Lady Mary Keyes (née Grey; 1545 – 1578). Youngest daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Frances Brandon, and through her mother she had a claim on the crown of England.
Mary had two sisters, Lady Jane Grey and Lady Katherine Grey.
- "Mary, only a little over four feet tall, with red hair, freckles..." http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/MaryGrey.htm
Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (1535 – 1551), styled Lord Henry Brandon before 1545. English nobleman, son of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, by his fourth wife, Catherine Willoughby.
Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (1537 – 1551), known as Lord Charles Brandon until shortly before his death. English nobleman, son of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, by his fourth wife, Catherine Willoughby.
Half-brothers of Frances Grey.
During an epidemic of the sweating sickness, the two youths died, Henry first and his younger brother was said to have died half an hour later.
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Charles Brandon, portrait miniature by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1541 _-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Henry Brandon, portrait miniature by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1541
Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (née Lady Frances Brandon; 1517 – 1559). English noblewoman. She was the second child and eldest daughter of King Henry VIII's younger sister, Princess Mary, and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. She was the mother of Lady Jane Grey, de facto Queen of England and Ireland for nine days (10 July 1553 – 19 July 1553), as well as Lady Katherine Grey and Lady Mary Grey.
Portrait of a woman, tentatively identified as Frances Grey
The Streatham portrait. According to art historian Maike Vogt-Lüerssen, the sitter was Lady Frances Grey and not Lady Jane Grey
Katherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, suo jure 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (née Willoughby; 1519 – 1580). English noblewoman living at the courts of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I. She was the fourth wife of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, who acted as her legal guardian during his third marriage to Henry VIII's sister Mary. Her second husband was Richard Bertie, a member of her household. Following Charles Brandon's death in 1545, it was rumoured that King Henry had considered marrying Katherine as his seventh wife, while he was still married to his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who was Katherine's close friend.
An outspoken supporter of the English Reformation, she fled abroad to Wesel (Germany) and later the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the reign of Queen Mary I, to avoid persecution.
Katherine and Richard Bertie's exile became the basis of a ballad by Thomas Deloney (1543–1600), The most Rare and Excellent History, Of the Duchess of Suffolks Calamity, and of Thomas Drue's play, The Life of the Duchess of Suffolk, published in 1624. It may also have been the subject of an unpublished play from 1600 by William Haughton, The English Fugitives. Katherine's second marriage to one of her servants and subsequent persecution also present parallels to the plot of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.
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| According to Polish art historian Marcin Latka, this is a portrait of Katherine Brandon by Hans Holbein the Younger (and not a portrait of Catherine Howard). |
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| Miniature by Hans Holbein the Younger |
