Richard Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Codnor

Richard was one of the barons who at the assembly of Stamford on 6 August 1309, signed a letter of remonstrance to the pope on the abuses in the church.

[2] Together with John Giffard and Robert de Shirland, they testified to the claim of Bartholomew Badlesmere that Despenser, the younger was a traitor.

Richard served with the royal army, which pursued the rebels under the command of Thomas of Lancaster to the north of England.

[5] Gray resigned this office, in October 1324, serving Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent during the war in Gascony.

In 1326, Richard was Constable of Nottingham Castle and in 1327 he was employed in the Scotch marches, and was summoned for the Scottish war in 1334, but was excused on the ground of sickness.