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- Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (12 October 1537 – 14 July 1551), known as Lord Charles Brandon until shortly before his death, was the son of the 1st Duke of Suffolk and the suo jure 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.
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Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (12 October 1537 – 14 July 1551), known as Lord Charles Brandon until shortly before his death, was the son of the 1st Duke of Suffolk and the suo jure 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.
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Aug 3, 2023 · Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Charles Brandon was one of King Henry VIII's most trusted advisors and friends. He married the king's sister, even when he had been trusted not too, and eventually married a lady thirty-five years younger than him.
Jan 4, 2019 · King Henry VIII had few close friends, and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, was his closest throughout his life. Brandon’s father, Sir William Brandon, was standard bearer for Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field – and is thought to have been killed by King Richard III on 22nd August, 1485. Young Charles Brandon was brought up at ...
CHARLES BRANDON, 3rd DUKE OF SUFFOLK. Son of the Charles, 1st Duke of Suffolk and his fourth wife, Catherine Willoughby. He died of the sweating sickness the same day as his brother Henry. Because his older brother died a few hours before him, Charles only held the title of Duke for that short time.
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- Duke of Suffolk
Charles Brandon descended from a family of gentry in East Anglia. His grandfather Sir William Brandon was a retainer of the Mowbray dukes of Norfolk, Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, and Marshall of the King's Bench. Sir William made an advantageous marriage before 1462 to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Wingfield of Letheringham Suffolk. They ha...
Life for a young man at court was expensive, and the typical way of remedying this problem was through marriage to an heiress. Charles Brandon's first marital adventure was complicated and possibly bigamous. His biographer Gunn calls his activities "asset-stripping opportunism."
Between 1512, when he was knighted, and 1 February 1513/14, when he was created Duke of Suffolk, Charles Brandon rose at a precipitous rate that astonished and shocked the peers who were now his fellows, notably Thomas Howard, now restored to the rank of Duke of Norfolk, who regarded Suffolk as an upstart. By 1512, Henry VIII, attempting to restore...
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In the early years of his reign, he raised Brandon up to create him Duke of Suffolk. In 1515 Charles Brandon committed treason by marrying Henry VIII’s younger sister Mary Tudor, without the King’s permission.
Charles Brandon, third Duke of Suffolk, was the younger son of Charles Brandon, first Duke of Suffolk, and his fourth wife, Katherine Willoughby. He succeeded his elder brother Henry Brandon (422294; Royal Collection) as Duke of Suffolk in 1551, but survived him for less than an hour, dying, like his brother, of the sweating sickness.
