BROWNE FAMILY
I. MONTAGUE LINE
Married: ¿?
Children:
2. Stephen BROWNE (Sir)
3. Joan BROWNE
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married 1: John HENEAGE ABT 1430
Married 2: Ralph HAWLEY
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Thomas BROWNE (Sir Sheriff)
Born: 1402
Died: 1460, Beechworth Castle, Surrey
Notes: Treasurer of the Household to Henry VI.
Father: Robert BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married: Eleanor FITZALAN 1437
Children:
4. Thomas BROWNE
5. Jane BROWNE
Born: ABT 1433, Chilham, Kent, England
Father: Thomas BROWNE (Sir Sheriff)
Married: Mary MALLET (dau. of Sir William Mallet, Knight) ABT 1463, Chilham, Kent, England
Children:
Born: 1464, Chilham, Kent, England
Notes: as Eleanor Kempe, served in Catherine Parr's household from 1543-1547 and was one of the longest serving and most loyal of Mary Tudor’s ladies. She was part of Mary’s household by 1547 and was still there in 1558 when the Queen died. Eleanor’s will is dated 21 Aug 1560.
Father: Robert BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: Mary MALLET
Married 1: Thomas FOGGE (Porter of Calais) (d. 16 Aug 1512)1. Anne FOGGE
2. Alice FOGGE
Married 2: William KEMPE of Ollantigh and Spains Hall (b. 1487 - d. 28 Jan 1535) ABT 1512, Kent, England
Children:
3. Emeline KEMPE (d. BEF 1538) (m. Reginald Scott)
4. Thomas KEMPE (d. 7 Mar 1591) (m.1 Anne Moyle - m.2 Joan Fermor - m.3 Cecily (Catherine) Cheney)
5. John KEMPE
6. Edward KEMPE
7. Anthony KEMPE of Slindon (Esq.) (b. BEF 1529 - d. 1597) (m.1 Anne Conyers - m.2 Margery Gage)
8. Francis KEMPE (b. BEF 1534 - d. 1597) (m. Eleanor Carew)
9. George KEMPE (d. AFT 1570)
10. Cecily KEMPE
11. Faith KEMPE
12. Mary KEMPE
13. Margaret KEMPE
Father: Thomas BROWNE (Sir Sheriff)
Married: Oliph LEIGH
Born: 1435
Father: Thomas BROWNE (Sir Sheriff)
Married: Humphrey SACKVILLE
Children:
2. Catherine SACKVILLE
3. William SACKVILLE (b. ABT 1474 - d. 1508)
4. Elizabeth SACKVILLE
5. John SACKVILLE
Born: 1443
Died: 19 Nov 1506
Buried: Calais
Notes: Standard Bearer of England 1485, Esquire for the Body, Governor of Queenborough Castle in Kent, and Knighted 1486. Constable of yea Castle of Calais, 1503. Will dated 25 Sep 1505.
Father: Thomas BROWNE (Sir Sheriff)
Married 1: Eleanor OUGHTRED Jan 1488, St Wilfred's, York, Yorkshire, England
Children:
1. Anne BROWNE
Married 2: Lucy NEVILLE
Children:
2. Anthony BROWNE (Sir Knight)
3. Elizabeth BROWNE (C. Worcester)
4. Lucy BROWNE
6. Henry BROWNE
Died: 1511
Notes: Some sources says she was daughter of Lucy Neville, others that she was a bastard. Was at court as a maid of honor to Elizabeth of York (where she was paid £5 per annum) shortly before the queen’s death. She had the misfortune to fall in love with Charles Brandon. They both lived in the household of the Earl of Essex c.1506. They were betrothed, and lived together as man and wife, but after Anne became pregnant with their first child, Anne, Brandon abandoned her to marry her aunt, Margaret Neville, a wealthy widow. When that marriage was declared null and void, on the grounds of Brandon’s precontract with Anne, he returned to her and married her in 1508/9. Anne died the following year, probably shortly after giving birth to a second daughter, Mary. Sir Anthony Browne's Will states she was his next heir after Anthony, so she was not illegitimate. In Lucy Neville's will, there is no ref to a late dau., nor to Brandon grand-daughters.
