Honor Grenville, Viscountess Lisle was a Cornish lady whose domestic life from 1533 to 1540 during the reign of King Henry VIII is exceptionally well recorded, due to the survival of the Lisle Papers
Monumental brass of Honor Grenville on chest-tomb of her first husband
Sculptural relief showing arms of Sir John Basset (1462–1528) of Umberleigh (Barry wavy of six or and gules) impaling the arms of his wife, Honor Grenville (Gules, three clarions or)
Thomas Grenville (died 1513)
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Sir Thomas Grenville II, K.B.,, lord of the manors of Stowe in Kilkhampton, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1481 and 1486. During the Wars of the Roses, he was a Lancastrian suppo
Honor Grenville, Viscountess Lisle
…exceptionally well recorded, due to the survival of the Lisle Papers in the National Archives, the state archives of the UK. Honor was a daughter of Sir Thomas Grenville (died 1513) of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, and lord of the manor of Bideford in North Devon, by his wife Isabella Gilbert, a daughter…
Detail of Grenville's effigy in St Mary's Church, Bideford
Heraldic escutcheon within quatrefoil on Grenville's monument in St Mary's Church, Bideford. Arms displayed are: Gules, three clarions or (Grenville) impaling Or, on a chevron sable three roses of the field (Gilbert)
Grenville's monument in St Mary's Church, Bideford, from the Lady Chapel looking northwards
Thomas Grenville Arms 1513Bideford Church Devon