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23. Feb. 2017 · On this day in history, 23rd February 1554, at nine o'clock in the morning, Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, was led out onto the scaffold on Tower Hill and beheaded. His daughter, Lady Jane Grey, or Queen Jane as I like to call her, had been executed eleven days earlier, along with her husband, Lord Guildford Dudley. Suffolk's execution was down to his involvement in Wyatt's Rebellion, a ...
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Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk. Henry Grey is best remembered as the father of the ‘Nine Day Queen’, Lady Jane Grey. He was born on 17 January 1517, the son and heir of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset and Margaret Wotton. In his youth Grey was betrothed to Catherine FitzAlan, but this betrothal came to nothing when Grey refused to ...
28. Feb. 2017 · Henry Grey’s father was the second marquis and on of Elizabeth of York’s closest relatives. He found that his credentials were suspect under the new Tudor regime not least because of his suspected conspiracy in the Lambert Simnel affair. What saved his bacon was his skill at jousting and his friendship with Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk ...
Five days after Jane's execution, Henry Grey was brought to trial and found guilty of treason for his part in Dudley's scheme. He was beheaded on Tower Hill 23 Feb 1554. Modern writers are generally content to characterise the Duke of Suffolk as a very weak man.
Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Grey, was beheaded on this day in 1554 after being found guilty of treason. I explain how he went from being pardoned to being condemned to death and executed in just a few months, and also share his execution speech. I also share a story regarding his alleged mummified head!
23. Feb. 2018 · Henry Grey’s head. As today is the anniversary of the execution of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk and father of Lady Jane Grey, I thought I'd talk about his execution and a mummified head discovered in the 19th century that is said to be the duke's. You can click here to read a bio of Henry Grey.