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: Eleanor OUGHTRED
Married: Charles BRANDON (1° D. Suffolk) AFT 25 Sep 1505/ ANNULATION/ REMARRIED ABT 1508
Children:
1. Anne BRANDON (B. Grey of Powis)
2. Mary BRANDON (B. Mounteagle)
Died: 1542
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: Lucy NEVILLE
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: Lucy NEVILLE
Married: Anne HAZELHURSTElizabeth BROWNE (C. Worcester)
Born: ABT 1502, Bechworth, Surrey, England
Died: 20 Apr 1565 / 23 Apr 1565 / BEF 23 Oct 1565
Notes: See her Biography.
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: Lucy NEVILLE
Married: Henry SOMERSET (2° E. Worcester) BEF 1527
Children:
1. Anne SOMERSET (C. Northumberland)
2. William SOMERSET (3º E. Worcester)
5. Thomas SOMERSET (d. 1586)
6. Charles SOMERSET
7. Francis SOMERSET (d. 10 Sep 1547, in battle)
¿10. Henry SOMERSET?
Died: 26 Nov 1557
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: Lucy NEVILLE
Married 1: Thomas CLIFFORD (Sir Knight) ABT 1522, Skipton, Yorkshire, England
Children:
Married 2: John CUTTE AFT Mar 1543Born: 29 Jun 1500
Died: 6 May 1548, Byfleet, Sussex, England
Buried: Battle in Susan
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: Lucy NEVILLE
Married 1: Alice GAGE ABT 1525, Sussex, England
Children:
1. Anthony BROWNE (1º V. Montague)
4. Mary BROWNE
5. Henry BROWNE
7. Lucy BROWNE
Married 2: Elizabeth FITZGERALD (C. Lincoln) ("Fair Geraldine") AFT 1540
Born: ABT 1538, Easebourne, Sussex, England
Died: BEF 10 Jul 1606, Kent, England
Buried: 10 Jul 1606, St. Dunstan Church, Canterbury, Kent, England
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice GAGE
Married: Thomas ROPER of Eltham (b. 1536 - d. 1598) (son of William Roper and Margaret More)
Children:
1. Anthony ROPER
2. William ROPER (Sir) (m. Catherine Browne)
3. Henry ROPER
4. Charles ROPER
5. Francis ROPER
6. Thomas ROPER
7. Phillip ROPER
8. Mary ROPER
9. Elizabeth ROPER
10. Martha ROPER
11. Catherine ROPER
12. Mabel ROPER
13. Lucy ROPER
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice GAGE
Married: Anne GORING (dau. of Sir William Goring of Burton)
Born: ABT 1536
Died: 25 Aug 1610, Ireland
Notes: had enjoyed the favour of Queen Mary, and was a gentlewoman of the privy chamber. But she was less welcome at the court Elizabeth I, as Mabel's recusant leanings were well known. She kept a number of priests in her household, including her private chaplain Nicholas Eustace, who was related to the Catholic rebel James Eustace, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass, and she hired the suspected Father Compton to serve as the tutor of her children. She was innocent of the charge that she intended to have one of her sons taken to Spain to be brought up with Jane Dormer, duchess of Feria, but she was a close friend of the duchess from the time they had both been at the court of Mary Tudor. According to Vincent P. Carey, author of Surviving the Tudors: The 'Wizard' Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537-1586, Mabel "maintained a refuge and library for the Jesuit missionary Robert Rochfort".
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice GAGE
Married: Gerald FITZGERALD (11° E. Kildare) 28 May 1554
Children:
1. Elizabeth (Eveleen) FITZGERALD
2. Gerald FITZGERALD (B. Offaley)
3. Henry "Na Tuagh" FITZGERALD (12° E. Kildare)
4. William FITZGERALD (13° E. Kildare)
5. Mary FITZGERALD (B. Delvin)
Born: ABT 1527, Cowdray Park, Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Died: AFT 1592
Notes: known to have been a daughter of Sir Anthony Browne. By which wife, however, I do not know although it appears most likely that it was his first, as there is no mention of Mary being illegitimate. She married Lord John Grey, a younger son of Thomas Grey, 2° Marquis of Dorset. He was imprisoned along with his brother, Henry, Duke of Suffolk, after Wyatt’s Rebellion in 1554, but Mary’s family, who supported Queen Mary, contrived his release. Under Queen Elizabeth, Grey was granted Pyrgo and the queen visited him there in 1561. After her first husband’s death, Mary married Henry Capell of Hadham Hall. Her daughter Margaret married his son Arthur. The Queen visited Hadham Hall on progress in 1578. On Capell’s death, Mary inherited, among other things, her coach and the two horses that went with it. She moved to the other Capell seat, Rayne, while Arthur, took possession of Hadham Hall.
