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Published March 2025. The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Paternal Family Tree: Gresley
On 5th April 1719 [his father] Thomas Gresley 4th Baronet (age 20) and [his mother] Dorothy Bowyer were married at St Lawrence's Church, Biddulph.
On 11th January 1727 Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet was born to Thomas Gresley 4th Baronet (age 28) and Dorothy Bowyer at Drakelow Hall, Derbyshire.
On 31st July 1736 [his mother] Dorothy Bowyer died. She was buried at St George and St Mary's Church, Church Gresley.
On 11th June 1739 [his father] Thomas Gresley 4th Baronet (age 40) and Gertrude Grammer Lady Gresley were married at Haddon Chapel - unknown where this chapel is located. She by marriage Lady Gresley of Drakelow in Derbyshire.
On 21st February 1740 Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet (age 13) joined the Royal Naval Academy as a scholar.
In 1746 Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet (age 18) was serving in the 24-gun frigate HMS Bridgewater, a prison ship stationed in the Firth of Forth, as a volunteer.
In 1746 [his father] Thomas Gresley 4th Baronet (age 47) died. His son [his brother] Thomas (age 23) succeeded 5th Baronet Gresley of Drakelow in Derbyshire.
On 22nd April 1748 Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet (age 21) was then promoted to Lieutenant and was appointed to serve on the 22-gun frigate HMS Inverness, which he did until she was paid off on 14 November of the same year, having served only in home waters.
On 18th May 1752 Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet (age 25) and Elizabeth Wynn Lady Gresley were married.
In 1753 [his son] Nigel Bowyer Gresley 7th Baronet was born to Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet (age 25) and [his wife] Elizabeth Wynn Lady Gresley.
On 23rd December 1753 [his brother] Thomas Gresley 5th Baronet (age 30) died of smallpox. His brother Nigel (age 26) succeeded 6th Baronet Gresley of Drakelow in Derbyshire. [his wife] Elizabeth Wynn Lady Gresley by marriage Lady Gresley of Drakelow in Derbyshire.
In 1755 [his daughter] Anne Gresley was born to Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet (age 27) and [his wife] Elizabeth Wynn Lady Gresley.
In 1759 Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet (age 31) was appointed High Sheriff of Derbyshire.
Gresley Canal. 13 George III. Cap. 16, Royal Assent 13th April, 1775.
This canal, which pursues a north-west direction, and is level throughout, was made at the expense of Sir Nigel Gresley (age 48), Bart and [his son] Nigel Bowyer Gresley (age 22), Esq. his son and heir-apparent, for the purpose of conveying the produce of their extensive coal mines in Apedale, in Staffordshire, to the town of Newcastle-under-Lyne, in the same county, and of facilitating their transit to other parts of the country by means of the Newcastle-under-Lyne Junction, and other navigations.
The act obtained as above, is entitled, 'An Act to enable Sir Nigel Greeley, Bart and Nigel Bowyer Gresley, Esq. his Son, to make and maintain a navigable Cut or Canal from certain Coal Mines in Apedale, to Newcastle-under-Lyne, in the county of Stafford." This act, after making the usual provisions, binds the proprietors for twenty-one years from and after the date thereof, to furnish the inhabitants of Newcastle with coals at 5s. per ton of twenty hundred weight, weighing one hundred and twenty pounds each hundred weight, and in like proportion for a single hundred weight. At the expiration of the first twenty-one years the proprietors, or their heirs, are to furnish coals at 5s. 6d. per ton for an additional term of twenty-one years; which last quoted price may, under certain conditions, be raised to 6s. per ton; the proprietors, in either case, binding themselves, under the penalty of £40 for each offence, to keep a supply of coals sufficient for the consumption of the town, at a wharf in or near the same.
There are few private works of more real utility to the public than Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal, which has added considerably to die interests of the inhabitants of Newcastle, by the regularity wherewith they are supplied with coal at a moderate charge.
On 27th January 1776 [his son] Nigel Bowyer Gresley 7th Baronet (age 23) and [his daughter-in-law] Wilmot Gresley were married by which he acquired Drakelow Hall, Derbyshire. They were first cousins.
In 1780 [his son-in-law] John Edensor Heathcote (age 23) and [his daughter] Anne Gresley (age 25) were married at the Church of St John the Evangelist, Knypersley [Map].
On 17th April 1787 Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet (age 60) died. He was buried on 21st April 1787 in Bath Abbey [Map]. His son [his son] Nigel (age 34) succeeded 7th Baronet Gresley of Drakelow in Derbyshire.
[his daughter] Louisa Jane Gresley was born to Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet and Elizabeth Wynn Lady Gresley.
Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 18 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 24 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 19 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 18 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 16 Grand Son of Philip IV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Gresley 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Gresley 1st Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katharine Walsingham 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Gresley 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Ferrers 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Susan Ferrers Lady Gresley 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Bradbourne 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Gresley 2nd Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Burdett
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Burdett 1st Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Wilson
Great x 2 Grandmother: Bridgett Burdett
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Francis
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Francis
GrandFather: William Gresley 3rd Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Gilbert Morewood of London and Netherseale, Leicestershire
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Morewood Lady Gresley
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Salmon
Father: Thomas Gresley 4th Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Walcot of Walcot in Shropshire
GrandMother: Barbara Walcot
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Clarke
Nigel Gresley 6th Baronet 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bowyer 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Bowyer 2nd Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Weld Lady Bowyer
Great x 2 Grandfather: Cecil Bowyer 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Cecil 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Cecil 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Diana Maxwell
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Bowyer 3rd Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: William Bowyer 4th Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Stonhouse 1st and 3rd Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Lovelace
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Stonhouse 3rd Baronet
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Briggs Merchant of St. Paul's Churchyard London
Great x 3 Grandmother: Martha Briggs
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Stonhouse
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Dashwood
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Dashwood 1st Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Perry
Great x 2 Grandmother: Penelope Dashwood
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Chamberlayne 2nd Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Penelope Chamberlayne Lady Dashwood
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Prideaux
Mother: Dorothy Bowyer 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England