1484

21. August 1545

Sir William Brandon († 1485)

Elizabeth Bruyn

• his elder brother William, who died as a young child
• his sister Anne, who married a certain Nicholas Sidney

1. Anne Browne († 1510), daughter of Sir Anthony Browne of Calais; marriage promised in 1502/3 – however, he separated from her before the birth of their first child, Anne (1503-1558)
2. Margaret Mortimer (around 1464-after 1529), the wealthy aunt of his first wife; marriage around 1503, he separated from her in 1507, too

1. (see above) Anne Browne († 1510), marriage in 1508; apart from their daughter Anne, born in 1503, an adopted daughter, Magdalen Rochester, born around 1505, and another daughter Mary († 1540/44), born around 1510, were added to the family

3. Elizabeth Grey († before 1514), no details are known about this marriage, which probably lasted from 1511 until 1513
4. Mary Tudor (1496-1533), the younger sister of Henry VIII. († 1547), King of England; marriage late February or early March 1515 – four children
5. Katherine Willoughby (1518/19-1580), daughter of Lord William Willoughby († 1526) and his wife, Mary de Salinas († 1539); marriage on 7. September 1533; two sons; after the death of Charles Brandon in 1545 she married her master of ceremonies and friend Richard Bertie (1517/18-1582) in 1553; they had two more children: one daughter, Susan, Baroness Grey de Ruthven, Countess of Kent, born in 1554, and one son, Peregrine, the eleventh Lord Willoughby, born on 12. October 1555

He had the following children with his wife Anne Browne († 1510):

1. Anne, born in 1503, deceased in 1558; since 1525 married to Lord Edward Powis – very unhappy marriage
2. Mary, born in 1510, deceased in 1540/44; since 1527/28 married to Thomas Stanley, Lord Monteagle

Children with his wife Gattin Mary Tudor († 1533): see Mary Tudor

He had the following children with his wife Katherine Willoughby († 1580):

1. Henry, born in September 1535, deceased on 16. July 1551 from the Sweating sickness
2. Charles, born in 1537, deceased on 16. July 1551 from the Sweating sickness (half an hour ahead of his elder brother Henry)

He had the following three illegitimate children from three different women:

• Sir Charles Brandon, married to Elizabeth, widow of Sir James Strangways
• Frances, in her first marriage married to William Sandon, in her second marriage married to Andrew Bilsby
• Mary, married to Robert Ball of Scottow