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice GAGE
Married 1: John GREY of Pirgo
Children:
3. Frances GREY
5. Edward GREY
6. Thomas GREY
7. John GREY
8. Jane GREY
9. Anne GREY
Married 2: Henry CAPELL (Sir Sheriff of Essex)
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice GAGE
Married: ¿?
Children:
Father: Thomas BROWNE
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. John BROWNE
2. Son BROWNE
Died: 10 Apr 1662, Rehoboth, Mass.
Father: Thomas BROWNEMother: ¿?
Married: Dorothy BEAUCHAMP?
Children:
1. Mary BROWNE
2. John BROWNE
3. James BROWNE
Born: AFT 1526
Notes: from this match the Brownes of Elsing, Com. Southampton derived their descend.
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice GAGE
Married: Anne HASTINGS
Children:
Died: 8 Sep 1628
Father: William BROWNE of ElsingMother: Anne HASTINGS
Married: Anne BELL (dau. of Roger Bell and Elizabeth Stoteville)
Children:
1. Anne BROWNE
3. Anthony BROWNE
4. Frances BROWNE
Born: ABT 1576, Elsing, Norfolk, England
Father: Anthony BROWNEMother: Anne BELL
Married: Thomas PLAYTERS 23 Feb 1594
Children:
1. Thomas PLAYTERS
Born: 30 Dec 1582, Elsing, Norfolk, England
Died: 10 Oct 1632, Elsing, Norfolk, England
Father: Anthony BROWNE
Mother: Anne BELL
Married: Margaret DARCY
Children:
2. Thomas BROWNE
3. Anne BROWNE
4. Anthony BROWNE
5. Camilla BROWNE
6. William BROWNE
Born: ABT 1602, Elsing, Norfolk, England
Died: AFT 1668
Father: Thomas BROWNE of Elsing
Mother: Margaret DARCY
Married: Martin HASTINGS
Children:
1. Martin HASTINGS (b. ABT 1629)
2. Elizabeth HASTINGS (b. 1631) (m. Thomas Lancaster)
3. Francis HASTINGS (b. ABT 1633 - d. 31 Jul 1695)
4. William HASTINGS (b. ABT 1635 - d. AFT 1668)
5. Dionisya HASTINGS (b. ABT 1637 - d. ABT 1661)
6. Charles HASTINGS (b. ABT 1637 - d. BEF 20 Jun 1734)
7. Anne HASTINGS (b. ABT 1640 - d. 27 Aug 1710)
8. Judith HASTINGS (b. ABT 1642)
Anthony BROWNE (1º V. Montague)
Born: 29 Nov 1528/9, Battle Abbey and Cowdray Park, Sussex of Elsing, Norfolk, England
Acceded: 2 Sep 1554
Died: 19 Oct 1592, West Horsley, Surrey, England
Buried: 6 Dec 1592, Midhurst, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice GAGE
Married 1: Jane RADCLIFFE
Children:
2. Mary BROWNE (C. Southampton)
Married 2: Magdalen DACRE (V. Montague) 15 Jul 1558, St. James’s Palace
Children:
3. Phillip BROWNE (b. 1559)
7. Jane BROWNE
8. Mary BROWNE
10. Mabel BROWNE
11. Thomas BROWNE
12. William BROWNE
Born: 22 Jul 1552, Cowdray, Sussex, England Died: 4 Nov 1607, Copt Hall, Epping, Essex, England Buried: Titchfield, Hampshire, England Notes: Twin of Anthony. Brought up at Cowdray by her stepmother, Magdalen Dacre, as a devout Catholic. In 1577, Mary’s husband, Henry, second earl of Southampton, suspected her of adultery with one Donesame and sought to deprive her of her children. After Southampton’s death, her daughter, Mary was returned to her. In 1592, it was revealed that one of the Countess’s gentlemen in waiting, Mr. Harrington, and a priest named Butler, had lived in Southampton House in London, Lady Southampton’s principal residence, in 1584, in the next chamber to her cousin, Robert Gage, one of the conspirators in the Babington Plot. At least in part to obtain protection for herself and her family, the Countess remarried on 1594, choosing as her husband Sir Thomas Heneage, an influential courtier. Their wedding may have been the occasion for the first performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Upon Heneage's death, Mary inherited Copt Hall, Essex. Her stepdaughter, Elizabeth Heneage, Lady Finch, guaranteed that Mary would have an annual income of £600 if Mary would pay off Heneage’s debts to the Crown, a total of some £13,000. This Mary agreed to and sold one of her own manors to raise the money. In Jan 1599, she married a third time, to Sir William Hervey. When James I became king, Mary was granted a free gift of £600 from the Exchequer and her son Henry, third Earl of Southampton, who had been imprisoned for his part in the Essex Rebellion, was released from the Tower of London. A. L. Rowse suggests that her estate included Shakespeare’s sonnets, written to Mary’s son, and that William Hervey was the “Mr. W.H.” who provided them to the printer in 1609. Mary was buried at Titchfield with her first husband. |
