"In 32.H.8 he was recalled from Ireland and had 'diverse articles of High Treason exhibited against him, charged with a purpose to join with Cardinal Poole and others of the King's enemies...and also that he had consented to the escape of his nephew Gerald, being brought to his Tryal, and...confessing all, he had his head cut off on tower Hill"
from The Baronage of England
After the beheading the head was spiked on the Bridge and the body interred on Tower Hill near the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula.
Leonard and his wife Eleanor Sutton had no children.
"In 32.H.8 he was recalled from Ireland and had 'diverse articles of High Treason exhibited against him, charged with a purpose to join with Cardinal Poole and others of the King's enemies...and also that he had consented to the escape of his nephew Gerald, being brought to his Tryal, and...confessing all, he had his head cut off on tower Hill"
from The Baronage of England
After the beheading the head was spiked on the Bridge and the body interred on Tower Hill near the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula.
Leonard and his wife Eleanor Sutton had no children.
Gravesite Details
body interred on Tower Hill near the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula.
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Roger Grey
1474–1541
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Edward Grey
1476–1517
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Thomas Grey II
1477–1530
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Lady Dorothy Grey Blount
1480–1553
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Richard Grey
1486–1525
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Joan Grey Montague
1489–1540
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Margaret De Grey Wake
1494 – unknown
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Cecily Grey Sutton
1497–1554
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Elizabeth Grey Fitzgerald
1497–1548
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Eleanor Grey Arundell
unknown–1503
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Lady Mary Grey Devereux
unknown–1534
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