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SUFFOLK. the Order of the Garter, 1530 ; accompanied the King to France, 1532, and was el. at Boulogne, 25 Oct. 1532, Knight of St. Michael of Prance ; Joint Commissi-, to depose the Queen Consort, Catharine, April 1533, and L High Constable, and L. High Steward for the coron. of tile Queen Consort, Anne, in May following. In 1536, lie was in com- mand against the rebels in Lincolnshire. He received a large sh ire of abbey lands ; was Great Master of the Household, 1540-45 ; one of the Judges of the accomplices of the Queen Consoit, Catharine (Howard), and was Capt. Gen. of the army at the capture of Boulogne in 1544. His numerous marriages, ijuasi inarriages, and engagements, illustrate the loose practise of the period. (■') In 1502-06 he m. "per verba de praaenti," Anne Bbowne, of whom hereafter as his second wife. He then m., 150(1-07, Margaret (b. 146:5), widow of Sir John MOUTIMRR (.will pr. 1505), 3d da. and coheir of John (NkVUX), Al abquess ok Montagu, by Isabel, da. and h. of Sir Edmund Ingui.ls- THOUI'K. This marriage was declared void,() ;iu compliance with a l'apal Bull), by the Archdeaconry Court of London, about 1507. After this, he in. in full court, 1508-11. the abnreuamed Anne, da. of Sir Anthony BnmVNE, KG. by Lucy, da. and coheir of the saiil John (NsVtlX), Maiuji'Ess OK MONTAGU. She </. s.p.m. 1511 or 1612. In 1513 he contracted marriage with his ward, the sun jure Baiiunkss Lisle, as already stated, hut the contract was never fulfilled, and in the same or following year he appears to have been a suitor for the hand of Margaret of Savoy, Kegeut of the Netherlands, da. of the Emperor Maxmih'an, and to have been raised to a Dukedom for the puipose of advancing his cause. He >«. thirdly, privately, 3 March 151 1/5, at the Hotel Cluny, Bans, and again, publicly, i-'l May 1515. at Greenwich, "the Lady Mary Tudor," Ql'KKN DOW. OF FRANCE, Widow of LOUIS XII., sister to the reigning King of England, Henry VIII., 3d da. of Henry VII. .by the Lady Elizabeth Plaxtagknet, 1st da. of Edward IV., which marriage (as also that of her predecessor, Anne Browne) was vali- dated by a bull of 152S (») She, who was b. IS March 1490. rf. 26 June 1533, at Wes- thorpe Hall, CO. Suffolk, aged 37, and wasonr. with great state in the Abbey church, (but afterwards removed to St. Mary's), Bury St. Edmunds, M.I. He m. fourthly, about Nov. 1531, Katharine, silo jure. Baroness Wiu.oighby DE Kiiesby (then aged 15), da. mid h. of William ( Wii.liiI'g/ihy), LOBO WlLLnl uhbv UK Ehesbv, by his second wife, Lady Mary S.U.INES," a Spaniard. She, who was b. 22 and bnp. 26 March 1519, at Paiham. CO. Suffolk, and who had been granted to the lloke, in ward, 12 Feb. 1520, and intended for the wife of his eldest son, Henry, Earl of Lincoln, became a Pro tee tan t( d ) aa eaily as about 1539. The Duke il. li or 24 Aug. 1545, aged about liO, at the Palace, at Guildford, and was bur. with some state in St. George's chapel, Windsor. M.I. Funeral certif. in the Coll. of Aruis.( L ') Will dat. 20 June 1544, directing his burial to be at Tattershall, co. Liucolu, pr. 1 April 1547. Hia widow ro. about 1553 or {') The dates and particulars of these are mostly taken from the valuable "Historical Appendix to a novel by Miss Emily Sarah Holt [" Jlcrmeiilrude]," entitled " The Harvest of Yesterday, a tale of the Wth Century." See also her letter in " N. and Q." 7th s., xii, 287. ( b ) On the grounds (1) that he and his wife were in the 2d and 3d degrees of affinity ; (2) that his wife and the lady to whom he was first betrothed were within the prohibited degrees of consanguniuity [the latter being niece, by the sister, to the former]; (3) that he was first cousin, once removed, of his wife's former husband. This Margaret m. thirdly Robert Downes, who was living 1 Oct. 1524, and (/. 31 Jan. 1528 (/no. post, mei'tem), many years after the birth of the Duke's three children by his third wife, the Princess Mary. ( c ) This of course confirmed the nullity of the marriage with Margaret Nevill, who was still alive. See note " b " above. ( d ) A curious old metrical broadside describing her wanderings and sufferings for the Protestant faith under Mary L, (to be sung to the tune of " Queen Dido,") which was first published in the reign of Elizabeth, is reprinted in the Gent's Hag., vol. 77, l't. L, p. 209. ( e ) His character, and iu some measure his personal appearance, appears to have been very similar to that of his br. iu law, Henry VIII, Iu his youth extremely handsome and active, but becoming corpulent when older, and in 153S [Brady's " Annals of Catholic Hierachy "] even " sickly and half lame." His portrait, " after a painter unknown," is engraved iu " Doyle." His three legit, sons (all of them Peers) are noticed iu the text, but he appears to have had an illegit one, viz., Sir Charles Brandon, knighted in 1544, whose will, dat. 22 July 1551, was pr. in that year.