Paternal Family Tree: Browne
Maternal Family Tree: Aoife ni Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham 1145-1188
Around 1473 Thomas Fitzwilliam [aged 24] and [her mother] Lucy Neville [aged 5] were married. She the daughter of [her grandfather] John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu and [her grandmother] Isabel Ingaldsthorpe [aged 32].
After 1492 [her father] Anthony Browne [aged 48] and [her mother] Lucy Neville [aged 24] were married. The difference in their ages was 24 years. She the daughter of [her grandfather] John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu and [her grandmother] Isabel Ingaldsthorpe. They were fourth cousins. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Around 1502 Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester was born to Anthony Browne [aged 58] and Lucy Neville [aged 34]. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Around 17th November 1506 [her father] Anthony Browne [aged 63] died at Calais [Map].
In August 1507 Elizabeth Herbert 3rd Baroness Herbert Raglan [aged 31] died. She was buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map]. Her son [her future husband] Henry [aged 11] succeeded 4th Baron Herbert of Raglan.
In 1508 Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 24] and [her half-sister] Anne Browne were married secretly at Stepney [Map]. She, Anne, being the step-daughter of his [her aunt] first wife's [aged 42] sister [her mother] Lucy Neville [aged 40]. They, Charles and Anne, had possibly been betrothed before his marriage to Margaret Neville. They were fifth cousins.
In November 1513 [her half-brother] William Fitzwilliam 1st Earl of Southampton [aged 23] and [her sister-in-law] Mabel Clifford Countess Southampton [aged 31] were married. They were half third cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 15th June 1514 [her future husband] Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [aged 18] and Margaret Courtenay Countess of Worcester [aged 15] were married. She by marriage Countess Worcester. She the daughter of William Courtenay 1st Earl Devon and Catherine York Countess Devon [aged 34]. He the son of [her future father-in-law] Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 54] and Elizabeth Herbert 3rd Baroness Herbert Raglan. They were second cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a granddaughter of King Edward IV of England.
In 1524 [her daughter] Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape was born to [her future husband] Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [aged 28] and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 22]. She married before 1545 her fourth cousin John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape, son of John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer and Dorothy de Vere, and had issue.
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Before 1526 Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [aged 29] and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Countess Worcester. He the son of Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 65] and Elizabeth Herbert 3rd Baroness Herbert Raglan. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
In 1526 [her son] William Somerset 3rd Earl of Worcester was born to [her husband] Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [aged 30] and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 24]. He married before 1550 Christina North Countess of Worcester, daughter of Edward North 1st Baron North and Alice Squier Baroness North, and had issue.
On 15th March 1526 [her father-in-law] Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 66] died. He was buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map]. His son [her husband] Henry [aged 30] succeeded 2nd Earl Worcester.
Around 1530 [her daughter] Jane Somerset was born to [her husband] Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [aged 34] and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 28]. She married Edward Mansel of Margam and had issue.
In 1532 [her son] Francis Somerset was born to [her husband] Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [aged 36] and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 30].
Around 27th March 1534 [her mother] Lucy Neville [aged 66] died at Bagshot Manor, Surrey.
Letters and Papers. Vienna Archives. 284. Death and Burial of Katharine of Arragon.
The good Queen [deceased] died in a few days, of God knows what illness, on Friday, 7 Jan. 1536. Next day her body was taken into the Privy Chamber and placed under the canopy of State (sous le dhoussier et drapt destat), where it rested seven days, without any other solemnity than four flambeaux continually burning. During this time a leaden coffin was prepared, in which the body was enclosed on Saturday, the 15th, and borne to the chapel. The vigils of the dead were said the same day, and next day one mass and no more, without any other light than six torches of rosin. On Sunday, the 16th, the body was removed again into the Privy Chamber, where it remained till Saturday following. Meanwhile an "estalage," which we call a chapelle ardente, was arranged, with 56 wax candles in all, and the house hung with two breadths of the lesser frieze of the country. On Saturday, the 22nd, it was again brought to the chapel, and remained until the masses of Thursday following, during which time solemn masses were said in the manner of the country, at which there assisted by turns as principals the Duchess of Suffolk [aged 16], the Countess of Worcester [aged 34], the young Countess of Oxford [aged 39], the Countess of Surrey [aged 19], and Baronesses Howard [aged 21], Willoughby [aged 24], Bray, and Gascon (sic).
