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Dorothy Bray, Baroness Chandos

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Dorothy first came to court in 1540, where she served as a Maid of Honour to Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII. When that marriage was annulled, Dorothy went on to serve in the same capacity, Anne's successor, Catherine Howard, whom the King had married in July 1540.
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Less than two months after Dorothy's death, William Knollys married his second wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard. It was uncertain as to whether Elizabeth's two sons were fathered by William, and as a result they were not permitted to take their seats as Earls of Banbury in the
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had created a scandal when she ran off with her lover, John Lyngfield, and shortly afterwards bore him an illegitimate child.
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Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant
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William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos (c.1552- 18 November 1602), married Mary Hopton, by whom he had one son,
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On 11 March 1573, Edmund died and he was succeeded by their eldest son, Giles. The following year, Queen
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G.E. Cokayne, Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand, Lord Howard de Walden,
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A portrait of a woman painted by John Bettes the Younger in about 1578, is allegedly that of Dorothy.
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Dorothy died in Minty, Gloucestershire, on 31 October 1605 at the age of 81. She was buried in
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Dorothy's affair with Parr lasted until 1543, when he began to court her niece,
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On 12 April 1557, when her husband succeeded to his title, Dorothy was styled
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Katherine Brydges (died before December 1597), married
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Sometime in about 1546, she married her first husband,
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Dorothy Bray
Dorothy Knollys (disambiguation)

John Bettes the Younger
Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos
William Knollys MP
Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos
William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos
Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye
Maid of Honour
Maid of Honour
Henry VIII of England
Anne of Cleves
Catherine Howard
Catherine Parr
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton
Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos
Eaton Bray
Bedfordshire
Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye
John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye
Anne, Baroness Cobham
William Parr
Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier
Elizabeth Brooke
High treason
Edmund Brydges
John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos
William Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys
the Vyne

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