Richard Granville
(ABT 1502 - 18 MAR 1550)
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Roger Granville
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Sir Richard Grenville
Birth Date 1541
Birth Place Cornwall
Death Date 1591
Death Place Sea Battle off Fflores.
Occupation Naval Admiral
Spouses of Sir Richard Grenville
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Mary St. Leger
Death Date 1623
Death Place Bideford Devon
Burial Date 5 NOV 1623
Burial Place Bideford Devon
Father Sir John St. Leger Of Annery, Kt. ( - )
Mother Katharine Nevil ( - )
Marriage Place 1591
Sir Richard Grenville and Mary St. Leger had the following children
1 Barnard Grenville
2 John Grenvile
3 Ursula Grenvile
4 Katharine Grenville
5 Bridget Grenvile
6 SON Grenvile
Notes for Sir Richard Grenville
English naval officer, born in Cornwall. He headed the fleet of seven ships in which colonists organized by his cousin, the English soldier and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, went (1585) to Roanoke Island, N.C. In 1591 Grenville sailed to the Azores, with Lord Thomas Howard, as second-in-command of an expedition sent to capture a Spanish treasure fleet. His ship, the Revenge, was cut off from the rest of the English fleet and was captured by the Spanish after a battle in which Grenville was mortally wounded. The battle is described in "The Revenge," a ballad by the British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Descendants of Sir Richard Grenville and Mary St. Leger

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