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 DORSET 4.21 was, on II Oct. i55i,«-. DUKE OF SUFFOLK.^) Htm., istly, before 1530, Katherine, da. of William (Fitzalan), Earl of Arundel, by his 2nd wife, Anne, da. of Henry (Percy), Earl of Northumberland. Her he repudiated. She was living in 1552, the date of her mother's will. He Charles (Brandon), Duke of Suffolk, eldest da. and h. of line to her mother Mary (Tudor), Queen Dowager of France, da. of Henry VU. He proclaimed his eldest da., well known as " Lady Jane Grey," as Queen, after the death, 6 July 1553, of Edward VI. He was pardoned for his rebellion, but, having subsequently joined in Wyatt's plot, was (eleven days after the execution of his da.) beheaded on Tower Hill 23 Feb. 1554, aged 37, when, having been attainted, all his honours hecume forfeited, the JDukedom of Suffolk and the Marquessate of Dorset becoming, as he d. s.p.m., extinct, but the various Baronies (") falling, subject to such forfeiture, into abeyance. Will pr. 1556. His widow, the Dowager Duchess of Suffolk, who was b. at Bishops Hatfield 16 July 15 17, m., before 1557, as his ist wife (he 21, and she 37), Adrian Stokes,('^) who d. 3 Nov. (») For the other creations made on this day see note sub Pembroke. By the death, 16 July 1551, of Charles (Brandon), 3rd Duke of Suffolk, br. of his wife, this title had a few weeks before become extinct. i^) Stall Papers Dom., Hen. Fill. V.G. (') Besides the Baronies of Ferrers of Groby, Harington, and Bonville, above mentioned, he is sometimes credited with a Barony of Astley, of which unquestion- ably the Lords Ferrers of Groby were representatives. This Barony, if it can be considered an hereditary peerage, is of earlier date than any of the others. See iub Astley, Barony, 1295. His eldest da., Jane, having ^. j./i. before him, and his 3rd and yst. da., Mary, who m., 10 or 12 Aug. 1565, Thomas Keyes, Serjeant Porter, having d. s.p. 20 Apr. 1578, aged 33, the sole heirship of all these Baronies would seem to vest in the heirs of Katherine Grey, the Duke's 2nd da., who ;/;. Edward (Seymour), Earl of Hertford, and whose representative, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, d. s.p.m., 26 Mar. 1889, leaving 3 daughters and coheirs, of whom the eldest, suo jure Baroness Kinloss [S.], is (19 1 6) the heir of line of Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII. J. H. Round points out that the validity of Katherine Grey's marriage was rejected by Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, but was eventually recognized. G.E.C. and V.G. C^) According to a book called The Sisters of Lady Jane Grey, by Richard Davey (191 1), Stokes was "a ginger headed lad ... of a fairly good yeoman family and had been appointed some two years earlier secretary and groom of the chambers . . . had his first child been born alive ... it might have claimed the paternity of the Duke of Suffolk." According to the same writer " well within the first weeks of her widowhood, regardless of the tragic fate of her daughter, her husband and her brother- in-law, this heartless woman put aside her mourning robes and gaily attired allowed herself to be led to the hymeneal altar," iifc. Exigencies of space, alas! compel the present Editor to substitute, as a general rule, for gorgeous passages like this the somewhat dry equivalent "she m." Queen Elizabeth's indignation at the match was expressed in the words, " Has the woman so far forgotten herself as to marry a common groom?" The portraits of the two on one canvas by Lucas de Heere are (1916) at Chatsworth, giving his age as 21, and hers as 36. J. H. Round
 * «., 2ndly, early in IVIay iSiiiC) probably at Southwark, Frances, da. of