25th January 1536. On Tuesday1 following, as they were beginning mass, four banners of crimson taffeta were brought, two of which bore the arms of the Queen, one those of England, with three "lambeaulx blancs," which they say are of Prince Arthur; the fourth had the two, viz., of Spain and England, together. There were also four great golden [standards]. On one was painted the Trinity, on the second Our Lady, on the third St. Katharine, and on the fourth St. George; and by the side of these representations the said arms were depicted in the above order; and in like manner the said arms were simply, and without gilding (? dourance), painted and set over all the house, and above them a simple crown, distinguished from that of the kingdom which is closed. On Wednesday after the robes of the Queen's 10 ladies were completed, who had not till then made any mourning, except with kerchiefs on their heads and old robes. This day, at dinner, the countess of Surrey held state, who at the vigils after dinner was chief mourner. On Thursday, after mass, which was no less solemn than the vigils of the day before, the body was carried from the chapel and put on a waggon, to be conveyed not to one of the convents of the Observant Friars, as the Queen had desired before her death, but at the pleasure of the King, her husband, to the Benedictine Abbey of Peterborough, and they departed in the following order:—First, 16 priests or clergymen in surplices went on horseback, without saying a word, having a gilded laten cross borne before them; after them several gentlemen, of whom there were only two of the house, "et le demeurant estoient tous emprouvez," and after them followed the maître d'hotel and chamberlain, with their rods of office in their hands; and, to keep them in order, went by their sides 9 or 10 heralds, with mourning hoods and wearing their coats of arms; after them followed 50 servants of the aforesaid gentlemen, bearing torches and "bâtons allumés," which lasted but a short time, and in the middle of them was drawn a waggon, upon which the body was drawn by six horses all covered with black cloth to the ground. The said waggon was covered with black velvet, in the midst of which was a great silver cross; and within, as one looked upon the corpse, was stretched a cloth of gold frieze with a cross of crimson velvet, and before and behind the said waggon stood two gentlemen ushers with mourning hoods looking into the waggon, round which the said four banners were carried by four heralds and the standards with the representations by four gentlemen. Then followed seven ladies, as chief mourners, upon hackneys, that of the first being harnessed with black velvet and the others with black cloth. After which ladies followed the waggon of the Queen's gentlemen; and after them, on hackneys, came nine ladies, wives of knights. Then followed the waggon of the Queen's chambermaids; then her maids to the number of 36, and in their wake followed certain servants on horseback.
In this order the royal corpse was conducted for nine miles of the country, i.e., three French leagues, as far as the abbey of Sautry [Map], where the abbot and his monks received it and placed it under a canopy in the choir of the church, under an "estalage" prepared for it, which contained 408 candles, which burned during the vigils that day and next day at mass. Next day a solemn mass was chanted in the said abbey of Sautry [Map], by the Bishop of Ely, during which in the middle of the church 48 torches of rosin were carried by as many poor men, with mourning hoods and garments. After mass the body was borne in the same order to the abbey of Peterborough, where at the door of the church it was honourably received by the bishops of Lincoln, Ely, and Rochester, the Abbot of the place, and the abbots of Ramsey, Crolain (Crowland), Tournan (Thorney), Walden and Thaem (Tame), who, wearing their mitres and hoods, accompanied it in procession till it was placed under the chapelle ardente which was prepared for it there, upon eight pillars of beautiful fashion and roundness, upon which were placed about 1,000 candles, both little and middle-sized, and round about the said chapel 18 banners waved, of which one bore the arms of the Emperor, a second those of England, with those of the King's mother, prince Arthur, the Queen of Portugal, sister of the deceased, Spain, Arragon, and Sicily, and those of Spain and