Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset
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The Most Honourable The Marquess of Dorset KG KB PC |
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Arms of Thomas Grey,
2nd Marquess of Dorset, KG |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Grey |
| Succeeded by | Henry Grey |
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| Born | 22 June 1477 |
| Died | 10 October 1530 (aged 53) |
| Spouse(s) | Eleanor St John Margaret Wotton |
| Children |
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk Edward Grey Lord Thomas Grey Lord John Grey Mary Grey Katherine Grey Elizabeth Grey Anne Grey |
| Parents |
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset Cecily Bonville, Baroness Harington and Bonville |
| Occupation | peer, courtier, soldier and landowner |
Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset KG KB PC (22 June 1477 – 10 October 1530) was an English peer, courtier, soldier and landowner.
Grey was the third son and eventual heir of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (c. 1456–1501), at that time England's only marquess, and his wife, Cecily Bonville, the daughter and heiress of William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington of Aldingham. His mother was suo jure 7th Baroness Harington of Aldingham and 2nd Baroness Bonville, and the richest heiress in England. The first marquess was the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, so a stepson of King Edward IV and a half-brother of Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward V.
According to some reports, the young Grey attended Magdalen College School, Oxford, and he is uncertainly said to have been taught (either at the school or else privately tutored) by the future Cardinal Wolsey.
Grey's father was opposed to King Richard III, and after the older Thomas joined Buckingham's failed rebellion of 1483, father and son fled to Brittany, joining Henry Tudor. Five months after Richard lost the crown to Henry at the Battle of Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485, the new king married the first Dorset's half-sister Elizabeth of York, but Henry VII was also suspicious of Dorset, who was imprisoned during Lambert Simnel's rebellion of 1487. In 1492, Dorset was required to give guarantees of loyalty to the crown and to make the young Thomas Grey a ward of the king.
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