Lord John Grey Tudor nobleman

Lord John Grey (1523/24 – 19 November 1564) was an English nobleman and courtier of the Tudor period. He was at one stage sentenced to death for his involvement in Wyatt's Rebellion against Queen Mary I, but was later released from attainder. Grey was restored to his original position by Queen Mary's successor Queen Elizabeth I, who also granted him Pirgo Place in Essex. However, Lord John was again imprisoned shortly before his death, after publishing a book asserting Katherine Grey to be the legitimate heir to the English throne. His elder brothers, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 3rd Marquess of Dorset and Lord Thomas Grey, were executed for treason on Tower Hill in 1554. He married Mary Browne, a daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, KG, by his first wife Alice Gage. By his wife he had three sons and four daughters including:Henry Grey, eldest son and heir, seated at Pirgo place, who re-established the Grey family presence both at court and at their ancestral domains including Bradgate and Groby in Leicestershire. Frances Grey, wife of Sir William Cooke (died 1589), of Highnam, Gloucestershire, son ofSir Anthony Cooke of Gidea Hall, Essex.