Paternal Family Tree: Browne
George Browne and Elizabeth Paston 1429-1488 were married.
Around 1422 [his father] Thomas Browne [aged 20] and [his mother] Eleanor Fitzalan -1469 were married.
In 1440 George Browne was born to Thomas Browne [aged 38] and Eleanor Fitzalan -1469 at Betchworth Castle.
On 29th July 1460 [his father] Thomas Browne [aged 58] was beheaded at Tyburn [Map].
After 29th July 1460 [his step-father] Thomas Vaughan [aged 50] and [his mother] Eleanor Fitzalan -1469 were married.
In or before 1468 [his brother] John Browne 1435-1498 [aged 32] and [his sister-in-law] Anne Belwode were married.
On 1st June 1469 [his mother] Eleanor Fitzalan -1469 died.
In 1470 George Browne [aged 30] arrested.
On 4th May 1471 King Edward IV of England [aged 29] was victorious at the 4th May 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury. His brother Richard [aged 18], Richard Beauchamp 2nd Baron Beauchamp Powick [aged 36], John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk [aged 46], George Neville 4th and 2nd Baron Abergavenny [aged 31], John Savage 1422-1495 [aged 49], John Savage [aged 27], Thomas St Leger [aged 31], John Tuchet 6th Baron Audley, 3rd Baron Tuchet [aged 45], Thomas Burgh 1st Baron Burgh of Gainsborough [aged 40] fought. William Brandon [aged 46], George Browne [aged 31], Ralph Hastings, Richard Hastings Baron Willoughby [aged 38], James Tyrrell [aged 16], Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley [aged 38] were knighted. William Hastings 1st Baron Hastings [aged 40] commanded.
Margaret of Anjou [aged 41] was captured. Her son Edward of Westminster Prince of Wales [aged 17] was killed. He was the last of the Lancastrian line excluding the illegitmate Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 11] whose line continues to the present.
John Courtenay 7th or 15th Earl Devon [aged 36] was killed and attainted. Earl Devon forfeit. Some sources refer to these titles as being abeyant?
John Wenlock 1st Baron Wenlock [aged 71] was killed. Baron Wenlock extinct.
John Delves 1422-1471 [aged 49], John Beaufort 1441-1471 [aged 30], William Vaux of Harrowden 1436-1471 [aged 35] and Robert Whittingham [aged 42] were killed.
Edmund Beaufort [aged 32], Humphrey Tuchet 1434-1471 [aged 37] and Hugh Courtenay 1427-1471 [aged 44] were captured.
Henry Roos fought and escaped to Tewkesbury Abbey [Map] where he sought sanctuary. He was subsequently pardoned.
William Carey 1437-1471 [aged 34] was killed.
Around 1476 [his son] Matthew Browne 1476-1557 was born to George Browne [aged 36] and Elizabeth Paston 1429-1488 [aged 46]. He married in or before 1501 Frideswide Guildford 1482-1525 and had issue.
In 1480 George Browne [aged 40] was appointed High Sheriff of Kent.
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In 1480 [his brother] John Browne 1435-1498 [aged 45] was appointed Lord Mayor of London.
On 17th April 1483 the coffin of Edward IV [deceased] was carried to Westminster Abbey [Map] by Edward Stanley 1st Baron Monteagle [aged 21], John Savage [aged 39], Thomas Wortley [aged 50], Thomas Molyneux 1445-1483 [aged 38], probably John Welles 1st Viscount Welles [aged 33] who had married Edward's daughter Cecily), John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne [aged 41], Walter Hungerford [aged 19], Guy Wolston [aged 50], John Sapcote [aged 35], Thomas Tyrrell 1453-1512 [aged 30], John Risley, Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland [aged 15], John Norreys, Louis de Bretelles and John Comyn 4th Lord Baddenoch 1294-1314.
Those in the procession included:
Thomas St Leger [aged 43], widow of Edward's sister Anne.
William Parr [aged 49].
William Stonor [aged 33].
Henry Ferrers 1443-1500 [aged 40].
James Radclyffe 1440-1484 [aged 43].
George Browne [aged 43].
Gilbert Debenham [aged 51].
John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk [aged 58] walked in front of the coffin with Edward's personal arms.
John Marlow Abbot Bermondsey followed by:
Bishop Thomas Kempe 1390-1489 [aged 93].
Bishop John Hales [aged 83] (Bishop of Chester?).
Bishop Robert Stillington [aged 63].
Bishop William Dudley [aged 58].
