GRANE— GRANTHAM. 79 GRANE. Viscountcy [I.] Lord Leonard Grey, 6th, but 2d surv. B. of Thomas I- 1530 (Grey), 1st Marquess of Dorset, by Cicely, suo jure Baroness ' Harin'gton and BoHVUXE, was b. about 1490 ; Carver iu the Royal i fi j -I Household ; Marshal of the Army in Ireland, July 1535, being cr. 2
- "**■ Jan. 1535/6, VISCOUNT GRANE,( a ) co. Carlow [I.], in which
month he was Dei-. Ch. Governor [I.], presiding at the Pari. Which proclaimed the King to be the Head of the church. His favour of the Geraldine party laid his conduct open to suspicicn and, on his arrival in England m lo-lO, he was found guilty of high treason and executed on Tower Hill, 28 July whereby his peerage (which as he d- num., would have became extinct) was GRANT. Sir Jajies Grast, of Grant, was a: a Baron [BARON GRANT 1] by the titular King James III. See vol. i, p. 59, note " b," sub " Albemarle for a list of these " Jacobite Peerages." GRANTHAM. Earldom. Henry D'Auverquerque,^) 2d but 1st surv. s. and h. I 1 G98 *P" °^ Henry de Nassau, Lord ok Acverquerque, in Holland (the ^ Q ' well-known Companion iu Amis of, and Master of the Horse [16S9 — , - r , 1 702] to, King William III), by Frances Van AerseN, da. of Cornelius, 1 Lord of Somraeladyck and Plaata, iu Holland, was b. about 1675 ; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford,( c i 9 Nov. 1695, and was 24 Dec. 1698, a: (v.p.) BARON OF ALFORD, VISCOUNT OF BOSTON and EARL OF GRANTHAM, all in co. Lincoln, with a spec. rem. failing the heir male of his body to his three brothers, Cornelius, Maurice and Francis, iu like manner respectively.( J ) He was (•') The dissolved convent of Gra'ne, iu Leinster, had been granted to him. ( b ) A good IIS. peil. is iu the private collection of the Col), of Arms, in Brooke's MSS., labelled " I.O.B. 8." By it the relationship of the reigning King to his two cousins (by bastard descent) both of whom he ennobled appears to be as under :-- Maurice de Nassau, Prince of Orange, slain 1584. P T Maurice, Prince of Orange,=P Henry Frederiek^pAmasia. d. 1625. Prince of Orange, j j d. 1617. Louis de Nassau, Lord r~ ' Frederick de Nassau de of Auverquernue,illegit. William, Prince of Zulestein ; illegit. son, son d. 1668. =j= OraDge, son and heir. Blain 1672. J Henry de Nassau, Lord of | r Anverquerqtie, 3d son set- , 1 William Henry,« Earl tied in England ; d. 1708, William^III, King of Rochfort, 1695. i Henry, cr. Earl of Grantham, 1698. ( c ) "D'Auverkirk, Henry, eldest s. of Mr. Henry D'A., Capt. of the Horse to the Prince of Orange." See " Oxford graduates." ( a ) All three died s.p. before their elder br. Of these, Cornelius was slain in 1712, at the battle of Denain, and Francis in 1710 at that of Almeuara.
