Biography of Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis 1507-1557

Paternal Family Tree: Brandon

Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Grey Baroness Fitzhugh 1364-1427

In 1507 Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis was born illegitimately to Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 23) and Anne Browne.

Before 07 Feb 1507 [her father] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 23) and Margaret Neville (age 41) were married. She the daughter of John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu and Isabel Ingaldsthorpe. They were half fourth cousins. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

After 07 Feb 1507 [her father] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 23) and Margaret Neville (age 41) were divorced. The marriage was declared void, the reason is unknown, by the Archdeaconry Court of London, and later by papal bull dated 12 May 1528.

In 1508 [her father] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 24) and [her mother] Anne Browne were married secretly at Stepney [Map]. She, Anne, being the step-daughter of his first wife's (age 42) sister Lucy Neville (age 40). They, Charles and Anne, had possibly been betrothed before his marriage to Margaret Neville.

In 1511 [her mother] Anne Browne died.

In 1513 [her father] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 29) was betrothed to Elizabeth Grey Countess Devon (age 7). He was created 1st Viscount Lisle in recognition of the betrothal.

In 1514 [her father] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 30) was created 1st Duke Suffolk by King Henry VIII of England and Ireland (age 22).

In May 1515 [her father] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 31) and Mary Tudor Queen Consort France (age 19) were married. She by marriage Duchess Suffolk. She had married Louis XII King France in Oct 1514; he had died on 01 Jan 1515. Around this time he surrendered the title Viscount Lisle which he had been created in anticipation of this marriage to Elizabeth Grey Countess Devon (age 10) which never took place. Viscount Lisle forfeit. She the daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England.

In 1525 Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis (age 22) and Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis (age 18) were married. She by marriage Baroness Grey of Powis. She the illegitmate daughter of Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 41) and Anne Browne. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry IV of England.

On 07 Sep 1533 [her father] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 49) and Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk (age 14) were married. She by marriage Duchess Suffolk. The difference in their ages was 35 years.

Execution of Anne Boleyn

On 19 May 1536 Queen Anne Boleyn of England (age 35) was beheaded at Tower Green, Tower of London [Map]. Unusually a sword was used. Her execution was witnessed by [her father] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 52), Catherine Carey (age 12) and Henry Fitzroy 1st Duke Richmond and Somerset (age 16). Marquess Pembroke extinct.

She was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map]. There is myth that her corpse was subsequently removed for burial at the Boleyn family church Church of St Peter and St Paul, Salle [Map] as described in Agnes Strickland’s 1852 Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4. Page 212.

In 1538 Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis (age 31) left her husband Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis (age 35) for Randal Haworth.

In 1540 Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis (age 37) petitioned the Privy Council to punish his wife Anne (age 33) for adultery, and also accused Anne and Randal Haworth of conspiring to murder him. No action was taken against Anne, and she remained with Randal Haworth; however, this scandalous arrangement caused her to be excluded from [her father] Charles Brandon's (age 56) will.

On 22 Aug 1545 [her father] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 61) died. His son [her half-brother] Henry Brandon 2nd Duke of Suffolk (age 9) succeeded 2nd Duke Suffolk.

In 1557 Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis (age 50) died.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 13 Jan 1558. The xiij day of January was bered at [Westminster] in sant Margerett parryche my lade Powes, [daughter] to the [her father] duke of Suffoke, Charles Brandon, [with two] whytt branchys, xij torchys, and iiij grett [tapers,] with xij skochyons of armes.

Note. P. 163. Funeral of lady Powis. Anne widow of Edward lord Grey of Powis, whose death occurred in p. 7. She had remarried Randle Hanworth, esq.; and by the note of his will which Dugdale gives, Baronage, ii. 284, it appears that she desired to be buried either at St. Paul's or Westminster abbey. His interment was not at the parish church of St. Margaret's, Westminster, the register of which I have examined.

Note. P. 163. Funeral of lady Powis. Though the interment of this lady (as stated in p. 362) is not recorded in the parish register of Saint Margaret's Westminster, yet the following entries relative to her funeral occur in the churchwardens' accounts:

Item, of my lady Anne Pois for iiij tapers ijs. viijd.

Item, at the obsequy of my lady Anne Poys for the belles iijs. iiijd.

Item, of my lady Anne Pois for the clothe viijd.

Ancestors of Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis 1507-1557

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Brandon

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Brandon

Great x 2 Grandmother: Ada Calthorpe

GrandFather: William Brandon 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Wingfield

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Wingfield 7 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Hastings 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Wingfield 8 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Wingfield 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Goushill

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Goushill 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 9th Earl of Surrey 11th Earl of Arundel 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Fitzalan Duchess Norfolk 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bohun Countess Arundel and Surrey Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Father: Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Ingram le Bruyn

Great x 2 Grandfather: Morice Bruyn

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund de la Pole

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Pole

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Bruyn aka Darcy

GrandMother: Elizabeth Bruyn

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Darcy

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Darcy

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Dracy

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Darcy

Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Browne

GrandFather: Anthony Browne 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fitzalan 1st Baron Arundel Baron Maltravers 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Fitzalan Baron Maltravers 2nd Baron Arundel 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Maltravers 2nd Baroness Maltravers Baroness Arundel and Cobham 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Fitzalan 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Despencer 1st Baron Despencer, Baron Burghesh 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Despencer Baroness Zouche, Harringworth, Maltravers and Arundel 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Burghesh 3rd Baron Burghesh 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Eleanor Fitzalan 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Moyns

Mother: Anne Browne 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Ughtred 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Ughtred 3rd Baron Ughtred 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Ughtred 4th Baron Ughtred 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Godard

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Godard Baroness Ughtred

Great x 4 Grandmother: Constance Sutton Baroness Haversham

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Ughtred 5th Baron Ughtred 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Aske

Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Aske Countess Suffolk 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Gascoigne

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Gascoigne 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Mowbray 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

GrandMother: Eleanor Ughtred 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Eure

Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Eure

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Grey

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Eure

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Aton 2nd Baron Aton

Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Aton

Great x 1 Grandmother: Catherine Eure Baroness Ughtred 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Fitzhugh 2nd Baron Fitzhugh

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Fitzhugh 3rd Baron Fitzhugh

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Scrope Baroness Fitzhugh

Great x 2 Grandmother: Maud Fitzhugh 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Grey 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Grey Baroness Fitzhugh 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Royal Ancestors of Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis 1507-1557

Ancestors of Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis 1507-1557