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NAME TYPE MATERIAL DATE Henry, Baron Grey of Goby and his wife Anne Recumbent knight and lady Alabaster 1614:1605

Depicted in armour, on which the breast plate central ridge is very pronounced, Henry's head is resting on his helm. Wearing a beard and short hair, his robe has a high collar. The left arm is straight by his side while the raised right hand is holding a scroll of office. At his feet is a pair of gauntlets. Anne, who died in 1605, was of the Windsor family of Bradenham. She is depicted in a long robe, tied with a small girdle with a long chain and tassel. The gown has a large ruff with short cuffs at the wrists. Her head, wearing a fashionable headdress, is resting on a double cushion. Her hands are in prayer. On the back wall, beneath a decorated soffit, there is a black tablet that may at one time carried an inscription. Above the monument is an achievement of arms supported by a lion and a unicorn and surmounted by a unicorn passant ermine, armed, maned, tufted and unguled or, in front of a sun in splendour. The arms are Quarterly of eight: Barry of six argent and azure, in chief three torteaux (Grey) Or, a maunch sable (Hastings) Barry of ten argent and azure, an orle of martlets gules (Valence) Gules, seven mascles voided and conjoined or (Ferrers of Groby) Azure, a cinquefoil ermine (Astley) Argent, a fess and canton gules (Woodville) Sable six mullets or (Bonvile) Sable, a fret argent (Harrington). Motto A Ma Puissance ('According to my Power'). On the front of the tomb-chest are three more arms. On one side are the arms of Grey and on the other those of Windsor (Gules, a saltire argent between twelve cross crosslets or). In the centre Grey impaling Windsor. Henry, the nephew of Lady Jane Grey's father, moved the family seat back to Bradgate from Pirgo, Essex, where it had been since 1554. He died on 26 July 1614 but the funeral was not solemnised until 7 November. The ruins of Bradgate House and Chapel Sepulchral Effigies of Leicestershire and Rutland Text copyright Max Matthews 2002. Selected text copyright Bob Trubshaw 2025–6. Images copyright Max Matthews 2002 or Bob Trubshaw 2002, 2025–6. No copying or reproduction without prior written permission. Published by Heart of Albion Press Back to top of this page This website does not gather or store any visitor information.