Biography of Anne Broughton 1513-1562

In 1510 [her father] John Broughton of Toddington, Bedfordshire (age 18) and [her mother] Anne Sapcote Countess Bedford (age 31) were married.

Before 1513 [her future husband] Thomas Cheney (age 27) and Frideswide Frowyk were married.

In 1513 Anne Broughton was born to John Broughton of Toddington, Bedfordshire (age 21) and Anne Sapcote Countess Bedford (age 34).

On 23rd January 1513 [her father] John Broughton of Toddington, Bedfordshire (age 21) died.

Before 1523 [her step-father] Richard Jerningham and [her mother] Anne Sapcote Countess Bedford (age 43) were married.

Around April 1526 [her step-father] John Russell 1st Earl Bedford (age 41) and [her mother] Anne Sapcote Countess Bedford (age 47) were married.

On 24th May 1539 Thomas Cheney (age 54) and Anne Broughton (age 26) were married. The difference in their ages was 28 years. She the daughter of John Broughton of Toddington, Bedfordshire and Anne Sapcote Countess Bedford (age 60).

On 31st May 1540 [her son] Henry Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne was born to [her husband] Thomas Cheney (age 55) and Anne Broughton (age 27).

Before 16th December 1558 [her step-son] John Cheney (age 45) and Margaret Neville (age 36) were married. He had been a ward of her father George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny.

Before 16th December 1558 [her step-son] John Cheney (age 45) died.

On 16th December 1558 [her husband] Thomas Cheney (age 73) died.

On 14th March 1559 [her mother] Anne Sapcote Countess Bedford (age 80) died. Her son [her half-brother] Francis Russell 2nd Earl Bedford (age 32) inherited Chenies Manor House, Buckinghamshire [Map]

Henry Machyn's Diary. 20th April 1562. The xx day of May they begane to make for my lady Chenne (age 49), for here buryall, a grett baner of armes [of] nuw damaske and wroth with fyne gold, and a xij dosen of skochyons of bokeram, ij dosen and vj of taffata [wrought with] fyne gold; and the sam day was Hare Machyn [the author] iijxx and vj yere, [the which] was Wedynsday in Wytsonwyke.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 16th May 1562. The xvj day of May died my lady Chenne (age 49), latt wyff of ser [her former husband] Thomas Cheyne, the warden of v porttes, and ded at Todyngton.

On 16th May 1562 Anne Broughton (age 49) died.

Henry Machyn's Diary. After 25th May 1562. [The .. day of May was the funeral of lady Cheyne (deceased), late wife of ser [her former husband] Thomas Cheyne councillor to] kyng Edward the vj and unto quen Mary and queen Elesabett (age 28) tyll he ded, and she was beried at Toddington [Map] with mony mornars; master Garter (age 52) and master Norrey (age 64) [were] the haroldes, and (the) dene of Powlles (age 45) dyd pryc[h the sermon,] for ther was grett chere, and a grett dole [as ever] in that contrey sene-iij mylles from Donstabull.

Note. P. 282. Funeral of lady Cheney. See the note on sir Thomas Cheney in p. 369. There is an effigy of the lady at Toddington; see the Topographer, 1846, vol. i. p. 156.