Person:Thomas Greswold (4)
Thomas Greswold
b.Est 1390 Solihull, Warwickshire, England
d.1458
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m.
  1. Thomas GreswoldEst 1390 - 1458
  2. John GreswoldEst 1392 - Bef 1459
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  • H.  Thomas GreswoldEst 1390 - 1458
  • W.  Christian Birches (add)
m. Est 1425
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Facts and Events
Name Thomas Greswold
Gender Male
Birth[1] Est 1390 Solihull, Warwickshire, England
Marriage Est 1425 to Christian Birches (add)
Death[1] 1458

'Thomas was King's Sergeant and clerk of the King's Bench when, on 1 Oct 1422, he was appointed Coroner and King's Attorney [to King Henry VI]. ... [H]e kept [these positions] until just before his own death in 1458. ... He had moved his family into the gentry in ways which Carpenter suggests were somewhat unscrupulous.'[1]

Thomas left his property to his nephew John; his great-nephew (also John) was 'the chief beneficiary of the maneuvers of .. Thomas.'[1]

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 #7, in French, Robert L.; Esther G. French; and Coralee (editor) Griswold. The Greswold Family: 12 generations in England. (Wethersfield, CT: Griswold Family Association of America, 1999)
    pages 9, 12, 15.

    'Thomas5 GRESWOLD ... was born about 1390/1395 in Solihull, Warwickshire, England.'
    'It is unlikely that Thomas would have made the property over to his nephew if he had any surviving children of his own.'
    'It seems quite possible that Thomas and Christian (Birches) Greswold had a son: ... Richard, born 1430, admitted to Eton, age 14 in 1444, also King's College. .. apparently died without issue before his father, in 1458.'
    'John7 was the chief beneficiary of the maneuvers of his father's uncle Thomas5.'

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