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The Tudors and the Stuarts

The Tudors and the Stuarts

Henry VII.

Henry VIII.

Catherine of Aragon

Margaret Tudor

Mary Tudor

Mary Tudor, Queen

James V.

Anna Boleyn

Jane Seymour

Anna of Cleves

Katherine Parr

Elizabeth I.

Mary Stuart

James I.

Frances Brandon


Born on:

16. July 1517


Deceased on:

21. November 1559


Father:

Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk (1484-1545)


Mother:

Mary Tudor (1496-1533), younger sister of Henry VIII. of England († 1547)


Spouses:
  1. Henry Grey, third Marquis of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk (1517-1554, executed); marriage in 1533
  2. Adrian Stokes (1533-1585); marriage in 1554

Children:

from her first marriage:

  1. one son, born and deceased in 1534
  2. one daughter, born in 1535 or 1536, deceased in 1537
  3. her daughter Jane, born in October 1537, executed on 12. February 1554; since 25. May 1553 married to Lord Guilford Dudley (1535-1554), son of John Dudley († 1553), Duke of Northumberland; Queen of England from 9. until 18. July 1553
  4. her daughter Katherine, born in 1539, deceased on 27. January 1568 from tuberculosis; in her first marriage on 25. May 1553 married to Henry Herbert, Count of Pembroke, this marriage was annulled in 1553; in December 1560 a clandestine marriage to her second husband, Edward Seymour (1539-1621), Count of Hertford, son of Edward Seymour († 1552), Duke of Somerset; Queen Elizabeth I. punished both spouses with imprisonment; she had sons from her second marriage: Edward (1561-1612) and Thomas (1563-1600)
  5. her daughter Mary, born in 1545, deceased on 20. April 1578, a clandestine marriage to Thomas Keys († 1571) in 1565; both were punished by Queen Elizabeth I., too; Thomas Keys would die in prison

from her second marriage: two sons and one daughter, who died as small children


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