Title:
Pedigree compiled for Henry Grey of Billingbear, Berkshire etc.
Level: Category
Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds
AUDLEY END ESTATE, SAFFRON WALDEN
Level: Sub-Fonds
FAMILY
Level: Series
Neville Family (Billingbear)
Scope and Content:
Pedigree compiled for Henry Grey of Billingbear, Berkshire:
extracts from parish registers (Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, Evenlode, Worcestershire) and pedigrees certified by Henry Grey, son of Richard Neville esquire, of Billingbear, and Ralph Neville, clerk, of Emlode, Worcestershire, 12 April 1729, witnessed by S. Burrough, pedigree of 'The noble family of the Nevilles descended from the ancient Earles of Northumberland ...' giving descent of Henry Grey from Westmorland, Midelham, Chester, Arundell, Warwick, Spencer and Gloucester, reciting from 1016, shields of arms, achievement of Neville, quarterly of 20, standards and crests (all in pen-and-ink);
'The Coatearmour, and some of the quarterings of the noble Nevilles of Billingbere ..., who are a branch of the Nevilles Lord Abergavenny, and the offspring of ... Ralph Lord Neville of Raby Castle, the first Earl of Westmorland, and of his wife, Lady Jane Beaufort, the sister of Henry IV' (108 coats blazoned);
blazon of 54 coats quartered 'by the now Lord Abergavenny and by the Nevilles of Billingbere', with details of crests and supporters.

Loose papers: notes on Griffin family (watermark, 1834) and Sir Henry Wotton's authorship of diary of expedition of 1591, in hand of 3rd Lord Braybrooke; transcript of ?17th century letter from estranged son or daughter to mother.
Dates of Creation:
1729
Extent:
1 volume
Admin History:
Henry Grey, formerly Henry Neville, of Billingbear (1683-1740) was the son and heir of Richard Neville of Billingbear and his wife Katharine, sister and heir of Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Werk. Henry Grey's own wife Elizabeth Griffin (later Countess of Portsmouth, owner of Audley End and aunt of John Griffin Griffin, the 1st Lord Braybrooke) was a great niece of that same Richard Neville. Henry and Elizabeth's marriage was childless, but by her marriage to Richard Aldworth Henry's sister Catherine Neville (died 1720) linked the Neville and Aldworth families. Her grandson was Richard Aldworth Neville, later Griffin, the 2nd Lord Braybrooke.

Richard Griffin, formerly Richard Neville, 3rd Lord Braybrooke (1783-1858) succeeded to the title on the 2nd Lord's death in 1825.
Access:
Permanently withdrawn by the depositor, 14 July 2021.
Physical Characteristics:
475 x 325 x 20 mm.
Not Available:
Permanently withdrawn by depositor