Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. LOL. Coombe Hill, once part of the estate, is located two-thirds of a mile (1.1 km) northeast. In a period when external appearance was considered an important aspect of kingship, her physical disability made Mary unlikely to be . But following her execution in 1587 Elizabeth protected the interests of her son, James VI of Scotland. The Queen granted her an imposing funeral in Westminster Abbey,[23] with the Duchess of Suffolk's daughter Susan Bertie, now Countess of Kent, as chief mourner. President Eisenhower (left) and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan walking in the grounds of Chequers, 29 August 1959. When King Edward VI died on 6 July 1553, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, attempted to put Mary's eldest sister, Jane, whom he had married to his son, Guildford Dudley, on the throne. But Henry VIII had excluded the Stuart line of his elder sister Margaret from the succession and in their stead placed the heirs of his younger sister, Mary Rose Tudor grandmother of the Greys. And one year later, Mary was transferred again, this time to live with a famously cranky guy named Sir Thomas Gresham. Wikipedia (13 entries) edit. Because he was a stalwart and truehearted person, he wrote polite letters to the Queen asking permission to get to live with Mary again, but Elizabeth was likeno way. Its a major public interest story. Geni requires JavaScript! Mary did not stay long at Beaumanor. [18] With Katherine Grey's death, Mary was brought to relative prominence as the last surviving grandchild of Mary Tudor. Ive always been interested with Henry VIII, his wives, that era, etc. Sure enough, in 1575, Elizabeth gave Mary Grey some of the income from her family property that the crown had been taking this whole time which meant: Mary Grey now had enough money not just to survive, but to thrive! According to De Lisle, the records of Mary's funeral had lain in obscurity since her death until they were rediscovered by De Lisle in connection with research for her book on the Grey sisters. Chequers Manuscripts. Will do some further research on the topic. Mary was therefore sent, in June 1569, to live with Sir Thomas Gresham at his house in Bishopsgate and later at his country house at Osterley. Mary had two sisters, Lady Jane Grey, the 'nine days Queen', and Lady Katherine Grey. (Lady Dacre), the portrait of Queen Mary from ca 1555 (now in the offices of the Society of Antiquaries, London), of Mary Dudley . And everything was great for like, twelve months! She was stuck in a twelve-foot room in a country house called Chequers, which is fun fact still used today as a residence for the Prime Minister. Mary Grey saved up her pennies, because she was also great with financial management, and after just one year was able to pay for her own house and the servants to work in it. The somewhat miscellaneous material covered by this catalogue consists as follows: (a) Title deeds, etc., formerly kept in the Admiralty Chest (item 148 in the published 1923 Catalogue) at Chequers and listed in the Historical . Downstairs, leading straight out of the great hall, the President will have his study in the white drawing room, a room overlooking the rose garden (where Peace is prominent among the varieties grown) hung about with small Constables and smelling violently of lavender. In 1577, Mary Grey got her goal when Elizabeth I appointed her Maid of Honor to the Queen the same gig Maryd had back in the day for Queen Mary I. Elizabeth was like, Thing is, you have to use your maiden name and cant ever mention anything about ever being married because you werent ever married, were you? And Mary was like, Married? When Frances died on November 20, 1559, she left a life estate in most of her property to Stokes, while Mary received only a small inheritance yielding a modest income of 20 a year. To accept Elizabeths right is to accept Katherine and Marys rights in line of succession. Despite the disastrous consequences of her sister Katherine's secret marriage, Mary, too, married without the Queen's permission. The Queen granted her an imposing funeral in Westminster Abbey, with the Duchess of Suffolk's daughter, Susan Bertie, now Countess of Kent, as the chief mourner. Mary had two sisters, Lady Jane Grey and Lady Katherine Grey. Described by the Spanish ambassador as crook-backed and very ugly, Mary was so small it has been conjectured she was a dwarf. Mary Grey, born about 20 April 1545, was the third and youngest daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Lady Frances Brandon, daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Mary Tudor, the younger of the two daughters of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. But while Katherine had died in despair in 1568, Mary survived to be freed in 1573. She was the daughter of Frances Brandon and Henry Grey. All so tasty and a very friendly . On 16 July 1565,[8] while the Queen was absent attending the marriage of her kinsman, Sir Henry Knollys[9] (d. 21 December 1582), and Margaret Cave, the daughter of Sir Ambrose Cave,[10] Mary secretly married the Queen's serjeant porter, Thomas Keyes, son of Richard Keyes, esquire, of East Greenwich, Kent, by Agnes Saunders, the daughter of Henry Saunders of Ewell, Surrey. Queen Elizabeth I herself ordered Lady Mary Grey's confinement when she learned that Lady Grey had married without her family's consent. Chequers Trust; (c) The Chequers Trust; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation As the ceremony