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Descendants of the branch seated at Heaton gained the peerage titles of: Earl of Tankerville (1419, 1695), Baronet Grey of Chillingham, Northumberland (1619); Baron Grey of Werke (1623/4); Viscount Glendale (1695), Baronet Grey of Howick (1746); Baron Grey of Howick (1801); Viscount Howick (1806),
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In 1541 Heaton Castle was described in a survey as "ruinous" but a later report identified "a vault that a hundred horses may stand in". By 1550 the ruins had been adapted "to form bases for large bastle type building with stone vault". The only remains surviving are two buttresses against the
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north-east wall of a stable-block, together with "probable remains of a turret and rampart", and the long barrel vault. In the 1580s attempts at rebuilding and repair were made, but the project failed when the Grey family became involved in a dispute with the Crown concerning funding.
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in Northumberland. His descendants gained peerage titles including: Baronet Grey of Chillingham, Northumberland (1619); Baron Grey of Werke (1623/4); Baronet Grey of Howick (1746); Baron Grey of Howick (1801); Viscount Howick (1806); Earl Gret (1806). His most notable descendant was
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The castle was the seat of the de Heton family, which as was usual took its name from its seat. It passed in about 1250 to a branch of the prominent de Grey family, who in 1415 rebuilt it as a quadrangular castle.
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King, Andy (2005). "Scaling the Ladder: The Rise and Rise of the Grays of Heaton, c.1296-c.1415". In Liddy, Christian D. North-east England in the Later Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. pp. 57–74
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set miners to work to slight or demolish Heaton Castle on 24 September 1496, and gave his stone masons, led by John Cochrane, a bonus to work through the night. James IV brought the pretender
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In 2011 the estate of Castle Heaton (with Shellacres) was offered for sale at an asking price of £11.5 million, a record for recent years in the North East.
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King, Andy (2005). "Scaling the Ladder: The Rise and Rise of the Grays of Heaton, c.1296-c.1415". In Liddy, Christian D. (ed.).
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in 1496 by King James IV of Scotland, but remnants survive as parts of the walls of outbuildings of a farm now known as
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Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999, page: 15, 1222
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Castle Heaton, Cornhill-on-Tweed: An Investigation of the Vaulted Building and Adjacent Earthworks
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Castle Heaton, Cornhill-on-Tweed: An Investigation of the Vaulted Building and Adjacent Earthworks
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Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham
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Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham
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The Grey family of Heaton was descended from Hugh de Grey, a younger son of
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The remaining building with the long vault has some characteristics of a
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in 1066. Anchetil de Greye is regarded as the ancestor of the noble
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in 1066. The descent of the de Grey family of Heaton is as follows:
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with him into England. They stayed some nights at Ellemford on the
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It is situated in an elevated position above the south bank of the
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in 1415. In about 1408 he married Alice Neville, a daughter of
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Earl Grey (1806) and Baronet Grey of Fallodon (1814).
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for life, the daughter and eventual sole heiress of
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Index

Cornhill-on-Tweed
Northumberland
River Till
Coldstream
Berwick-upon-Tweed
River Tweed
slighted
James IV of Scotland
Perkin Warbeck
Whiteadder Water
Bastle house
Akeld

Henry de Grey
Grays Thurrock

Henry de Grey
Grays Thurrock
John
Anchetil de Greye
William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford
magnates
Norman
companions of William the Conqueror
Battle of Hastings
Thomas Grey
Edward I
Edward II
Thomas Grey
chronicle

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