England with three "lambeaulx," those of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, who married the daughter of Peter the Cruel, viz., "le joux des beufz," the bundle of Abbot of arrows, the pomegranate (granade), the lion and the greyhound. Likewise there were a great number of little pennons, in which were portrayed the devices of king Ferdinand, father of the deceased, and of herself; and round about the said chapel, in great gold letters was written, as the device of the said good lady, "Humble et loyale." Solemn vigils were said that day, and on the morrow the three masses by three bishops: the first by the Bishop of Rochester, with the Abbot of Thame as deacon, and the Abbot of Walden as sub-deacon; the second by the Bishop of Ely, with the Abbot of Tournay (Thorney) as deacon, and the Abbot of Peterborough as sub-deacon; the third by the Bishop of Lincoln [aged 63], with the Bishop of Llandaff as deacon, and that of Ely as sub-deacon; the other bishops and abbots aforesaid assisting at the said masses in their pontificals, so the ceremony was very sumptuous. The chief mourner was lady Eleanor [aged 17], daughter of the Duke of Suffolk [aged 52] and the French Queen, and niece of King Henry, widower now of the said good Queen. She was conducted to the offering by the Comptroller and Mr. Gust (Gostwick), new receiver of the moneys the King takes from the Church. Immediately after the offering was completed the Bishop of Rochester preached the same as all the preachers of England for two years have not ceased to preach, viz., against the power of the Pope, whom they call Bishop of Rome, and against the marriage of the said good Queen and the King, alleging against all truth that in the hour of death she acknowledged she had not been Queen of England. I say against all truth, because at that hour she ordered a writing to be made in her name addressed to the King as her husband, and to the ambassador of the Emperor, her nephew, which she signed with these words—Katharine, Queen of England—commending her ladies and servants to the favour of the said ambassador. At the end of the mass all the mourning ladies offered in the hands of the heralds each three ells in three pieces of cloth of gold which were upon the body, and of this "accoutrements" will be made for the chapel where the annual service will be performed for her. After the mass the body was buried in a grave at the lowest step of the high altar, over which they put a simple black cloth. In this manner was celebrated the funeral of her who for 27 years has been true Queen of England, whose holy soul, as every one must believe, is in eternal rest, after worldly misery borne by her with such patience that there is little need to pray God for her; to whom, nevertheless, we ought incessantly to address prayers for the weal (salut) of her living image whom she has left to us, the most virtuous Princess her daughter, that He may comfort her in her great and infinite adversities, and give her a husband to his pleasure, &c. Fr., from a modern copy, pp. 6.
Note 1. This would be Tuesday, 1 Feb., if the chronology were strict; but the latest Tuesday that can be intended is 25 Jan.
Life of Anne Boleyn by Lancelot du Carle. Here is the beginning of the end of Anne Boleyn. The Letter describes a Lord berating his sister for being flirtatious; we don't know when that conversation occurred. She, in response, and to deflect criticism from herself, points out that Queen Anne has been behaving much worse, with Anne's musician Mark Smeaton, and that Queen Anne has been having 'carnal intimacy' with her brother George Boleyn.
John Hussee's letter to Honour Grenville, Lady Lisle, wife of Henry's illegitimate uncle Arthur, Viscount Lisle, on the 24th of May 1536 [See Letter] has 'As to the confession of the Queen and others, they said little or nothing; but what was said was wondrous discreetly spoken. The first accuser, the lady Worcester [aged 34], and Nan Cobham with one maid mo; but the Lady Worcester was the first ground'. Hussee repeats the claim on the 25th of May 1536: 'As to the Queen's accusers my lady Worcester is said to be the principal.'
The 'most feared Lord of the Council who was brother to Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester is William Fitzwilliam 1st Earl of Southampton [aged 46] who in 1536 was Lord Treasurer and on the Privy Council. He was Elizabeth's maternal half-brother.
