbey. Sir Thomas was himself ancestor to famous descendants, most notably his great-grandson Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591), the valiant captain of "The Revenge" and of Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643), MP and famous Civil War commander, father of John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628-1701). He was also the ancestor of the Grenville Marquesses of Buckingham, title created in 1784, and the Grenville Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, title created in 1822.
He married twice:[4]
By his first wife Isabel Gilbert he had issue including:[5]
A monument with recumbent effigy on a chest tomb exists of Sir Thomas Grenville in the Church of St Mary, Bideford. Inscribed on the Tudor arch above is the following Latin text:
His recumbent effigy is shown fully armed in a suit of Almain rivets and his feet rest on a dog. His hair is of chin-length and his hands are clasped in prayer holding a ball shaped object, possibly the Host. His head is inclined slightly to the south, as if looking towards the altar of the Lady Chapel. He wears a double chain around his neck. There are several heraldic escutcheons on the monument displaying the arms of Grenville: Gules, three clarions or. The monument is an important early source for use in deciphering the form of these mysterious and unexplained charges.
Bideford was the residence of the Grenville family from shortly after the Norman Conquest and Stowe in Cornwall was also a seat. Sit Thomas appears to have been one of the last of the family to reside chiefly at Bideford, if indeed the presence there of his effigy may be allowed to suggest that, and his descendants made Stowe their chief seat, whilst retaining ownership of Bideford until the family died out in the male line.
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From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Grenville_(d.1513)
Sir Thomas Grenville (M)
d. circa 1515, #979
Sir Thomas Grenville was the son of Thomas Grenville and Elizabeth Gorges. Sir Thomas Grenville married Isabel Gilbert, daughter of Otho Gilbert. Sir Thomas Grenville died circa 1515.
Children:
Sir Roger Greenville
Richard Greenville
Honor Greenville
Mary Greenville
Agnes Greenville
Catherine Greenville
Phillippa Greenville
Jane Greenville
Source 1. The American Genealogist: John Drakes English Connections-pg: 243;
Source 2: Internet: http://www.e-familytree.net:
ID: I120075
Name: Thomas GRENVILLE 1
Sex: M
Name: Thomas Grenville 2 3 4
Birth: ABT 1451 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England
Birth: ABT 1449 in Stow, , Cornwall, England 4
Birth: ABT 1453 in Of, Stow, Cornwall
Death: 18 MAR 1511/12 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England
Death: 18 MAR 1511/12 in Stow, , Cornwall, England 4
Death: 18 MAR 1511/12 in Stow, Cornwall 2
Change Date: 14 JAN 2004
Burial: Bideford, Devon, England 2
Note:
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Lord of Biddeford, Devon, and Kilkhampton, Stowe, Cornwall
Sheriff of Cornwall , 1480, 1485
Will Dated 9 March 1512/1513, probated 12 May 1514.
Source: Magn a Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Edition. By Frederick Lewis
Weis, Line 22, page 26
Father: Thomas GRANVILLE b: ABT 1426 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England
Mother: Elizabeth GORGES b: ABT 1431 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England
Father: Thomas Grenville b: 1417 in Stow, Cornwall, England
Mother: Alice Gorges b: ABT 1421 in Stow, Cornwall
Father: Thomas Grenville , Sir b: BET 1425 AND 1428 in Stow, Cornwall, England
Mother: Elizabeth GORGES b: ABT 1431 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England
Marriage 1 Johanna TOWSE
Married: 1
Marriage 2 Isabella Gilbert b: ABT 1456 in Of, Compton, Devonshire, England
Married: ABT 1473 in Of, Stowe, Cornwall, England 1
Married: ABT 1473 in Stow, Cornwall 2
Children
Richard GRENVILLE b: ABT 1473 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England
Honor GRENVILLE b: ABT 1476 in Of, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England
Roger GRENVILLE b: ABT 1477 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England
Mary GRANVILLE b: ABT 1478 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England
Agnes GRENVILLE b: ABT 1479 in Of, Stowe, Cornwall, England
Catherine GRENVILLE b: ABT 1480 in Of, Stowe, Cornwall, England
Phillipa GRENVILLE b: ABT 1486 in Of, Stow, Devonshire, England
Jane Grenville b: ABT 1474 in <, Stow, Cornwall, England>
Marriage 3 Jane HILL
Married: ABT 1491 in Of, Stow, Cornwall, England 1
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Baron Thomas Grenville, High sheriff of Cornwall
Gernville married twice. His first wife was Isabel Gilbert, daughter of Otes Gilbert of Compton Castle by his wife Elizabeth Hill, daughter of Robert Hill of Shilston. By her Thomas Grenville had two sons and six daughters:
- Sir Richard Grenville (c. 1495 – 1550), eldest son and heir. Entered the Inner Temple, with his brother John, in 1520; MP for Cornwall in 1529. He married Matilda Bevil, daughter and co-heiress of John Bevil of Gwarnock, St Allen, Cornwall. He was pre-deceased by his eldest son Roger Grenville (died 1545), captain of the Mary Rose when it sank in Portsmouth Harbour in 1545, whose son was the heroic Admiral Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591), Captain of the Revenge, MP for Cornwall, Sheriff of Cork from 1569–70, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1576–77, Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, privateer, colonizer, and explorer.
- John Grenville (c. 1506 – c. 1562), 2nd son. Entered the Inner Temple, with his brother Richard, in 1520.three times MP for Exeter, in 1545, 1554 and 1558. In 1534 he purchased the reversion of the office of a Serjeant-at-Arms, which office he performed for King Henry VIII from 1535. He was a servant successively of Sir Thomas More and Lord Chancellor Thomas Audley. He married Lettice Lucas, daughter of Thomas Lucas of Suffolk.
- Diggory Grenville, 3rd son, some of whose correspondence, in connection with his management of his aunt Honor Grenville's manor of Umberleigh, survives in the Lisle Papers.
Richard Grenville, pre-deceased his father, unmarried.
Grenville's second wife was the widow of a certain "Hill de Taunton". By her he had two further children, John, who was appointed by his father rector of Kilkhampton in 1524, in which office he remained until 1580; and Jane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Grenville_(died_1513)
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
Granville, Roger, (Rector of Bideford), History of the Granville Family Traced Back to Rollo, First Duke of the Normans, With Pedigrees etc., Exeter, 1895, pp. 68–9
Vivian, J.L., ed. (1887). The Visitations of Cornwall: comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian. Exeter: W. Pollard, p.12, Pedigree of Arundell of Trerice
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64480586/thomas-grenville
Actual place of birth is:Stowe, Kirkhampton, Cornwall, England.
Son of Sir Thomas Grenville, Lord of Bideford, and his second wife, Elizabeth Gorges. Husband of Isabella Gilbert, the daughter of Otho Gilbert of Compton and Elizabeth Hill. They had the following children:
Sir Thomas was a Knight of Bath.
The above was submitted by Find a Grave contributor, Anne Shurtleff Stevens on 5 May 2014.
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