Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane
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Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane (1479/1492 – 28 July 1541), known as Lord Leonard Grey prior to 1536, served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1536 to 1540.
On receiving instructions from King Henry VIII, Grey commanded an army which he led against Irish rebels who would not acknowledge Henry's supremacy as supreme head of the Church of England, and renounce the Pope. He was said to have been so cruel that he shortened the life of the Deputy, William Skeffington.[1] Grey was created Viscount Graney in the Peerage of Ireland on 2 January 1536.
Grey was accused of allowing the escape of his sister Elizabeth's son, the young Earl of Kildare to France in 1539, which he strenuously denied. Grey was nevertheless tried and attainted of high treason, and subsequently executed at the Tower of London on 28 July 1541 by the orders of Henry VIII.[2]
He was the son of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset and Cecily Bonville, Baroness Harington and Bonville. His wife was Eleanor Sutton, daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley and widow of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester.
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- ^ Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, vol. X, no. 298
- ^ Mary Ann Lyons, ‘Grey, Leonard , Viscount Graney (c.1490–1541)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- Hardiman's History of Galway: Chapter 4: From 1484 to the commencement of the Irish Rebellion in 1641
- The Church in Ireland during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. (1509-1553) from "History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution" by Rev. James MacCaffrey, S.J., 1914
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