Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk

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Chapter 3 1546 The Marquis of Dorset and his family, Bradgate Park, Lady Jane Grey, her relations with her cousins, Mary Tudor, Protestantism at Whitehall, religious persecution.

Amongst the households where both affairs at court and the religious struggle distracting the country were watched with the deepest interest was that of the Marquis of Dorset, the husband of the king's niece and father of Lady Jane Grey.

Married at 18 to the infirm and aged Louis XII of France, Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII and friend of the luckless Catherine of Aragon, had been released by his death after less than three months of wedded life and had lost no time in choosing a more congenial bridegroom.

At Calais, on her way home, she had bestowed her hand upon that martial and pompous gentleman, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, who, sent by her brother to conduct her back to England, thought it well to secure his bride and to wait until the union was accomplished before obtaining the king's consent.

Of this hurried marriage, the eldest child was the mother of Jane Grey, who thus derived her disastrous heritage of royal blood.

It was at the country home of the Dorset family, Bradgate Park, that Lady Jane had been born in 1537.

Six miles distant from the town of Leicester and forming the south-east end of Charnwood Forest, it was a pleasant and quiet place.

Okay, question two.

In February 1554, Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, was about to be head- be beheaded, that's hard to say, be beheaded, on Tower Hill, when a man in the crowd interrupted.

What-

What happened next?

I'm pretty sure I have.

Okay

Yeah, 'cause I have, because I've done an on this day on Henry Grey's execution, so I would've mentioned it.

Okay.

Quello che invece sappiamo con certezza è di chi lei sia figlia, e nella storia di Jane questo è estremamente importante.

Suo padre infatti è Henry Grey, un nobile, il marchese di Dorset, che è appassionato di caccia e delle nuove idee religiose che in quel momento stanno dividendo l'Europa tra cattolici da una parte e i protestanti dall'altra.

E loro sono protestanti.

La madre di Jane, invece, Frances Brandon.

My companion unlocked a little cupboard and produced the relic which this City church for so many centuries had sheltered.

It was boxed—that seems the most appropriate word—in glass: the head of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk.

The marks on the neck were pointed out.

There the headsman had failed, but this other blow was true.

Their daughter is Frances Brandon.

She marries Henry Grey, who basically is an idiot, but they have three pretty brilliant daughters, uh, Jane, Catherine, and Mary.

So Jane is the oldest of those daughters.

Okay.

Their daughter is Frances Brandon.

She marries Henry Grey, who basically is an idiot, but they have three pretty brilliant daughters, uh, Jane, Catherine, and Mary.

So Jane is the oldest of those daughters.

So she's got good Tudor blood in her veins.

Many who were not Protestants were anxious to stop the Spanish marriage and the renewal of the foreign war.

Hence came the breaking out of a dangerous rebellion aimed at Mary's disposition and the substitution of her for her sister Elizabeth who was, however, kept in ignorance of the plot was she this is me speaking now not oman was she was she ignorant of it historians haven't always agreed on that but we'll get into it so a plot breaks out a new rebellion against mary oman says the conspirators intended her to marry edward courtney earl of devon son of the courtney marquess of exeter whom henry viii had beheaded in 1539 and last heir of the house of york Courtenay himself, a vain and incapable young man, was not the real head of the conspiracy, which was mainly guided by the Duke of Suffolk, the father of Lady Jane Grey, and by Sir Thomas Wyatt, a young knight of Kent .

Courtenay's babbling folly betrayed the plot too soon and the conspirators had to rise before they were ready.

Their armed bands were easily crushed in all parts of England save in Kent.