Cardinal John Morton [aged 63] (as Bishop of Ely).
Bishop Edmund Tuchet [aged 40] (as Bishop of Rochester).
Bishop Peter Courtenay, and.
Bishop Lionel Woodville [aged 36].
Archbishop Thomas Rotherham [aged 59] brought up the rear.
Cardinal Thomas Bourchier [aged 65], then Archbishop of Canterbury, took no part due to infirmity.
John de la Pole Earl Lincoln 1st [aged 21]; the King's nephew,.
William Hastings 1st Baron Hastings [aged 52].
Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset [aged 28].
William Herbert 2nd Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Huntingdon [aged 32] (some sources say Earl of Huntingindon?).
William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley [aged 57].
Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby [aged 48].
Richard Fiennes Baron Dacre Gilsland [aged 68].
John Sutton 1st Baron Dudley [aged 82].
George Neville 4th and 2nd Baron Abergavenny [aged 43].
John Tuchet 6th Baron Audley, 3rd Baron Tuchet [aged 57].
Walter Devereux Baron Ferrers of Chartley [aged 51].
Edward Grey 1st Viscount Lisle 1432-1492 [aged 51].
Henry Lovell 9th Baron Marshal 8th Baron Morley 1476-1489 [aged 7].
Richard Woodville 3rd Earl Rivers [aged 30].
John Brooke 7th Baron Cobham [aged 35].
Richard Hastings Baron Willoughby [aged 50].
John Bourchier 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby [aged 45].
On 4th December 1483 George Browne [aged 43] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map].
Chronicle of Robert Fabyan [-1512]. [4th December 1483]. And soon after in Kent were taken sir George Browne [aged 43], knyght, & Robert Clifforde, esquyer, & brought unto the Tower of London. And upon the daye .... of Octobre the sayd sir George & Robert were drawen from Westmynster unto the Tower Hill, and there behedyd.
Historie of Great Britain by John Speed Book 9 Chapter 36. [4th December 1483]. An other Commotion at the same time was in Kent, where George Browne [aged 43] and John Gilford Knights, Foge, Scot, Clifford, and Boating, with five thousand men attempted great matters at Crouch end, but hearing of the Duke of Buckinghams surprise, dispersed themselves for that time. But when King Richard perceived how hee was every where beset, he sent one Thomas Hutton unto Francis Duke of Britaine, with proffers of gold to circumvent and imprison Earle Henry, who as hee feared was too well friended in those forraine parts, which thing indeed this Hutton well perceived, and so to the King reported, that the Duke was nothing forward to bite at this baite, whereupon, those that lately fled England, were indited of treason, and other of Henries factions beheaded, whereof Sir George Browne, and Sir Roger Clifford Knights with foure others were beheaded at London, ...
[his son] George Browne was born to George Browne and Elizabeth Paston 1429-1488.
Kings Wessex: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 10 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 16 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 11 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 11 Grand Son of King Malcolm III of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 7 Grand Son of King Louis VIII of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 17 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine 820-866
Kings Spain: Great x 9 Grand Son of Alfonso II King Aragon
Father: Thomas Browne 
George Browne 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Fitzalan 2nd or 9th Earl of Arundel 
4 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 3rd or 10th Earl of Arundel 8th Earl of Surrey 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Warenne Countess Arundel 
8 x Great Grand Daughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Fitzalan 1st Baron Arundel Baron Maltravers 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Plantagenet Countess Arundel and Surrey 
Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Chaworth 
9 x Great Grand Daughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Fitzalan Baron Maltravers 2nd Baron Arundel 1364-1390 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Maltravers 1st Baron Maltravers
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Maltravers -1350 4 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Milicent Berkeley 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Maltravers 2nd Baroness Maltravers Baroness Arundel and Cobham 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Gwenllian Unknown
GrandFather: Thomas Fitzalan -1430 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh "Younger" Despencer 1st Baron Despencer 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Despencer 1310-1342 Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Clare Baroness Zouche Mortimer 
Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Despencer 1st Baron Despencer, Baron Burghesh 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Ferrers 1299- 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ellen or Margaret Segrave Baroness Ferrers Groby 1282-1318 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Despencer Baroness Zouche, Harringworth, Maltravers and Arundel -1408 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Verdun Baroness Burghesh 1300-1360 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Burghesh 3rd Baron Burghesh 1342-1402 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard de Weyland 3 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Cecily Weyland 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Mother: Eleanor Fitzalan -1469 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
GrandMother: Joan Moyns