Paternal Family Tree: Bertie
On 25th December 1516 Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby was born to Thomas Bertie [aged 36].
On 19th October 1526 William Willoughby 11th Baron Willoughby [aged 44] died at Parham, Suffolk [Map]. He was buried at All Saints Church, Mettingham Bungay [Map]. His daughter [his future wife] Catherine [aged 7] succeeded 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk became a ward of Henry VIII [aged 35].
On 7th September 1533 Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 49] and Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk [aged 14] were married. She by marriage Duchess Suffolk. He held her wardship and had intended to marry her to his ten years old son. In the event of the death of his wife, Mary Tudor Queen Consort France, ten weeks earlier he decided to marry her himself instead. The difference in their ages was 35 years. They were fifth cousin once removed.
After 1551 Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby [aged 34] and Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk [aged 31] were married. He by marriage Baron Willoughby de Eresby.
On 14th July 1551 [his step-son] Henry Brandon 2nd Duke of Suffolk [aged 15] died of sweating sickness at the Bishop of Lincoln's Palace, Buckden [Map]. His brother Charles [aged 14] succeeded 3rd Duke Suffolk, 3rd Viscount Lisle.
Charles Brandon 3rd Duke of Suffolk died of sweating sickness an hour or so after his brother also at the Bishop of Lincoln's Palace, Buckden [Map]. Duke Suffolk, Viscount Lisle extinct.
They were buried at St Mary's Church, Buckden [Map]
Charles Brandon 3rd Duke of Suffolk: In 1537 he was born to Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk and Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk. Henry Machyn's Diary. 22nd September 1551. The xxij day of September was the monyth['s mind of the] ij dukkes of Suffoke [Henry Brandon 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Charles Brandon 3rd Duke of Suffolk] in Chambryge-shyre, with [ij] standards, ij baners grett of armes and large, and banars rolles of dyver armes, with ij elmets, ij [swords, ij] targetts crownyd, ij cotes of armes, ij crests, and [ten dozen] of schochyons crounyd; and yt was grett pete of [their] dethe, and yt had plesyd God, of so nobull a stok they wher, for ther ys no more left of them.
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.)
In 1554 [his daughter] Susan Bertie Countess Kent was born to Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby [aged 37] and [his wife] Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk [aged 34]. She married (1) 1570 Reginald Grey 5th Earl Kent (2) 1582 her sixth cousin John Wingfield.
Before 5th June 1555 [his father] Thomas Bertie [aged 75] died.
On 12th October 1555 [his son] Peregrine Bertie 13th Baron Willoughby was born to Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby [aged 38] and [his wife] Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk [aged 36] at Wesel in Germany. He was named for his parents peregrinations through Germany avoiding religious persecution. He married 25th December 1577 Mary Vere Baroness Willoughby of Eresby, daughter of John de Vere 16th Earl of Oxford and Margery Golding Countess of Oxford, and had issue.
In 1564 Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby [aged 47] was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.
Around 1570 [his son-in-law] Reginald Grey 5th Earl Kent [aged 30] and Susan Bertie Countess Kent [aged 16] were married. She by marriage Countess Kent. She the daughter of Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby [aged 53] and Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk [aged 50].
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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On 25th December 1577 Peregrine Bertie 13th Baron Willoughby [aged 22] and Mary Vere Baroness Willoughby of Eresby were married. She the daughter of John de Vere 16th Earl of Oxford and Margery Golding Countess of Oxford. He the son of Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby [aged 61] and Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk [aged 58].
On 19th September 1580 [his wife] Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk [aged 61] died. Her son Peregrine [aged 24] succeeded 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby. Mary Vere Baroness Willoughby of Eresby by marriage Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.
She was buried at St James' Church, Spilsby [Map] with her second husband Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby [aged 63]. Elizabethan Period. Sideboard Tomb. Cornice supported by three figures of a monk and two wildmen, each holding aloft a shield of arms. In the frieze are flowers, fruit and escutcheons.
Mary Vere Baroness Willoughby of Eresby: she was born to John de Vere 16th Earl of Oxford and Margery Golding Countess of Oxford. On 25th December 1577 Peregrine Bertie 13th Baron Willoughby and she were married. She the daughter of John de Vere 16th Earl of Oxford and Margery Golding Countess of Oxford. He the son of Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby and Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk. Around 24th June 1624 Mary Vere Baroness Willoughby of Eresby died.
Around 1582 [his son-in-law] John Wingfield and Susan Bertie Countess Kent [aged 28] were married. The difference in their ages was 27 years; she, unusually, being older than him. She the daughter of Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby [aged 65] and Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk. They were sixth cousins.
On 9th April 1582 Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby [aged 65] died at Bourne. He was buried at St James' Church, Spilsby [Map].
Grandfather: Robert Bertie 
father: Thomas Bertie