| Une des Seigneurs du Conseil plus esfroit | A most feared Lord of the Council |
| Voyant sa soeur, qui mainctz signes faisoit | seeing his sister, who was making many signs |
| D'aymer aulcuns par amour deshonneste | of loving someone dishonestly |
| Par bon Conseil fraternel l'admoneste | by good fraternal advice admonished her |
| Qu'elle acqueiot une hontesuse fame | that she was gaining a shameful reputation |
| De mal vivante, et impudicque femme | of bad living, and being a shameless woman, |
| Et grandement son honneur blesseroit | and her honour would be greatly harmed |
| Si de peché tost ne se retiroit | if the sin was not reined in. |
| Adonc voyant cogneue son offense | Having recognised her offense, she said |
| Je cognois bien dist elle que l'on pense | I know well, she said, that you think |
| Que j'ay faulse de loyaulté less droictz | I have violated the rights of loyalty. |
| Le vous nier mon frere le vouldroi | I would deny it to you, my brother, |
| Mais on veiot bien une petite faulte | but I will admit a small fault |
| En moy laissant une beaucoup plus haulte | leaving one much greater one |
| Qui porte effect de plus grand prejudice | who carries a much greater harm |
| Et s'il failloit que du tout je vous diste | if I had to tell you everything |
| Vous cognoistriez que moins de seureté | you would recognise that less security |
| Ya une plus on pente loyaulté, | inclines towards greater loyalty, |
| Mais vous messieurs jugez les columbeaulx | But you sirs judge the doves |
| Et pardonnez aux infames Corbeaulx | And pardon the infamous Crows1. |
| Ainsi vouloit ses faultes admortir | She wanted her faults reduced |
| Par ses pechez en aultre convertir | by turning her sins on another which |
| Une plus petit quand declaré seroit | would be smaller when those were revealed |
| Et commença asseurer son excuse | and began to assure her excuse |
| En luy disant que la plus malheureuse | by saying that the most unfortunate |
| Qui oncques femme dessoubz les cieulx | woman who ever was under the skies |
| Estoit le Royne, et pour le sçavoir mieulx | was the Queen, to know it better. |
| Si n'en voulez mon asseurance croyre | If you don't want to believe me |
| De Marc sçaurez; dist elle dest histoire | Smeaton knows; she said of the story |
| Mais ne veulx oublier a vous dire | but I don't want to forget to tell you |
| Une poinct de tous me semble le pire | one point that seems to me to be worse |
| C'est que souvent son frere est avec elle | it's because her brother is often with her |
| Dedans son lict accointance charnelle | in her bed, in carnal intimacy. |
Note 1. A proverb by Roman poet Juvenal 'Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas' ie 'The judge forgives the crows and harasses the doves' meaning justice may not be as blind as is desirable, or a warning to be cautious of how we judge others, as we may be too fast to condemn those who are innocent.
Letters and Papers. 3rd May 1536. Otho, C. x. 225. B. M. Ellis, i Ser. II. 53. Singer's Cavendish, ii. 217. 793. Sir William Kingston [aged 60] to [Cromwell].
On my Lord of Norfolk [aged 63] and the King's Council departing from the Tower, I went before the Queen [aged 35] into her lodging. She said unto me, "Mr. Kingston, shall I go into a dungeon?" I said, "No, Madam. You shall go into the lodging you lay in at your coronation." "It is too g[ood] for me, she said; Jesu have mercy on me;" and kneeled down, weeping a [good] pace, and in the same sorrow fell into a great laughing, as she has done many times since. "She desyred me to move the Kynges hynes that she [might] have the sacarment in the closet by hyr chamber, that she my[ght pray] for mercy, for I am as clere from the company of man as for s[in as I] am clear from you, and am the Kynges trew wedded wyf. And then s[he said], Mr. Kynston, do you know wher for I am here? and I sayd, Nay. And th[en she asked me], When saw you the Kynge? and I sayd I saw hym not syns I saw [him in] the Tylte Yerde. And then, Mr. K., I pray you to telle me wher my [Lord, my fa]der [Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 59]], ys? And I told hyr I saw hym afore dyner in the Cort. O[where is m]y sweet broder [aged 33]? I sayd I left hym at York Place; and so I dyd. I [hear say, sai]d she, that I shuld be accused with iij. men; and I can say [no more but] nay, withyowt