Ida de Grey

Ida de Grey
Born1368
Ruthin Castle, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
Died1 June 1426
Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire
Noble familyGrey
Spouse(s)SirJohn Cokayne, Justice of the Common Pleas
IssueSir Reginald Cokayne
Henry Cokayne
Elizabeth Cokayne
John Cokayne
Margaret Cokayne
Thomas Cokayne
FatherReginald Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Ruthyn
MotherEleanor Le Strange of Blackmere

Ida de Grey or Edith de Grey (1368 – 1 June 1426), was a Cambro-Norman noblewoman, and the daughter of Reginald Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, a powerful Welsh Marcher lord. The Greys of Ruthyn were the chief Marcher barons in the northern region of the Welsh Marches.[1]

Ida married Sir John Cokayne, Justice of the Common Pleas, by whom she had six children. Through her eldest daughter Elizabeth, she was an ancestress of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard, queens consort of King Henry VIII of England.

  1. ^ Thomas B. Costain, The Last Plantagenets, pp. 249-58