Mary Browne, C. of Southampton by Hans Eworth (1566) at Welbeck Abbey |
Father: Anthony BROWNE (1º V. Montague)
Mother: Jane RADCLIFFE
Married 1: Henry WRIOTHESLEY (2º E. Southampton) 19 Feb 1565/6, London, Middlesex, England
Children:
1. Henry WRIOTHESLEY (3º E. Southampton)
2. Maria WRIOTHESLEY (B. Wardour)
Married 2: Thomas HENEAGE (Sir Knight) 17 Oct 1595/4
Married 3: William HERVEY (B. Ross) (d. 1642) BEF 31 Jan 1598/9
Born: 22 Jul 1552, Cowdray, Cowdray, Sussex, England
Died: 29 Jun 1592, Riverbank House, Cowdray Park or in ?Tythorpe, Bucks, England
Buried: 1 Aug 1592, Midhurst Church, Cowdray, Sussex, England
Notes: Twin of Mary. Sheriff of Surrey and Kent, 1580
Father: Anthony BROWNE (1º V. Montague)
Mother: Jane RADCLIFFE
Married: Mary DORMER
Children:
1. Anthony Maria BROWNE (2º V. Montague)
3. Jane BROWNE
5. George BROWNE
6. John BROWNE
Born: ABT 1575, Keinton St. Michael, Wiltshire, England
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: Mary DORMER
Married: Edward LEE ABT 1590, Rightlesthorne, Buckinghamshire, England
Children:
1. Dorothy LEE
Born: ABT 1580, Keinton St. Michael, Wiltshire, England
Died: 17 Sep 1650
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: Mary DORMER
Married: Francis ENGLEFIELD (Sir Bt.) 12 May 1593, St. Mary Somerset, London, Middlesex, England
Children:
1. Thomas ENGLEFIELD (b. ABT 1594)
3. Dorothy ENGLEFIELD (b. ABT 1598)
4. John ENGLEFIELD (b. ABT 1602)
10. Henry ENGLEFIELD
Born: ABT 1585, Keinton St. Michael, Wiltshire, England
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: Mary DORMER
Married: John TREGONWELL (b. ABT 1565 - d. ABT 1645) ABT 1601, Milton Abbas, Dorset, England
1. Thomas TREGONWELL (b. 1603 - d. 1655) (m. Dorothy Hastings)
Born: ABT 1590, Cowdray, Sussex, England
Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
Mother: Mary DORMER
Married: Anne GIFFORD (dau. of Gifford, Esq)
Children:
1. George BROWNE
2. Mary BROWNE
3. Catherine BROWNE
4. Elizabeth BROWNE
5. Estanislaus BROWNE of Eastbourne
Anthony Maria BROWNE (2º V. Montague)
Born: 1574 Died: 23 Oct 1629 Buried: 27 Oct 1629, Midhurst, England Father: Anthony BROWNE (Sir) Mother: Mary DORMER |
Anthony Maria, John and George Browne by Isaac Oliver, 1598. (Fitzwilliam Museum) |
Married: Jane SACKVILLE (V. Montagu) Feb 1591, Wiltshire, England
Children:
1. Anthony BROWNE
2. Francis BROWNE (3º V. Montague)
3. Mary BROWNE (B. Petre of Writtle)
4. Catherine BROWNE6. Barbara BROWNE
7. Anne BROWNE (Nun)
8. Lucy BROWNE (Nun)
9. Jane BROWNE
Mary BROWNE (B. Petre of Writtle)
Born: ABT 1602 Died: 1685 Father: Anthony Maria BROWNE (2º V. Montague) Mother: Jane SACKVILLE (V. Montagu) Married 1: William PAULET (E. Wiltshire) Married 2: Robert PETRE (3º B. Petre of Writtle) 1620 Children: 1. William PETRE (4º B. Petre of Writtle) 2. John PETRE (5º B. Petre of Writtle) 3. Thomas PETRE (6º B. Petre of Writtle) 4. Mary PETRE |
Married 3: William ARUNDELL (son of Thomas Arundell, B. Wardour)
Born: ABT 1598, Cowdray, Sussex, England
Father: Anthony Maria BROWNE (2º V. Montague)
Mother: Jane SACKVILLE (V. Montagu)
Married: William TYRWHITT of Kettelby ABT 1624
Children:
1. Robert TYRWHITT of Kettelby
2. Mary TYRWHITT (b. 1629)
¿Married 2: John BUDDE?