I shuld oppen my body. And ther with opynd her gown. O, No[res] [aged 54], hast thow accused me? Thow ar in the Towre with me, [and thow you and I shall] dy together; and, Marke [aged 24], thow art here to. O, my mother [aged 56], [thou wilt die with] sorow; and myche lamented my lady of Worceter [aged 34], for by c[ause that her child di]d not store in hyre body. And my wyf sayd, what shuld [be the cause? And she sai]d, for the sorow she toke for me. And then she sayd, Mr. [Kyngston, shall I die with]yowt justes? And I sayd, the porest sugett the Ky[ng hath, hath justice. And t]her with she lawed. Alle thys sayinges was yesterny[ght] .... and thys mornyng dyd talke with Mestrys Co[fyn. And she said, Mr. Norr]es Henry Norreys dyd say on Sunday last [30th April 1536] unto the Quenes am[ner that he would s]vere for the Quene that she was a gud woman. [And then said Mrs.] Cofyn [aged 36], Madam, Why shuld ther be hony seche maters [spoken of? Marry,] sayd she, I bad hym do so: for I asked hym why he [did not go through with] hys maryage [to Margaret "Madge" Shelton], and he made ansure he wold tary [a time. Then I said, Y]ou loke for ded men's showys, for yf owth ca[m to the King but good], you would loke to have me. And he sayd yf he [should have any such thought] he wold hys hed war of. And then she sayd [she could undo him if she wou]ld; and ther with thay felle yowt, bot .... and sayd on Wysson Twysday last .... that Nores cam more .. age and further ....
"Wher I was commaunded to charge the gentelwomen that gyfes thayr atendans apon the Quene, that ys to say thay shuld have now (i.e., no) commynycasion with hyr in lese my wyf [aged 60] ware present; and so I dyd hit, notwithstandynge it canot be so, for my Lady Bolen and Mestrys Cofyn lyes on the Quenes palet, and I and my wyf at the dore with yowt, so at thay must nedes talke at be within; bot I have every thynge told me by Mestrys Cofyn that she thinkes met for you to know, and tother ij. gentelweymen lyes withyowt me, and as I may knowe t[he] Kynges plesure in the premysses I shalle folow. From the Towre, thys morny[ng].
"Sir, syns the makynge of thys letter the Quene spake of Wes[ton [Francis Weston [aged 25]], saying that she] had spoke to hym bycause he did love hyr kynswoman [Mrs. Skelton, and] sayd he loved not hys wyf [aged 22], and he made ansere to hyr [again that h]e loved wone in hyr howse better then them bothe. And [the Queen said, Who is] that? It ys yourself. And then she defyed hym, as [she said to me]. William Kyngston."
Hol.
On 15th May 1536 Queen Anne Boleyn [aged 35] tried at the King's Hall in the Tower of London [Map].
Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk [aged 63] was appointed Lord High Steward and presided. Henry Howard Earl of Surrey [aged 20] attended. Henry Pole 1st Baron Montagu [aged 44] was one of the judges. Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 34] was the principal witness.
The jurors were:
Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 52].
Edward Clinton 1st Earl Lincoln [aged 24].
Thomas Fiennes 9th Baron Dacre Gilsland [aged 21].
George Hastings 1st Earl Huntingdon [aged 49].
Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland [aged 44].
John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt [aged 56].
Ralph Neville 4th Earl of Westmoreland [aged 38].
Henry Parker 11th Baron Marshal 10th Baron Morley [aged 55].
Edward Stanley 3rd Earl of Derby [aged 27].
Thomas Stanley 2nd Baron Monteagle [aged 28].
John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford [aged 65].
Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth [aged 35].
[her husband] Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [aged 40].
Henry Percy 5th Earl of Northumberland.
Thomas Burgh 7th Baron Cobham 5th Baron Strabolgi 1st Baron Burgh [aged 48].
Henry Courtenay 1st Marquess Exeter [aged 40].
William Fitzalan 11th or 18th Earl of Arundel [aged 60].
Henry Fitzalan 12th or 19th Earl of Arundel [aged 24].
Thomas Audley 1st Baron Audley Walden [aged 48].
Edward Powers Lord Powers.
William Sandys 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne [aged 66].
Thomas Ware.
Andrew Windsor 1st Baron Windsor [aged 69].
George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 39].
She was found guilty and sentenced to be beheaded. John Spelman [aged 56] signed the death warrant.
