
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:
- Henry Grey, third Marquis of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk (1517-1554, executed); marriage in 1533
- Adrian Stokes (1533-1585); marriage in 1554
Children:
from her first marriage:
- one son, born and deceased in 1534
- one daughter, born in 1535 or 1536, deceased in 1537
- 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
- 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)
- 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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