GRENVILLE, Richard I (by 1495-1550), of Stowe in Kilkhampton, Cornw.

Family and Education

b. by 1495, 1st s. of Roger Grenville, and bro. of John. m. Matilda, da. and coh. of John Bevill of Gwarnock in St. Allen, Cornw., 2s. 3da. suc. fa. 7 July 1523. Kntd. aft. 3 Nov. 1529.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., C142/40/22, 44/103. Vis. Cornw. ed. Vivian, 191; Paroch. Hist. Cornw. 373.

Offices Held

Sewer, privy chamber by 1523; commr. subsidy, Cornw. 1523, 1524, 1547, musters 1546; sheriff, Cornw. July – Nov. 1523, 1526 – 27, 1544 – 45, Devon 1532 – 33; j.p. Cornw. 1524 – d., Devon, Exeter 1535 – 47; steward of Devon lands, Bodmin priory, Frithelstock abbey, of Cornish lands, Hartland abbey by 1535; marshal, Calais Oct. 1535-Oct. 1540.LP Hen. VIII, iii, iv, viii, ix, xxi; CPR, 1547–8, p. 82; E179/87/185, m. 1; D. H. Pill, ‘The diocese of Exeter under Bp. Veysey’ (Exeter Univ. M.A. thesis, 1967), 199; A. L. Rowse, Sir Richard Grenville, 29.

Parlimentarian

GRENVILLE, Richard I (by 1495-1550), of Stowe in Kilkhampton, Cornw.

Main residence: Stowe in Kilkhampton, Cornw.

Author

J.J.G.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

GRENVILLE, Richard I (by 1495-1550)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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