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KATHERINE WILLOUGHBY

KATHERINE, 12TH BARONESS WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY
KATHERINE BRANDON, DUCHESS OF SUFFOLK
KATHERINE BERTIE 

 

BIRTH: 22 Mar 1519. Parham Old Hall, Suffolk
MARRIAGE:  
1.   (Charles Brandon) 07 Sep 1533 ?London
2.  (Richard Bertie)  c.1552

DEATH: 19 Sep 1580, Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire 
BURIAL: St James's Churchyard, Spilsbury, Lincolnshire

LINEAGE
 

PARENTS:
male

WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY

11th Baron of Willoughby de Eresby


 

1482-1526

female

MARÍA DE SALINAS

born in Castile
lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon from c.1503
[Willoughby]

 

c.1490-1539

SIBLINGS:
male

HENRY WILLOUGHBY

died in infancy


 

?

male

FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY

died in infancy


 

?

SPOUSE:
charlesbrandon

CHARLES BRANDON

1st Duke of Suffolk
 

c.1484-1545

richardbertie

RICHARD BERTIE

son of Thomas Bertie
 

1516-1582

CHILDREN:
(FROM FIRST MARRIAGE TO CHARLES BRANDON d.1545):
henrybrandon

HENRY BRANDON

2nd Duke of Suffolk
 

1535-1551

charlesbrandonjr

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.
(FROM SECOND MARRIAGE TO RICHARD BERTIE):
STEP-CHILDREN FROM FIRST HUSBAND CHARLES BRANDON'S EARLIER MARRIAGES:
(CHARLES BRANDON'S SECOND MARRIAGE TO ANNE BROWNE d. c.1512):
female

ANNE BRANDON

Baroness Grey of Powys 
[Grey]

 

1507-1557

marybrandon

MARY BRANDON

Baroness Monteagle
[Stanley]

 

1510-c.1542

(CHARLES BRANDON'S THIRD MARRIAGE TO MARY TUDOR d. 1533):
francesbrandon

FRANCES BRANDON

Duchess of Suffolk
[Grey/Stokes]

 

1517-1559

eleanorbrandon

ELEANOR BRANDON

Countess of Cumberland [Clifford]

1519-1547

male

HENRY BRANDON

1st Earl of Lincoln


 

c.1523-1534

susanbertie

SUSAN(NA) BERTIE

Countess of Kent
[Grey/Wingfield]

 

1554-Aft.1611

peregrinebertie

PEREGRINE BERTIE

13th Baron of Willoughby de Eresby
 

1555-1601

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