Biography of John Braye 2nd Baron Braye -1557

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John Braye 2nd Baron Braye was born to [his father] Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye and [his mother] Jane Halwell Baroness Bray.

On 21st February 1497 [his father] Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye [aged 13] and [his mother] Jane Halwell Baroness Bray were married. She by marriage Baroness Braye.

In 1517 [his brother-in-law] George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 20] and [his sister] Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 15] were married.

On 19th July 1529 Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham [aged 59] died. He was buried at St Mary Magdalene New Churchyard, Cobham. His son [his brother-in-law] George [aged 32] succeeded 9th Baron Cobham. [his sister] Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 28] by marriage Baroness Cobham.

On 18th October 1539 [his father] Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye [aged 55] died. His son John succeeded 2nd Baron Braye. As a minor he was placed under the wardship of [his future father-in-law] Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 39]. He would later marry Talbot's daughter [his future wife] Anne Talbot Baroness Braye and Wharton [aged 15].

In 1546 [his brother-in-law] Edmund Brydges 2nd Baron Chandos [aged 24] and [his sister] Dorothy Braye Baroness Chandos and Knollys [aged 22] were married.

Diary of Edward VI. 16th April 1550. The thre hostiages aforsaid cam to London, being met at Detford with the lord Graye of Wilton [aged 41], lord Bray, with divers other gentihnen to the nomber of twenty, and serving men an hundred, and so brought into the cite, and lodged there, and kept houses every man by themself.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 2nd November 1551. The ij day of November cam to Londun from Hamton courtte [Map] and landyd at Benard castyll [Map] the old Qwyne of Schottes [aged 35], and cam rydyng to the bysshope('s) palles at Powlles with many lordes, the duke of Suffoke [aged 34], my lord marqwes of Northamptun [aged 39], my lord of Warwyke [aged 24], the lord Welebe [aged 34], my lord Haward [aged 41], my lord Rosselle [aged 66], lord Bray, and dyvers mo lords and knyghtes and gentyllmen, and then cam the Qwyne of Schottes and alle owre lades and her gentyll women and owre gentyll women to the nomber of a C. and ther was sent her mony grett gyftes by the mayre and aldermen, as beyffes, mottuns, velles, swines, bred, wylld ffulle, wyne, bere, spysys, and alle thyngs, and qwaylles, sturgeon, wod and colles, and samons, by dyver men.

Note. Visit of the old queen of Scots. The queen dowager of Scotland (Mary of Guise) embarked at Edinburgh to visit her daughter in France, Sept. 7, 1550. On her return she landed at Portsmouth on the 2d Nov. 1551. (Lettres de Marie Stuart, edited by the Prince Alexandre Labanoff, 8vo. 1844, vol. i. 5.) The privy council addressed, "25 Sept. 1551. A Letter to the lord chauncelor requiring him to passe under the greate seal a saulf-conduct graunted by the kinges majestie to the dowager of Scotlande, and to retayne with him for a record the originall thereof sent him signed by his highnes." The saulf-conduct itself is printed in Rymer's Collection, xv. 290: it bears an earlier date, viz. 17 Sept. Some subsequent minutes of the Privy Council relating to preparations for this visit are given by Strype. There are many particulars of it in king Edward's Diary, and a narrative of the queen's reception is in MS. Harl. 290, art. 2.

Note. Funeral of sir Michael Lyster. The name of the lord chief justice of the king's bench was sir Richard Lyster, but that of his eldest son, here recorded, was sir Michael. See the memoir on the monument of sir Richard Lyster at St. Michael's church, Southampton, by Sir F. Madden, in the Winchester volume of the Archæological Institute. There is a portrait of a lady Lyster among the Holbein Heads: it may be doubtful to which lady of the name it belongs (see the pedigree given by Sir F. Madden); but Mr. Lodge, in his accompanying memoir, supposed it to be that of lady Mary, daughter of the earl of Southampton, wife of sir Richard, grandson of the chief justice. (See her funeral afterwards, p. 273.)

