FRANCES BRANDON
LADY FRANCES BRANDON
FRANCES GREY, MARCHIONESS OF DORSET
FRANCES GREY, DUCHESS OF SUFFOLK
FRANCES BRANDON, DUCHESS OF SUFFOLK
LADY FRANCES STOKES
BIRTH: 16 Jul 1517, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
MARRIAGE:
1. (Henry Grey) 1533, Suffolk Place, Southwark
2. (Adrian Stokes) 1555
DEATH: 21 Nov 1559, Richmond, London
BURIAL: St Edmund's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, London
LINEAGE
PARENTS:
CHARLES BRANDON
1st Duke of Suffolk
c.1484-1545
PRINCESS MARY TUDOR
Queen [Consort] of France
Duchess of Suffolk [Brandon]
1496-1533
KATHERINE WILLOUGHBY
Stepmother
Duchess of Suffolk
[Brandon/Bertie]
1519-1580
SIBLINGS:
HENRY BRANDON
.
1516-1522
ELEANOR BRANDON
Countess of Cumberland [Clifford]
1519-1547
HENRY BRANDON
1st Earl of Lincoln
c.1523-1534
(HALF-SISTERS FROM FATHER CHARLES BRANDON's SECOND MARRIAGE TO ANNE BROWNE d. c.1512):
ANNE BRANDON
Baroness Grey of Powys
[Grey]
1507-1557
MARY BRANDON
Baroness Monteagle
[Stanley]
1510-c.1542
(HALF-BROTHERS FROM FATHER CHARLES BRANDON'S FOURTH MARRIAGE TO KATHERINE WILLOUGHBY):
HENRY BRANDON
2nd Duke of Suffolk
1535-1551
CHARLES BRANDON
3rd Duke of Suffolk
1537-1551
Both Henry and Charles died of 'sweating sickness' on the same day - 14 Jul 1551.
Henry died 1 hour before Charles, leading to the shortest tenure of British Peerage,
as Charles was made Duke of Suffolk on his brother's death.
(ILLEGITIMATE HALF-SIBLINGS AS RESULT OF FATHER CHARLES BRANDON'S EXTRA-MARITAL AFFAIRS):
SIR CHARLES BRANDON
.
??
FRANCES BRANDON
.
??
MARY BRANDON
.
??
SPOUSE:
SIR HENRY GREY
1st Duke of Suffolk
1517-1554
ADRIAN STOKES
.
1519-1583
CHILDREN:
(FROM FIRST MARRIAGE TO HENRY GREY):
LADY JANE GREY
'Quene Jane'
[Dudley]
1536/37-1554
LADY KATHERINE GREY
Countess of Hertford
[Seymour]
1540-1568
LADY MARY GREY
[Keyes]
1545-1578
(FROM SECOND MARRIAGE TO ADRIAN STOKES):
ELIZABETH STOKES
reported by Agnes Strickland
stillborn Nov 1554
ELIZABETH STOKES
.
1555-56
'SON' STOKES
.
stillborn Dec 1556
