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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Fron todays newspaper - Codnor has a connection to Lady Jane Grey ==== BEHEADED JANE GREY HAD DERBYSHIRE BLOOD Reluctant monarch Lady Jane Grey was just 15 when she was ascended the throne. She was beheaded less than a year later - exactly 454 years ago today. Maxwell Craven traces her Derbyshire links. Derbyshire can legitimately lay claim to the unfortunate Queen Jane, who was placed on the throne of England by a conniving father-in-law as the white hope of the Protestant succession on July 10, 1553, following the death of Edward VI. Lady Jane Grey, as she is more usually known, was a member of an old and distinguished Anglo-Norman family. Henry de Grey, of Thurrock, had inherited the extensive manor of Codnor, which included Heanor and Langley (Mill), with its castle guarding the Erewash valley by 1201. The family remained there until the 6th Lord Grey of Codnor died without a legitimate heir in 1496. ==== Sue [/quote]
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Codnor History
replied on: 2/12/2008 8:50:38 PM

Fron todays newspaper - Codnor has a connection to Lady Jane Grey

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BEHEADED JANE GREY HAD DERBYSHIRE BLOOD

Reluctant monarch Lady Jane Grey was just 15 when she was ascended the throne. She was beheaded less than a year later - exactly 454 years ago today. Maxwell Craven traces her Derbyshire links.

Derbyshire can legitimately lay claim to the unfortunate Queen Jane, who was placed on the throne of England by a conniving father-in-law as the white hope of the Protestant succession on July 10, 1553, following the death of Edward VI.

Lady Jane Grey, as she is more usually known, was a member of an old and distinguished Anglo-Norman family. Henry de Grey, of Thurrock, had inherited the extensive manor of Codnor, which included Heanor and Langley (Mill), with its castle guarding the Erewash valley by 1201.

The family remained there until the 6th Lord Grey of Codnor died without a legitimate heir in 1496.

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Sue

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