Parentage of Sir Anthony Brown (1509-1567)

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Parentage of Sir Anthony Brown (1509-1567)

Legg inn av Gjest » 25 jan 2008 03:16:02

According to the ODNB biography of Sir Anthony Brown, sometime Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas, he was born in 1509, the son of Sir
Wistan Brown by Elizabeth Mordaunt.

Elizabeth Mordaunt is said to have been the daughter of William
Mordaunt of Turvey, Beds; her brother, Sir John Mordaunt (died 1504)
also has a biography in ODNB, since he was Speaker of the House of
Commons.

The Brown family entry in the Vistitations of Essex (which we already
know is faulty) states that Sir Anthony had an elder brother, John
Brown, who married Audrey Vere, one of the daughters and coheirs of
Henry Vere of Addington. John and Audrey are said to be the parents
of George Brown.

Yet ODNB states that George Brown was the brother, not the nephew of
Sir Anthony.

I suspect that ODNB is right in saying this, and that Anthony was not
the brother but the son of John Brown and Audrey Vere, and thus the
grandson of Sir Wistan Brown and Elizabeth Mordaunt. Here's why:

Audrey Vere's two sisters married relations of the Browns; looking at
their families provides some clues as to likely dates for Audrey.

Her elder sister Elizabeth Vere married in 1499 John Mordaunt (born
1480-5 per ODNB), the son of Sir John Mordaunt (d 1504). He was
afterwards created 1st Baron Mordaunt. Their son and heir was born in
1508.

Her younger sister Anne married Sir Humphrey Brown, brother of Sir
Wistan Brown. Sir Humphrey was admitted to the bar in the 1490s and
was thus apparently born in the 1470s. Their son George was married,
admittedly as a minor, by 1518.

It seems that Audrey was born sometime before 1500, which is more
likely to be the approximate date for her marriage to John Brown.
This dating would fit with Sir Anthony being their son, and thus the
brother of George (as ODNB states).

If this is the case, then two first-cousins, grandsons of William
Mordaunt of Turvey, married two of Henry Vere's daughters, and the
third married the uncle of one of these cousins.

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