After Anne's trial her brother George Boleyn Viscount Rochford [aged 33] was also tried and found guilty.
Letters and Papers. 24th May 1536. R. O. 953. John Husee to Lady Lisle [aged 42].
I have received three sundry letters from you and a token by Petly. As to lord Daubny, your counsel advise you by no means to procure any proviso against him, but to get some of his familiar friends to inform you of his intentions, and if he purpose to sell any lands which should descend to Mr. Basset he can be stopped. But if you prefer having a proviso by Act I will endeavour to obtain it. I think Mr. Geo. Rolles dissembleth not; if he do, he is a very fine fox. He and Mr. Degory, and two of my lord Dawbney's counsel, were yesterday reasoning in Westminster Hall concerning Calstok and Lamkessey, but they could show nothing of the manner in which Mr. Basset was made sure of the annuity of 26s. 8d., and deferred that to my lord Dawbney's coming; but if Mr. Cobbleyghe keep promise you need not fear the wood sale. As to the warren and free market you wrote of, I hope ere long to espy a time, but I wish my Lord's suit were first at a point. I have shown Bery my mind about your weir,—to make it up as all other be made. I have bespoken two dozen bowls which will be sent by Hugh Colton, and I will procure for you some lanards if they can be got. I am glad you have pleased Campion. As for salt fish, you will not believe how dear it is, both ling and haberden. I have delivered Thorne's letter at his brother's house. As to the confession of the Queen and others, they said little or nothing; but what was said was wondrous discreetly spoken. "The first accuser, the lady Worcester [aged 34], and Nan Cobham [aged 35] [Note. The attrbution of Nan Cobham to Anne Braye is disputed?] with one maid mo; but the lady Worcester was the first ground." London, 24 May.
Hol., p. 1. Add.
Letters and Papers. 25 May 1536. 964. John Husee to Lady Lisle [aged 42].
I received your letter by my fellow Fyssher. Touching your weir Mr. Dygory is determined to do as much as the statute will bear, and as others do to theirs. This is Popley's counsel. As to your warren and free market I will set forth the same when I spy a time convenient. Mr. Degory and Bury have this day gone to Devonshire. Your woman shall be sent by Whitsunday, and shall bring with her the extract of Anthony Huse's cushion, to whose wife I will give your Ladyship's thanks. At Mr. Treasurer's coming I shall deliver him the puncheon of wine, and report by my next if it was thankfully received. If your Ladyship send Mr. Basset 5 marks or 4l. he will keep it as wisely as if he were 20 years older; but as he is to return after Whitsuntide you need not send it till then. My Lord never wrote to me for bows. You will receive by Petley 1,000 pins that Bury delivered me. I have written your Ladyship all that your counsel can yet say about lord Dawbny. London, 25 May.
As to the Queen's accusers my lady Worcester [aged 34] is said to be the principal. "Your ladyship hath two nieces with the Queen, daughters to Mr. Arundell."
Hol., p. 1. Add.: In Calais.
In 1538 [her daughter] Anne Somerset Countess Northumberland was born to [her husband] Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [aged 42] and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 36]. She married 22nd June 1558 her third cousin Thomas Percy 7th Earl of Northumberland and had issue.
On 15th October 1542 [her half-brother] William Fitzwilliam 1st Earl of Southampton [aged 52] died at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland [Map]. Earl of Southampton extinct. [her brother] Anthony Browne [aged 42] inherited Cowdray House [Map].
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Before 1545 [her son-in-law] John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape [aged 24] and Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape [aged 20] were married. She by marriage Baroness Latimer of Snape. She the daughter of Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [aged 48] and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 42]. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 17th October 1549 [her husband] Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [aged 53] died. His son William [aged 23] succeeded 3rd Earl Worcester, 5th Baron Herbert of Raglan.
Before 1550 William Somerset 3rd Earl of Worcester [aged 23] and Christina North Countess of Worcester were married. She by marriage Countess Worcester. He the son of Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 47].
