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Sir Roger Grenville
b.Abt 1477 Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England
d.7 Jul 1524 Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England
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m. Abt 1473
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m. Jan 1493
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[edit] Sir Roger Grenville(1477–1523) Sir Roger Grenville (1477–1523) (eldest son and heir by his father's first wife Isabel Gilbert). he served as Sheriff of Cornwall in 1510–11, 1517–18, 1522, and was present within the Cornish contingent at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.[36] He married Margaret Whitleigh (alias Whitlegh, Whitely, etc.) one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Whitleigh (died 1509)[37] of Efford[37][38] in the parish of Egg Buckland on the south coast of Devon. Sir Roger Grenville had by his wife Margaret Whitleigh, three sons and six daughters.[39] His second son was John Grenville (c. 1506 – c. 1562), three times MP for Exeter, in 1545, 1554 and 1558.[40]
Kilkhampton is a parish on the border of Cornwall and Devon, at times in one county, at other times in the other. |