had been performed by a priest who was never subsequently identified, and the only witness was Seymour's sister, Lady Jane Seymour, who died shortly after the marriage, the Queen was able to treat the marriage as though it had never taken place and on 12 March 1563 she obtained a declaration that the marriage was invalid and that Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, Katherine's eldest son by Seymour, was illegitimate. Her room, known as the Prison Room still carries drawings and writing done by Mary, probably out of sheer boredom, because she was blocked from having any guests and had all money confiscated as well. I wonder how Marys life can be summed up as lovely. I always read your essays Ann, love them. This was an era in which religion and superstition were closely entwined, and it was a common belief that if you were a sinner, it would be visible somehow in your body. Description: Title deeds, estate records, family papers, etc., for the Chequers Court estate. Modern scholarship, especially that of Susan Foister, supports identifying the lady as Margaret Wotton Grey, wife of the 2nd Marquess of Dorset and mother of Henry Grey. The birth of Lady Jane Grey. Her mother, Frances, was the daughter of Henry VIII 's younger sister Mary Tudor . Books: they will never desert you in your time of need. Lady Mary Josephine Talbot (ne Crawley; b. Despite the intrigues involving her sisters, it does not appear that Mary Grey ever made a serious claim to the throne. He asked to retire with Mary to Kent, but this was refused. Arbella was a descendant of Margaret Tudor, eldest sister of King Henry VIII. Read more at Wikipedia. Doran states the marriage took place on 10 or 12 August. But there she lies still, surrounded by the kings from whom she was descended and the queens whose rivals the sisters once were. In 1553, at the same time as the weddings of her sisters Lady Jane and Lady Katherine, Lady Mary, still very young, had been betrothed to her distant cousin Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton. Beldgate Hall, Northumberland, England (United Kingdom), The Barbican, Red Cross Street, London, England, London, Middlesex, England (United Kingdom), The Court of Elizabeth l, Queen of England, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, Capt. Lady Mary Grey was still in contention, but there were other women who others were supporting, most notable Mary, Queen of Scots, the Catholic descendant of Henry VIIIs estranged sister Margaret. Lady Mary remained at Chequers for a period of two years. But, as ever, Queen Elizabeth found out about the ceremony pretty much right away likely helped by the fact that Mary Grey and Thomas had invited like dozens of people for a post-ceremony dinner banquet like, way to keep it on the down low, you two. Mary remained in the Duchess' household for almost two years and is said to have been close to the Duchess's two children, Peregrine and Susan Bertie. The "cell" where she slept from 1565 to 1567 is still kept in its original condition. I just removed that line. It is about 40 miles(64 km) north-west of central London. A granddaughter of Henry VII, after the death of her Protestant cousin Edward VI, her ambitious father-in-law the Duke of Northumberland proclaimed her queen. Yet, just six months later, Katherine and Mary Grey were invited back to royal court, and their familys money and property were restored. She now posed the principle danger to Elizabeth. Mary took the precaution of having three of her cousins attend as witnesses, her childhood friend, Mary Willoughby and two of the daughters of Lady Stafford. The offence is very great'. Strictly speaking he had broken the terms of the trust, he said, in letting journalists in at all, but Mr Eisenhowers visit was something quite extraordinary. [25], In spite of the intrigues involving her sisters, it does not appear that Mary Grey ever made a serious claim to the throne. Perhaps the new PM will pay her a visit. Please respect your own vast knowledge of history and writing talent enough not to rely on vulgarities or slang to make your work appealing (which is, I assume, why you do it). Like so many of these stories, were going to start out with a family tree. In 1574, she sent a New Years gift to her cousin Queen Elizabeth I and Elizabeth accepted it! Similar to the ancient Roman Emperor Claudius (of I, Claudius fame), those around her likely underestimated her intelligence due to their preconceptions of what her physical features meant. [13] The marriage was an unsuitable one for many reasons. Catherine's mother, Frances Brandon, was the eldest daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor, the younger sister of King Henry VIII. Finally, after they deduced that the right time would never come to ask permission, they went the beg forgiveness route and got secret married in August 1565, when Mary Grey was about 20 years old. This was all theoretical, though, as when Henry died, his teen son Edward became King and if anything happened to him, Henrys own daughters Mary and Elizabeth would come next in the line of succession. Sister of Son Grey, died young; N.N. Grey-207. And these two were, for sure, because why else would they specifically go behind the Queens back to get married? Her short stature is often commented upon, and given that due to nutrition most people of this time period were under five feet, Mary would have had to be quite a bit shorter than that for her size to be so significant to others. 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