Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye
Deceased Person
1484 – 1539
Who was Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye?
Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye, was an English peer.
Edmund Braye was the son of John Braye of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire and the older brother of Sir Edward Braye.
He served as High Sheriff of Bedfordshire for 1514 and of Sussex and Surrey in 1522. He was knighted in 1513 and in 1529 he was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Braye, of Eaton Bray in the County of Bedford.
Lord Braye married Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Halliwell or Hallighwell or Halywell of Holwell by Jane Norbury. He died in October 1539 and was succeeded in the barony by his son John. Lady Braye died in 1558. His eldest daughter Anne married George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham before 1526.
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- Born
- 1484
- Children
- Died
- Oct 18, 1539
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on July 23, 2013
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