Lord John Grey (Tudor nobleman)

[3] By his wife he had three sons and four daughters including: Grey was appointed Lord Deputy of Newhaven (now Le Havre) in France[4] in charge of the English fortress then being strengthened and given extra storage facilities.

Lord John then received grants from Edward VI of the rectory of Kirby Bellars and other estates such as Bardon Park in Leicestershire, and in his ancestral home county of Derbyshire as well as in Nottinghamshire, affirmed by Queen Mary.

[citation needed] Lord John Grey and his brothers became involved in Wyatt's Rebellion which proposed to replace Catholic Queen Mary with her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth for which he was condemned to death.

[citation needed] Lord John's niece, Katherine, Lady Jane Grey's younger sister and heiress presumptive under the Will of Henry VIII, had married secretly Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford in 1560 without royal assent.

His now lost monument there was described in Collins' Peerage of England, published 1812, as follows:[citation needed] The arms of the head of the Grey family are blazoned Barry of six argent and azure in chief three torteaux gules.