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Groby was mentioned in Domesday Book of 1086, when it was described as having " land for 4 ploughs, 10 villagers with 1 Freeman and 5 smallholders have 3 ploughs ... the value was 20s ; now 60s.
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Elizabeth's first husband was Sir John Grey of Groby whom she married in about 1452.
Her first husband, Sir John Grey of Groby was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans.
In about 1452, she married Sir John Grey of Groby, who was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461, fighting for the Lancastrian cause, which would become a source of irony as Edward IV was the Yorkist claimant to the throne.
Thomas Grey, 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, and 1st Marquess of Dorset, KG ( c. 1455 – 20 September 1501 ), was an English nobleman, courtier and the eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville and her first husband John Grey of Groby.
Thomas was born in about 1455 at Groby Old Hall in the village of Groby, Leicestershire, as the elder son of Sir John Grey and his wife Elizabeth Woodville, who later became queen consort to King Edward IV of England.
He was born at Salwarpe in Worcestershire, the son of Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick, and Margaret, daughter of William Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Groby.
He was a keen footballer in his childhood and played for Ratby Groby Juniors, a local youth team in Leicester.
It was subsequently acquired by the Beaumont family, passing to the de Quincy family and on to William de Ferrers of Groby.
A parker, living in a moated house, was the only occupant, maintaining stocks of deer for the lord of Groby Manor to hunt.
In 1563 the family regained favour, and the Groby manor, including Bradgate, was restored to Jane's Uncle, Lord John Grey of Pirgo.
( He was half-first cousin-both being grandsons of Reynold 3rd Lord Grey of Ruthin-to Queen Elizabeth's first husband, Sir John Grey of Groby.
He was the only son of Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby, and inherited his title from his grandfather.
Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby ( c. 1623 – 1657 ), was an elected Member of Parliament for Leicester during the English Long Parliament, an active member of the Parliamentary party and a regicide.
Thomas Grey was born in 1623 to Henry Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Groby and Anne Cecil daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter.
He spent most of his youth in the Bradgate House, construction of which was begun by a late ancestor of his ; Sir John Grey of Groby, and in Groby Manor.
In 1628 Thomas at the age of five acquired the courtesy title of Lord Grey of Groby when his father was created the 1st Earl of Stamford.
On 16 January 1643, Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby was appointed commander-in-chief of the midland counties association and then ordered to take special care of Nottingham during the second Civil War.
Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford ( c. 1599 – 21 August 1673 ), known as the Lord Grey of Groby from 1614 to 1628, was an English nobleman and military leader.
Grey was the younger son of Sir John Grey of Groby and Elizabeth Woodville, later Queen Consort of King Edward IV.
The southern side is dominated by new housing estates, built upon what was formerly farming land between the historic part of Groby and the neighbouring village of Glenfield.
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Her anxiety increases when a man from Trantridge, named Groby, recognizes her while she is out shopping with Angel and crudely alludes to her sexual history.
The village's name originates from the relocation of people when the Ferrers family of Groby turned Bradgate into a deer park.
The peerage title Baron Ferrers of Groby ( or Baron Ferrers de Groby ) was created in the Peerage of England by Writ on December 29, 1299 when William Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby was summoned to parliament.
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These are known locally as granite, ( geologically they were formerly described as markfieldite ), and are quarried commercially at Groby and Markfield.
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Swithland Wood has been a public woodland since the 1920s, having previously been part of the estate of the manor of Groby.
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In 1378 Sir Nicholas de Harrington held land subsequently held by Lord Ferrers of Groby and Thomas Harrington.
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In other cases mottes, such as that at Groby Castle, were reused as the bases for dramatic follies, or alternatively entirely new castle follies could be created ; either from scratch or by reusing original stonework, as occurred during the building of Conygar Tower for which various parts of Dunster Castle were cannibalised.
This is extensively quarried for roadstone around Groby, Markfield and Whitwick, and is known as granite ( formerly also called Markfieldite )..
* Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby ( c. 1623-1657 ), Member of Parliament for Leicester.
They were looking for Groby Castle.
Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby became MP for Leicester in 1641 and fought on the side of Parliament in the English Civil War.
Feeding the ducks at Groby Pool has long been a tradition for local people.
It was created in 1628 for Henry Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Groby.
He travels to Groby Park in Yorkshire, where Joseph Mason the younger lives with his comically parsimonious wife, and persuades Mason to have Lady Mason prosecuted for forgery.
Glenfield was built as a replacement for the old Groby Road Hospital, which was located about 500m up the road at Heathley Park ( now a housing estate ).
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* Kirby Muxloe-Village with unfinished castle of Lord Hastings, 3 miles South of Groby
Newtown Linford boasts a large number of old cottages with a lot of character-especially between Groby Lane and Markfield Lane.
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On 1 May 1464, Edward married his daughter Elizabeth, widow of Sir John Grey of Groby.
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No remains are left of the castle, other than a slight rise in ground to the east of the main church building, and the manor house ( Groby Old Hall ), the stone-built parts of which are thought to have been part of the castle's outer buildings.
All these locations have old slate quarry pits, as does a corresponding outcrop on the other side of the Charnwood anticline at Groby.
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* Thomas Grey, Earl of Huntingdon, Marquess of Dorset and Lord Ferrers de Groby ( 1457 – 20 September 1501 ), married firstly Anne Holland, but she died young without issue ; he married secondly on 18 July 1474, Cecily Bonville, suo jure Baroness Harington and Bonville, by whom he had fourteen children.
* Isabel de Mowbray ; married firstly Henry Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Groby, and secondly James Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley.
As MPs arrived, he checked them against the list provided to him ; Lord Grey of Groby helped to identify those to be arrested and those to be prevented from entering.
## Anne Durward, daughter of Alan Durward ; their son was William de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby.
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