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Henry Machyn's Diary. 7th December 1551. The vij day of Desember at Hyd parke [Map] a gret muster of men of armes: the furst the kynges trumpeters; [then] my lord Bray, in gylt harnes, captayn of the pe[nsioners, and a] gret baner of the kynges armes; and then cam the pensyoners in caumplet harnes, and gret hars, in [white and] blake, v and v a ranke, and after them cam the[ir servants, in number] a C. with grett harse, and harnes in whyt and blake, [and speres]. The secound my lord Tresorer, a C. men of arms, broderyd cott, red and whyt, and ther spers, ys [standard] a faucon of gold. The iij was [the] duke of Northumberland [aged 47], with [C. men] of armes in welvet in-brodery, trumpeters, [his standard] a lyon crounyd gold. The iiij my lord marqws Northamtun [aged 39] a C. men of armes, in yelow and [black], spers and pensels and trumpeters. The yerlle of Bedford [aged 66] a C. men of armes and [in] red and whyt, ys standard a gott whyt, and a trumpeter, and pensels and spers, cotes red and whyt and blake. The yerle of Rottland [aged 25] a C. men of armes in yelow and bluw; ys standard a pekoke, and pensels. The yerle of Huntyntun [aged 37] men of armes 1. in bluw, and speres, and standard, and pensels. The yerle of Penbroke [aged 50] C. men of armes. My [his brother-in-law] lord Cobam [aged 54] 1. men of armes, in blak and whyt. My lord Chamburlayne l. men of armes, cote(s) of whyt [and] red, and speres cotes in-brodere, and pensels. M. tresorer Cheyney a C. men of armes, all blake, and speres and pensells, by-syd costerells and geton.... and armes a-pone the blake at ... pryche the Skott of saynt Peters in Cornhyll ... the morow dyd pryche doythur Bartelett a godly ... at the berehyng was the masters and compeny of the ...

Note. Muster in Hyde Park. This is described nearly in the same terms in the King's diary. Burnet has misprinted the date Dec. 4 instead of 7.

Note. The Scot of St. Peter's in Cornhill. This preacher has been before mentioned in p. 6 as "the Skott the curett" of St. Peter's. Whether he was the same as Richardson, whose popularity as a preacher is mentioned in p. 91, has not been ascertained.

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Henry Machyn's Diary. 16th May 1552. The furst the kynges pensyonars, the lord Bray ther captayn, and the kyng's grett baner [of arms] borne of-fore of damaske, blue and red, and the trumpeters blohyng, and the pensyonars in goodly a[rray, and] in harnes from tope to the to, and goodly basses of cotes, and ther men in lyke colers of cloth.

Memoires of Jacques du Clercq

This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.

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On 12th April 1557 John Brydges 1st Baron Chandos [aged 65] died at Sudeley Castle [Map]. His son [his brother-in-law] Edmund [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Baron Chandos of Sudeley. [his sister] Dorothy Braye Baroness Chandos and Knollys [aged 33] by marriage Baroness Chandos of Sudeley.

Battle of St Quentin

Henry Machyn's Diary. 18th November 1557. [The xviij day of November died the lord Bray, within the Black-friars, near Ludgate]; the wyche he gatt ys deth [at St. Quintin's.]

On 19th November 1557 John Braye 2nd Baron Braye died from wounds received at the Battle of St Quentin. Baron Braye abeyant between his six sisters. He was buried at Chelsea Old Church. The abeyance was be terminated in 1839 in favour of Sarah Cave 3rd Baroness Braye a descendant of his sister Elizabeth Braye [aged 56].

Before 19th November 1557 John Braye 2nd Baron Braye and Anne Talbot Baroness Braye and Wharton [aged 33] were married. She by marriage Baroness Braye. She being the daughter of Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 57] who ward John had been. She the daughter of Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary Dacre.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 23rd November 1557. The xxiij day of November was cared from Blake-freres to Temes syd, and ther wher rede to grett barges covered with blake and armes hangyng for my lord Bray, and so by water to Chelsey, to be bereyd by ys father, with iiij haroldes of armes, and a standard and a baner of armes, and ij baners of emages borne by ij haroldes of armes in ther cott armurs, and so mony nobull men morners in blake, and xvj porre men had new gownes, and a xvj grett torchys, ij whytt branchys, and iiij grett tapurs, and a cott armur, elmett, target, sword, and mantylles, and a viij dosen of skochyons; and after messe, and ther wher mony prestes and clarkes, and the dener at ys plase at Blake-frers, and so they cam bake from Cheshey to dener.

Note. P. 158. Funeral of lord Bray. "John lord Bray dyed in the late Black fryers in London on thursday the xixth of November 1557 and was beryed at Chelsey in the middest of the high chauncell with his father and grand-father the 23. of November." MS. Harl. 874, f. 79.—The full narrative of his funeral, which is recorded in the College of Arms, I. 15, f. 279, has been printed by Lysons in his Environs of London, and by Faulkner in his History of Chelsea.

On 18th November 1561 Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton [aged 66] and [his former wife] Anne Talbot Baroness Braye and Wharton [aged 37] were married. She by marriage Baroness Wharton. The difference in their ages was 29 years. She the daughter of [his former father-in-law] Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary Dacre.

On 3rd February 1585 [his former wife] Anne Talbot Baroness Braye and Wharton [aged 61] died.

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