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Brandon, Frances (1517 - 1559)

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Grey, Stokes

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1517-07-16
Death Date: 1559-11-21

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Grey, Henry (1517 - 1554)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: exactly 1533-5
    Union ended: exactly 1553-4-2
    Note: Probably married on this date; union also produced one son and one daughter who died in infancy
  2. Type: marriage
    Union began: exactly 1555-3-1
    Union ended: exactly

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Duchess of Suffolk

Titles

  • Marchioness of Dorset
    Assumed: 1533-05 (date married)
    Vacated: 1551-10-11 (date husband created to the dukedom)
  • Duchess of Suffolk
    Assumed: 1551-10-11 (date husband created to dukedom)
    Vacated: 1559-11-21

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Bibliographic Sources

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  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.