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John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye

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Braye was summoned to Parliament from 3 November 1545 until 21 October 1555, and was a significant military figure of the Tudor period. He was one of the commanding officers in the
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As he had no children and no brothers, his title fell into abeyance upon his death. The abeyance would be terminated nearly three centuries later, in 1839, in favor of
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Braye returned to England after the Battle of St. Quentin, but died of his wounds later that year on 19 November 1557. His widow would later remarry to
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When his father died in 1539, Braye succeeded him as the second Baron Braye. Still a minor, he was placed under the wardship of
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in 1529, by his wife Jane Halliwell. He was the family's only son, but he had six sisters:
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Noble family
Braye
Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye
Tudor period

Edmund Braye
Baron Braye
Anne
George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham
Dorothy
Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos
Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury
Earl of Hertford
Henry VIII
Edward VI
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton
insurrection
Norfolk
Queen Mary
Dudley conspiracy
Battle of St. Quentin
Philip II of Spain
Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton
Chelsea Old Church
Sarah Otway-Cave
Sir Anthony Browne
Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners
The Marquess of Northampton
Peerage of England

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