Robert Grissold

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{EngvarB|date=November 2019}} [[File:Robert Grissold 1 b.jpg|thumb|]] '''Robert Grissold''' (died 1604) was an attendant of [[John Sugar]], the Roman Catholic priest co-martyred at Warwick in 1604.<ref>{{cite web|last=Barbour|first=Ruth|title=Catholic Warwick: The last 500 years|url=http://www.stmary-immaculate.org.uk/ourstandard.asp?pageid=88}}</ref> His name is also given as Greswold or Griswold.<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Ven. John Sugar}}</ref>

==Life== Grissold belonged to an ancient yeomanry family of Rowington. He was arrested in the company of the priest John Sugar on the highway as they were leaving Rowington. They were betrayed by a relative of Grissold who offered to let him leave. "Cousin, if you will go your way you may," said Clement ; but Robert replied, " I will not, except I may have my friend with me."<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/a583126603gilluoft#page/52/mode/2up "Greswold, Robert", Gillow, Joseph. ''A literary and biographical history, or bibliographical dictionary, of the English Catholics from the breach with Rome, in 1534, to the present time'', Volume 3, London : Burns & Oates, 1902, p. 52] {{PD-notice}}</ref>

He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987 by [[Pope John Paul II]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gcatholic.org/saints/jpii-blesseds03.htm |title=Blesseds Beatified by John Paul II (1987-1988) |website=www.gcatholic.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204030349/http://www.gcatholic.org/saints/jpii-blesseds03.htm |archive-date=2014-02-04}} </ref>

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==External links== * [[Bede Camm]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=anpVguz_mlMC&dq=%22Robert+Grissold%22&pg=PA320 ''Forgotten Shrines'']

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