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146 WILLOUGHBT. X. 1525. 10. Katharikb, mo jure Barokbs Willouohbt dk BusBT, only ^i. and h. ; &. 22 and hap, 26 March 1519 at Parham, proring bar aga in (15S4-85) 26 Hen. YIIF. She at. firatlj aboai Not. 1564, aa bia 4th wife, her guardian Cbarlea (Bramdom), Dukb or Suffolk, for whoae eldeat mhi, Henry, Earl of Liuoulu, abe bad been inUnded. He «/. 14, or 24, Aug. 1545, Icaring iwoaona by her, both of whom became Dnkea of Suffolk, but d. in 1551 before tbeir mother. She, who bad become a Prote^Uut aa early aa 15d9,(*) ai. aeoondly, about 1558 or earlier, Richard Birtib, eometime M.P. for co. Lincoln, and Fellow of Corpua Chnati College, Oxford, an aoooropliahed linguist and a xealooa diam|*ion of the Baformation. He waa cr. M.A. of Cambridge 1564, and d. April 1562 aged 66. Ino. p.m. 14 Aug. 1562. She d, before him 19 Sept 1560, aged 61, and waa 5«r. at Spflabyalid. XI. 1580. 11. Pbrbqrikb (Bbrtib), Lord Wii.ix)UGnDY db Rrbsby, only a. and h., h. 12 Oct. 1555 at Weatd in the duchy of CleTea(^) ; waanatnrallaed 2 Aug. 1559. Hia riyht to the peerage waa admitted, 11 Not. 1560, by th« Star Chamber, and he took bia aeat, 16 Jan. 1560/1, next l)clow Lord Zouche. In 1562 he attended the Duke of Anjou fnim England t4> Antwerp, and carried the Garter to Frederick II. of Denmark. (<:) He diatingiiiahed himaelf at the aiege of Zutphen, 22 Sep. 1566, and waa aubaeqnently in command of the Engliah forcea in the Unitod proYincea, holding Beigen-op-ZiMim then under aiege. In 1590 be was General of 4,000 auxiliariea aent in aid of the King of Navarre. He waa Gut. of Berwick-upon-Tweed. He w. about 1578(<>) Mary, da. of John (oi Vibk), Karl op Oxford, by hia aecond wife, Margaret, da. of John Goij>ino.(*) He d. about 25Junel601,andwaa5ttr.atSpilabyafad.(0 ML Willdat.atBerwick(f)7 Aug. 1599, in which he calla himaelf <* Peregrin Bertye, Knight, Lord Wiihtigklrie of WiUougkbU, Bedu and Brethte^** and in which he makea no mention of hia wife, pr. 12 Sept. 1601. Hia widow in., aa hb firat wife, Sir Bnataoe Hart of IxNidou, who a. IS and waa bnr. 20 Sep. 1 684 at St. Bennet'a, Paul'a Wharf, London. She d. at Hackney, 24 June 1604. XII. 1601. liB. RoBBRT (Bbrtib), Lord Willoughby db' Erbbbt, let a. and h., 6. 17 Deo. 1562, mc to the peerage in June 1601. He haTing, on the death in May 1625 of hia couain Henry (dr Yrbi), Earl of Oxford,(*) been found hia heir aa to the hereditary office of Ghreat Chamberlain (one never hitherto held by any one under the degree of an Barl), waa er. 22 Not. 1626, EARL OF UNDSKT. He d. 26 Oct 1642, aged 60. XIII. 1640. IS, Montagu (Bbrtib), Lord WiiiiOUOHBT de Brbsbt, a. and h. ap., 5. about 1606, aisled Lord Willodobby from 1626, and subaequently became ao, being aum-, T.p. in that Uarony (verted in hia father) 61 Oct 1640. He, on the death of hia fntlier, 26 Oct 1642, mc aa BaH of Lindtey and X. Qrtai OhamJberlain. He d. 25 July 1666, aged 56. . {•) See ToL yii, p. 609, note *' d." mih Suffolk. (b) vpiie intereating inacription aa to hia birth, in the church of St. Willebrode at Weael, and other documenta relating thereto, are given in *' CoUiru" vol. ii, p. 5, eub « Ancaatar," (0) See vol. ii, p. 192, note '* a," for a liat of auch apecial Qarter miaaiona. (d) "The marriage of the l^tdy Mary Vere ia deferred until after Chriatmaa" [Letter of 11 Nov. 1577]. Thia, probably, relatea to the marriage which actually took place. A propoeed marriage to another person, somewhat earlier, ia thua mentioned, " Moat think that a marriage will take effect between Lord Uarrat and Lady Mary Vera" [Letter 16 Feb. 1576/7]. (•) See tabuUr pedigree, vol. vi, p. 174, note " a," euh " Oxford." (0 Naunton speaka of him aa " one of the Queen's first swordsmen, ... a great maater of the art military . . . commanded the second army of five [that] the Queen had aent " to France ; adding alao that aa ** he waa a great soldier, so he waa of a auitable magnanimitie, and could not brook the obeequiousneas and aasiduitie of the Court." (1) A copy thereof u in OoUine," vol. ii, p. 9, and " Ancaster."