Sir Richard found himself consigned to a debtor's cell after guaranteeing loans which went unpaid by his spendthrift brother-in-law. The Grosvenor family rose from knightly status through the peerage when Sir Richard Grosvenor (1584-1645), son of Richard Grosvenor of Eaton, and Christian, the daughter of Sir Richard Brooke of Norton Priory, Cheshire, was created first baronet by King James I, in 1622. Through the marriage of Mary Davies and Sir Thomas Grosvenor (pictured right) in 1677, the Grosvenor's inherited 500 acres of land north of the Thames to the west of London. They acquired their considerable fortune through mines and minerals in North Wales and through the later development of property in London's Mayfair and Belgravia. The family inherited Eaton Hall in Cheshire through the marriage of Raufe Grosvenor of Hulme to Joan, heiress of the Eaton estate in 1443. The Grosvenor family of Eaton Hall in Cheshire descend from Gilbert le Grosveneur, (the name means chief huntsman in Norman French) a relative of King William the Conqueror, who came over to England from Normandy with him in 1066, accompanied by Gilbert’s uncle, Hugh Lupus D’Avranches, who was later created Earl of Chester.
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