Lucy (Neville) Browne (abt. 1468 - 1534)

Born about 1468 in England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Fitzwilliam — married about 1486 in England

Wife of Anthony Browne — married about 1498 in England

Descendants

Died 25 Mar 1534 at about age 66 in Bagshot, Surrey, England

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Biography

Birth and Parents

Lucy Neville, daughter of John Neville, K.G.,^[1] and Isabel Ingaldesthorpe,^[2] was born about 1468 (aged 18 in 1486).^[3][4] Her birthplace is unknown as her father held lands in several counties.

Marriages and Children

Lucy married first to Thomas FitzWilliam, Knt., of Aldwark, Yorkshire,^[3] son of Sir Richard FitzWilliam and Elizabeth Clarell. As a young child, Thomas had been contracted to marry Johanna Mirfield, but the marriage was never completed.^[5] The date and place of Lucy and Thomas' marriage is unknown, but an estimate of 1486 can be made based on her son Thomas' age at death. Lucy and Thomas had the following children:

• Thomas, died at the Battle of Flodden Field in September 1513, aged 27; married Ann/Agnes Pagenham/Pakenham and had issue^[5]
• William, K.G., Earl of Southampton, married Mabel Clifford; William died in 1543 without issue^[5][6]
• John, died in 1513 at Flodden Field with his brother Thomas^[5]
• Richard, died in infancy^[5]
• Anthony, died in infancy^[5]
• Edmund, died in infancy^[5]
• Margaret, married Sir William Gascoigne^[5]
• Elizabeth, married first Sir William Maleverer and second to Sir Nicholas Harvey^[5]

Thomas died 29 May 1498. He left a will dated 27 April 1497^[5] which requested burial at Tickhill, near his father, and appointed his wife Lucy as executrix.^[7] His will was proved 6 June 1498.^[3][5][7]

Lucy married second to Anthony Browne, Knt.,^[5] son of Thomas Browne, Knt., and Eleanor Arundel. Lucy was Anthony's second wife.^[3] They had two sons and two daughters:

• Anthony, K.G.,^[8] married first to Alice Gage and second to Elizabeth FitzGerald,^[1] having issue with both wives;^[9] he was born 29 June 1500 and died 6 May 1548^[3]
• Henry,^[3] married Anne (Haselhurst) Crispe^[1]
• Lucy,^[8] wife of John Cutts and of Thomas Clifford^[1][3][10]
• Elizabeth, wife of Sir Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester^[1][3][8]

Lucy's husband Sir Anthony died leaving a will dated 25 September 1505 and proved 17 November 1506. He was buried at St. Nicholas, Calais beside his first wife.^[3]

Lands

Lucy was a co-heiress to her brother, George Neville, formerly Duke of Bedford,^[5] in 1483,^[3] inheriting a quarter of the manor of Shenley Hall in Hertfordshire. In 1507, two parts of the manor (belonging to Lucy and her sister Margaret) were transferred to John Cutts/Cuttes, husband of Lucy's daughter Lucy.^[11]

In 1494, the Soham estate was divided among Joan Ingoldisthorpe's granddaughters and heirs: Lucy was assigned the manor of Barway, which was later inherited by her son Anthony Browne.^[12]

In 1500-1501, Lucy as executor of her first husband's estate, along with her husband Anthony Brown, sued Humfrey FitzWilliam, clerk, and the feoffees to uses, over the manor of Brampton in Morthyng and other lands and tenements there, and in Brokhous, Carhous, Laghton in Morthyng, Swynton, Hoton, Underhagh, and elsewhere.^[13]

At some point before 1514, Lucy and the other heirs of her father were involved in a lawsuit against the abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury over unspecified lands.^[14]

In 1514, Lucy was a legatee in the will of her sister, Elizabeth, Lady Scrope.^[3][15]

On 8 June 1516, Lucy and her son Anthony granted lands to John Cutts and others as follows: "all manors and lands in co. Kent which said Anthony Browne, kt., devised to said Lucy for life, to the use of said Lucy for life, and then to the use of said Anthony Browne, the son, and his heirs."^[16]

