Thomas Grenvile, Lord of Bideford
- Born: Jacobstow, Cornwall
- Married: Before 21 Jan 1452/3
- Died: 1483, Jacobstow, Cornwall
 Orthographic variations: GREENFIELD, GRENVILLE.
Research Notes:
High sheriff of Cornwall, 21 Edw. IV [1481/2]
Sir Thomas and his second wife grant to Richard Rede all that his land in Bideford, which John Bishop and others held by grant of William Hankeford, Kt., John Hankeford, Richard Greyneville, William Freye, and Richard Covyan, parson of the church of Lytheham. The deed is dated at Bideford the Sunday before the Conversion of St. Paul, 31st Henry VI." (1460)
"He married first, Anne, daughter of Sir Philip Courtenay (the second of that name), of Powderham, Knight, their marriage being celebrated in he Umberleigh Chapel in Atherington Parish, by the licence of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter, 7th September, 1447. By her he had no issue. He married secondly, Elizabeth, sister to Sir Theobald Gorges, Kt., and dying 1st Richard III, left issue, two sons, viz., Thomas, who succeeded him, and John, a Priest, who was instituted, sede vacante, to the living of Bideford by Archbishop Warham, 21st May 1504, and died in 1509."
Marriage Information:
Thomas married Elizabeth Gorges, daughter of Theobald Gorges, Knt. and Joan Hankford, before 21 Jan 1452-1453. (Elizabeth Gorges was born in Jacobstow, Cornwall and died about 1470 in Jacobstow, Cornwall.)
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