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3 1 0 NlTKOLK earlier, Richard Hkiitik. sometime M.l fat eo. Lincoln (i/. !> April 1882, aged 04'), ami </. 1!' Sep. 1580, need 81, being iur. at Spilsl.y, co> Lincoln, leaving issue (among which are the succeeding Louis VTitlowghliy tie Krcshy), t >y him. [Hknhv Hrandox, slyl'il I.niui Henry Brandon or [more rightly] I.oKi) Bhasdon, ;-t r anil h, n|i. by third wife! ■ >>> Beth pbtee, London, 11 Mxrcb 1516, anil was (when nine years oldj it. v. p. by the King, his mn-le, is June 1525/*) EARL OF LINCOLN. He if. num. ami v.p.s March lSUJ, b ) when the Earldom »J Lincoln became cxttnel.] V. 15-15. 'j. 1 1 k:> uy (1)uaxi>ok), Dukk op SrjFFOi.K,( c ) 3d hut 1st Miiv. s. ami h, being 1st s. nf 1 tb wife; l>. 18 Seji. 1585, or 8 or 8 Sep. 1537, at tlie Barbican, London; tfylctf Lord Ba.vKDON, till In- »wc. to the peerage as above in Aug. 1515 ; was hearer of tin' urb, at the t'nrnn., 20 Feb. nl' Ed. VI., by whom lie was Lniyhtcd mi that day ; Mi at St. John's full , Cambridge, ami cr. M A. by diploma 1551. lie if. utuu. at the sweating sickness at the Bwhos of Lincoln's limise at liugdeu, 1 1 or lti July 1551. /wj. port mortem ti bid. VI.,*) VI. 1551. <?. Charles ( I Iran dun), Dukk in-' Sfi-K(U.K,( ), yet, ami only Mir*. It- and Ik. : 4. 15:(7 or 10 March 1539 in the country ; sti/kd LottD Charles Brandon till he true, to the peerage as above, 14 or Hi July 1551, having been knighted the same day as his brother ami ed. with blot at St. John's Coll. He d. uum. but half an hour after his brother, of the same sickness ami iu tlio same place (*) At his death the Dukedom tif Su/ulk became extinct.^) VII. 1551 1. Henry (Grey), Marquess op Dorset, &c, husband to of Frances, da. of Charles ( ISiiANtus), 1st lH'KE or SUFFOLK, by 1551. his third wife, the Princess Mary, was cr,, 11 (Jet. 1551, DUKK OK SUFFOLK, Having proclaimed his da., the well known " lady Jam Qrty" as Queen, alter the death, ti July 1553, of Eil. VI., he was beheaded '23 b'eb, 1553/1, when, having been attainted, alt hit honour* became /ur/citwf| the Dukedom of Suffolk, as he d. s.p.m., becoming also extinct. See fuller particulars under " DoBSBI " Manpuessate, cr, 1475, sui. the 3d Marquess ; ix. 1551. See vol. vi, p. 93, note "c," sub " Lincoln. ( b ) See vol. vi, p. 429, iu the corrigenda to p. <<3, lino 19. ( c ) l'robably a unique example of u Dukedom unaccompanied by any other peerage titles. (•') The pmtraits of these two brothers, by Holbein, are engraved by Bartolocn, that of Henry being also given iu "l>o,/ti: They appear to have been wonderfully proficient in learning. Tie ir lives were written by their tutor, Thomas Wilson, afterwards Sec. of State, their fate having created .1 deep impression on Society. Wilson calls the elder brother " uuimosus, fortis, robustus et ad militarem disciplinatu lion faetus sed natus, ' and the younger one " lion robustus sed elegans." (°) Having no brother or sister of the wkoU blood, and his father's brother and sister, William and Anne (who were living 1496;, having d. s.p. (probably when but children) the estates, according to the law of that period, devolved on the descendants of the numerous daughters of his great grandfather, Sir William Brandon, the aunts of t" e 1st Duke. Seep. 308, note "e." There were, however, 1 sisters of the 'hi'/ bleiiil, viz., 2 by Anne Browne and 2 by the Princess Mary. As to the former, (1) Anne, m. firstly Edward (Grey Lord Urey de l'owis (who d. s.p. legit. 2 July 1551), and secondly Handle Hauworth, and d s.p. Jan. 1557/8. (2) Mary, in. Thomas (Stanley), Lord Monteagle, and d. between 1540 and 1547, leaving issue. As to the latter sisters their royal descent makes them well known, their descendants being, under the act for the Protestant succession, next in retention to the throne of England, failing the line of .Brunswick " [" deneulogitt," 1st S., vol. ii.. p. 268]. These two were (1) I 1 ranees, who m., firstly, Henry (Orey), Marquess of Dorset ami Duke of Suffolk (by whom she was mother of Jane, sometime Queen of England), and, secondly, Adrian Stokes ; and (2) Eleanor, ni. Henry (Clifford), 2d Eurl o£ Cumberland.