Sir Charles Le Grosse (c.1596 – 1650) of Crostwight Hall near North Walsham in Norfolk, England, was a politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1653.
[1][2] The chest tomb of Oliver le Gros (died 1435) survives in St Bartholomew's Church, Sloley,[3] displaying the arms of Le Gross: Quarterly argent and azure, on a bend sable three martlets or,[4] which also survive on the "Crostwight Flagon", a silver wine flagon made in 1585 by Peterson of Norwich, presented to Crostwight Church probably by Thomas Le Gross, now in Norwich Castle Museum.
[8] In 1658 Browne dedicated his Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial to Thomas Le Grosse, his eldest son.
He married Muriel Knyvet, a daughter of Sir Thomas Knyvet (died 1605) by his wife Elizabeth,[9] and by the marriage settlement he acquired a moiety of the manor of Eccles, which allowed him to hold courts there.
[9] By his wife he had two sons and six daughters,[10] including: The poet Ralph Knevet dedicated the following poem to him:[11] The King of Pyrrhus shewd the Muses nine And Phoebus portraited by sculpture fine: But thou faire Knight-hoods fairer ornament Conspicuously dost to our eyes present Phoebus, the Muses nine, the Graces three, Mercurie, and Mars, yea more Gods then bee In Homers Iliads; or at least much greater: For thy mind's a Pantheon, or a Theater, Wherein all vertues, and all graces stand, In decent order link'd, with hand in hand.