On 22nd June 1558 [her son-in-law] Thomas Percy 7th Earl of Northumberland [aged 30] and Anne Somerset Countess Northumberland [aged 20] were married. She by marriage Countess of Northumberland. She the daughter of Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 56]. They were third cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 22nd July 1563 [her son] Francis Somerset [aged 31] died.
In 1565 Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 63] died.
[her son] Thomas Somerset was born to Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester.
[her son] Charles Somerset was born to Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester.
[her daughter] Eleanor Somerset was born to Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester.
[her father] Anthony Browne and Eleanor Ughtred were married.
King Edward III of England 1312 1377
John of Gaunt 1st Duke Lancaster 1340 1399
Ralph Neville 1st Earl of Westmoreland 1364 1425
Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmoreland 1379 1440
John Neville 3rd Baron Neville of Raby 1337 1388
Maud Percy Baroness Neville Raby
Alice Montagu 5th Countess of Salisbury 1407 1462
Richard Neville Earl Salisbury 1400 1460
Kings Wessex: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 4 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 10 Grand Daughter of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 10 Grand Daughter of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Grandfather: Thomas Browne 
Father: Anthony Browne 6 x Great Grandson of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 3rd or 10th Earl of Arundel 8th Earl of Surrey 
5 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Fitzalan 1st Baron Arundel Baron Maltravers 2 x Great Grandson of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Plantagenet Countess Arundel and Surrey 
Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Fitzalan Baron Maltravers 2nd Baron Arundel 3 x Great Grandson of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Maltravers 4 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Maltravers 2nd Baroness Maltravers Baroness Arundel and Cobham 5 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gwenllian Unknown
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Fitzalan 4 x Great Grandson of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Despencer 
Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Despencer 1st Baron Despencer, Baron Burghesh 2 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Ferrers 
6 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Despencer Baroness Zouche, Harringworth, Maltravers and Arundel 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh 
5 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Burghesh 3rd Baron Burghesh 5 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Cecily Weyland 4 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Grandmother: Eleanor Fitzalan 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Moyns
Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Neville 2nd Baron Neville of Raby 
6 x Great Grandson of King David I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Neville 3rd Baron Neville of Raby 4 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Audley Baroness Greystoke and Neville 
3 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ralph Neville 1st Earl of Westmoreland 5 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Percy 10th and 2nd Baron Percy 5 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Percy Baroness Neville Raby 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Idonia Clifford Baroness Percy 
4 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Neville Earl Salisbury Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Edward III of England 
son of King Edward II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John of Gaunt 1st Duke Lancaster son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Philippa of Hainaut Queen Consort England Great Granddaughter of King Philip III of France
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmoreland 
Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Giles "Payne" Roet 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Swynford aka Roet Duchess Lancaster
Grandfather: John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu 2 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Montagu 1st Baron Montagu, Baron Monthermer 
11 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Montagu 3rd Earl Salisbury 2 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Monthermer Baroness Montagu 3rd Baroness Monthermer 
Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Montagu 1st Count Perche 4th Earl Salisbury 3 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Adam Francis
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Francis Countess of Salisbury
Great x 1 Grandmother: Alice Montagu 5th Countess of Salisbury 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Holland 1st Earl Kent 
4 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Kent Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" Princess Wales Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Holland 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 3rd or 10th Earl of Arundel 8th Earl of Surrey 5 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Fitzalan Countess Kent 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Plantagenet Countess Arundel and Surrey Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England
Mother: Lucy Neville 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Ingaldsthorpe
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Ingaldsthorpe
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Ingaldsthorpe
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Burgh
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Burgh
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edmund Ingaldsthorpe
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund de la Pole 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Pole
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Pole
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Bradeston
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bradeston
Grandmother: Isabel Ingaldsthorpe 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tiptoft 2nd Baron Tibetot 
4 x Great Grandson of King William I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Pain Tiptoft 5 x Great Grandson of King William I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Aspall Baroness Tibetot
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft 6 x Great Grandson of King William I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Wrothe
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Tiptoft 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Charleton 3rd Baron Cherleton 5 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Charleton 5th Baron Cherleton 3 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Stafford Baroness Cherleton and Talbot 
2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joyce Charleton Baroness Tiptoft 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Kent Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Fitzalan Countess Kent 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England