Born: ABT 1606, Cowdray, Sussex, England
Father: Anthony Maria BROWNE (2º V. Montague)
Mother: Jane SACKVILLE (V. Montagu)
Married: John BLOMER
Children:
1. Mary BLOMER
2. William BLOMER
3. John BLOMER
Francis BROWNE (3º V. Montague)
Born: 2 Jul 1610
Died: 24 Oct 1682
Buried: 2 Nov 1682, Midhurst
Father: Anthony Maria BROWNE (2º V. Montague)
Mother: Jane SACKVILLE (V. Montagu)
Married: Elizabeth SOMERSET (V. Montagu) 6 Jul 1637, London
Children:
1. Anthony BROWNE
2. Francis BROWNE (4º V. Montague)
3. Henry BROWNE
4. Elizabeth BROWNE
Notes: Ancestor of the Brownes of Wickham in Kent Barts. George Browne, son of the staunchly Catholic first Lord Montague, married Eleanor, daughter of Anthony Bridges of Great Shefford (8 miles NW of Newbury) in 1583. On her marriage her father conveyed to her Great Shefford Manor Farm. It was there that Anthony Bridges sheltered Fr George Snape from about 1584 until 1591. Fr Snape was captured at the farm and abandoned Catholicism, thereby obtaining a pardon. The farm still stands. The Brownes owned Maidencourt Farm, which is less than a mile up the Lambourn Valley from Great Shefford.
Father: Anthony BROWNE (1º V. Montague)
Mother: Magdalen DACRE (V. Montague)
Married 1: Eleanor BRYDGES 1583
Children:
1. Jane BROWNE
2. Elizabeth BROWNE
3. Frances BROWNE
Married 2: Mary TYRWHITT
Children:
5. Mary BROWNE
Father: George BROWNE
Mother: Mary TYRWHITT
Married 1: Thomas PASTON
Children:
1. Clement PASTON
Married 2: Henry COMPTON
Children:
2. John COMPTON
3. George COMPTON
4. Peter COMPTON
5. Francis COMPTON
6. Son COMPTON
7. Son COMPTON
Buried: 9 Feb 1663/4, St. Martin's in the Fields
Notes: of Wicham Brews, Kent
Father: George BROWNE
Mother: Mary TYRWHITT
Married: Elizabeth BLOUNT
Children:
1. George BROWNE
2. John BROWNE (1º Bt.) (m. Elizabeth Bredley)
Born: ABT 1562
Died: 6 Feb 1628, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England
Notes: Ancestor of the Brownes of Kidlington.
Father: Anthony BROWNE (1º V. Montague)
Mother: Magdalen DACRE (V. Montague)
Married 1: Mary HUNGATE (dau. of William Hungate)
Married 2: Anne CATESBY
Children:
1. Peter BROWNE (d. 14 Jun 1645) (m. Margaret Knollys)
Notes: fourth son, seated at Effingham, Ob. S.P.
Father: Anthony BROWNE (1º V. Montague)
Mother: Magdalen DACRE (V. Montague)
Married: Anne BELL of Norfolk
Father: Anthony BROWNE (1º V. Montague)
Mother: Magdalen DACRE (V. Montague)
Married: Francis LACON of Willey (Sir Knight) (son of Rowland Lacon and Eleanor Rigges) (m.2 Sarah Campion – m.3 Margaret Whetall – m.4 Anne ? - m.5 Frances ? – m.6 Elizabeth ?)
Died: AFT 29 Sep 1623
Father: Anthony BROWNE (1º V. Montague)
Mother: Magdalen DACRE (V. Montague)
Married: Robert DORMER (1° B. Dormer of Wing) ABT 1580Children:
1. William DORMER (Sir)2. Anthony DORMER of Grove Park