In exchange for Lucy's 1/5th share of a 500 mark annuity granted in 1339 to her ancestor Thomas de Bradeston, Lucy was granted lands in Sussex and Kent by an Act of Parliament of 1530. The lands included the dissolved abbey of Bayham in the Sussex part of Lamberhurst with its manors of Bayham and Lewis Heath along with the dissolved priory of Calceto in Lynminster, with four of its manors in Sussex,^[3] including Selham.^[17][18]

Death

Lucy died 25 March 1534 at Bagshot, Surrey and was buried at Bisham Priory, Berkshire. Her will dated 20 August 1531 was proved 30 June 1534.^[3][19]

In her will, she named the following children: Sir William Fitzwillam and his wife Mabel; Sir Anthony Browne; Elizabeth, Countess of Worcester; and daughter Gascoigne, wife of William.^[19]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Thomas Benolte, et al. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. Vol LIII. London: The Harleian Society, 1905, p. 83. Archive.org.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Vol. III. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013, pp. 396, INGALDESTHORPE 13.iv.
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry, vol. V. pp. 133-134, TEMPLE 13: Anthony Browne.
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Vol. III. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011, pp. 225-226, NELSON 12. Google Books.
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12} Joseph Foster. Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, vol. I. London: W. Wilfred Head, 1874, p. 133. Archive.org: FitzWilliam.
6. ↑ "North Country Wills" in Publications of the Surtees Society, vol. 116. London: Andrews & Co., 1908. pp. 190-192. Google Books: will of William Fitzwilliam.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Testamenta Eboracensia, vol. 3. J.B. Nichols, 1865, p. 247. Archive.org.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} George H. Wright, Esq. "On Sir Anthony Browne, Standard-Bearer to King Henry VII, and his Descendants" in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, series 1, vol. 23. London: British Archaeological Association, 1867, pp. 233-234. Archive.org.
9. ↑ S.T. Bindoff, ed. "Browne, Sir Anthony (c.1500-48), of Battle Abbey and Cowdray Park, Suss." in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558. 1982. History of Parliament Online
10. ↑ The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 18. Yorkshire: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1905, pp. 374-375. Google Books.
11. ↑ William Page, ed. 'Parishes: Shenley' in A History of the County of Hertford. Volume 2. London, 1908, pp. 264-273. British History Online.
12. ↑ A. F. Wareham and A.P.M. Wright, "Soham: Manors" in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely. Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire). London, 2002, pp. 500-507. British History Online.
13. ↑ The National Archives. Discovery. Brown v. Fitzwilliam: C 1/237/90.
14. ↑ The National Archives. Discovery. Fortescu v The abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury: C 1/134/67.
15. ↑ N. Harris Nicholas. The Controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor, vol. II. London: Samuel Bentley, 1832, pp. 154-155. FamilySearch.org: Will of Elizabeth Scrope.
16. ↑ The National Archives. Discovery. Grant from Lady Lucy Browne: COWDRAY/5128/2.
17. ↑ L. F. Salzman, ed. "Selham" in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4, the Rape of Chichester. London, 1953, pp. 80-82. British History Online.
18. ↑ The National Archives. Discovery. The Cowdray Archives, The Cowdray Estate (ii): the estate of Lucy Browne.
19. ↑ ^{19.0 19.1} "North Country Wills" in Publications of the Surtees Society, vol. 116. 1908. pp. 129-131. Google Books: will of Lucy Browne.

• The National Archives. Discovery. 1528 Fine between William Kyngeston, knt., Henry Guldeford, knt. and John GAage, knt., querents, and Lucy Browne, widow.
• J S Brewer, ed. "Recognizances for the Repayment of Loans", in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2: 1515-1518. London, 1864, pp. 1481-1490. British History Online.
• W J Hardy and W Page, eds. "London and Middlesex Fines: Henry VIII", in A Calendar To the Feet of Fines For London and Middlesex. Volume 2: Henry VII - 12 Elizabeth. London, 1893, pp. 16-68. British History Online.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and updated for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 on 30 August 2022.

Lucy (Neville) Browne appears in a trail that was identified and badged by the Magna Carta Project from Gateway Ancestors John Nelson and Margaret Nelson to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy in 2015. Other trails were later identified and badged from the Nelsons to surety barons John de Lacy, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, Hugh le Bigod, Roger le Bigod, and John FitzRobert. All seven of these trails were re-reviewed/updated in July 2022 and can be viewed in the Magna Carta Trails section of John Nelson's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".