Marriages
His mother sought to make provision for him by marriage to a wealthy heiress. Thomas first married, at Greenwich in October 1466, Anne Holland (c.1455-c.1474), the only daughter of Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter and Anne of York. His mother-in-law was the second child and eldest surviving daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville, thus sister to his mother's second husband king Edward IV.
After Anne died young without issue, Thomas married on 18 July 1474, Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington of Aldingham and 2nd Baroness Bonville, the wealthiest heiress in England. Cecily was born on or around 30 June 1460, and was the daughter and heiress of William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington by his wife Katherine Neville.
Grey's new mother-in-law, since 1462 the wife of William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, a close associate of Edward IV, was a daughter of Alice Montagu, 5th Countess of Salisbury by her consort Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (jure uxoris).
The maternal uncles of Cecily Bonville included Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu and George Neville, Archbishop of York and Chancellor of England.
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