INDEX
Amy Robsart, 148, 149 and footnote, 155;
Anne Boleyn, Lady, 36 and footnote, 60 and footnote
Anne Boleyn, Queen, 24, 36 f.n., 60 f.n., 65 f.n., 68;
her coronation procession, 69, 72, 258, 262 f.n.
Anne Brown (second wife of Charles Brandon), betrothed to Brandon, 13;
betrothal annulled, 14;
her relationship to Lady Mortimer, Brandon’s other wife, 15 and footnote;
married to Brandon, 16;
her children, her death, 16;
her children legitimized, 62;
their marriages, 63
Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, 22 f.n., 47
Anne of Cleves, Queen, 72
Ascham, 94
Bertie, Mr., 19 f.n.;
marries Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, and flies from England, 79, 106;
Mr. Stokes and Hertford consult with him, 136-137
Bess of Hardwick (Mrs. Saintlow), her marriage, 85-86, her origin, etc., 87, 88, 89, 90, 129, 170, 174
Blanche Parry, 144 and footnote, 145, 288 and footnote
Church of Notre Dame at, 30-31, 76, 77 and footnote, 33, 75
Brandon, origin of the family of, 7-8
Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk, his extraordinary resemblance to Henry VIII, 3-5;
his appearance, 4;
his powerful imagination, 5-6;
his parentage, 11;
his education, 12-13;
goes to sea, 13;
is betrothed to Anne Browne, 13;
betrothal annulled, marries Lady Mortimer, 14, 14-15 f.n.;
his marriage with Lady Mortimer annulled, 16;
marries Anne Browne, 16;
tries to marry Elizabeth Grey, Lady Lisle, 16;
assumes title of Lisle, but relinquishes it, 17;
goes to Flanders, 17;
created Duke of Suffolk, 18;
list of lands bestowed on him, 18 and footnote;
makes game of Margaret of Savoy, 20-21;
courts Mary Tudor, 21, 22 f.n., 25, 26, 39;
fights in a tournament, 42-43;
Mary Tudor declares her affection for him, 48;
his interview with Mary Tudor, who wishes to marry him, 49-50, 50 f.n.;
his clandestine marriage with Mary Tudor, 50-51;
letter to Wolsey, 51-52;
received by Henry VIII, remarried to Mary Tudor, 54;
verses by, 56;
attitude of Wolsey towards, quarrels with Wolsey, 56-57;
his London residences, 58;
fights in a tournament, 59;
Lady Mortimer claims connubial rights, 61;
reaffirmation of the dissolution of his marriage with her, 61;
Pope Clement publishes a bull dissolving this marriage, and legitimizing Anne Browne’s children, 62, 63 f.n., 64, 65;
his mistress, and illegitimate offspring, 66 and footnotes;
neglects Mary Tudor, 67;
attends Anne Boleyn’s coronation, 68, 69;
behaves rudely to Katherine of Aragon, 68, 71, 72, 74, 75;
writes to Wolsey, 68;
not present at Mary Tudor’s funeral, 70;
his abominable behaviour to Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, and Katherine Howard, 72;
marries a fourth time, 73;
his children by his fourth wife, Katherine Willoughby, 74 and footnote;
his public career, French campaigns, etc., 75-77;
his last illness and death, 77-78;
his last portrait, 78;
funeral, 78;
his tomb, 78;
his bequests, 78, 244 f.n., 293, 294
Brandon, Lady Eleanor, Countess of Cumberland, her birth, 60, 61, 64;
betrothed to Henry Clifford, 69, 295;
attends his mother’s deathbed and funeral, 70, 71;
attends her father’s death-bed, 78, 293;
her appearance, portraits of, 294;
marries Henry Clifford, 294-295;
in peril during the “Pilgrimage of Grace”, 295-296;
rescued, 296;
death of her sons, 296;
her death and burial, 297, 298
Brandon, Lady Frances, Marchioness of Dorset, Duchess of Suffolk (mother of the Ladies Jane, Katherine and Mary Grey), 15 f.n.;
her birth, 59;
her marriage, 69;
attends her mother’s death-bed and funeral, 70, 71;
attends her father’s death-bed, 78, 84, 86, 93, 96;
her marriage with Adrian Stokes, 103, 255-256;
portrait of her, 104;
reasons for her marriage, 105-106;
her rights of precedence restored, 107-108, 126;
approves of Lady Katherine’s proposed marriage, falls ill, 132;
is still ill, sends for her daughters, 135;
wishes Lady Katherine to marry Hertford, 136, 138;
her death and burial, 140, 257;
her tomb, 141;
her will, 141, 212, 244 f.n., 256, 293, 294, 299, 304
Brandon, Richard, 66 and footnote
Brandon, Sir William (father of Charles Brandon), 11;
his marriage, and death at Bosworth, 11
Brandon, son of Charles Brandon (jeweller to Queen Elizabeth), 66 and footnote, 302
Brandon, Thomas, 12
Brandon, William, 9, 10 and footnote
Browne, Sir Anthony, 131
Bruyn, Sir Henry, 11 and footnote
Cecil, William, Lord Burleigh (Queen Elizabeth’s Chief Secretary), 142, 157;
favours Lady Katherine Grey’s claims, 158-159, 221;
questions Hertford about his courtship of Lady Katherine, 161-162;
questions Lady Katherine, 162-163, 169;
his connection with Lady Katherine’s marriage, 172;
his enmity with Robert Dudley, 172, 187, 213-214;
letters to Cecil, 173 f.n., 190-192, 196-197, 199 f.n., 200, 201, 203 and f.n., 204 and footnote, 211, 216, 218, 226 f.n., 228 f.n., 231, 249, 270-271, 273, 274, 275, 278, 279, 280, 281, 283, 284, 285, 292;
attempts a coup d’état, 187-188; 192, 194, 208;
is implicated in Hales’s book in favour of Lady Katherine’s claims, 213, 215, 240, 245;
supports her sons’ claims, 246, 247 f.n., 252, 263, 264, 266, 276, 282, 285, 286, 302, 304
Charles, Archduke of Castile and Austria, 17, 19, 21, 26, 47, 49
Claude, Queen of France, 36 f.n., 47 and footnote
Clement VII, Pope, 62 and footnote
Clifford, Henry, Earl of Cumberland (husband of Lady Eleanor Brandon), 69, 70, 295, 296, 297, 298
Clinton, Lady (the “Fair Geraldine”), 130, 131, 204, 257, 268, 288, 300
Cockfield Hall, 227, 229, 230, 231 and footnote
Dacre, Lady Magdalen, 115, 123
Darcy, Elizabeth, 11 and footnote
Dee, Dr., 144 and footnote
Dorset, Henry Grey, Marquis of (father of the Ladies Jane, Katherine and Mary Grey), 15 f.n., 43, 69, 70, 76, 83, 86, 91, 93 and footnote, 96, 244 f.n., 294
Dorset Place, 83
Dudley, Edmund, 17
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester, rumours about his relations with Queen Elizabeth, 146, 148, 156;
death of his wife, 156-157;
rumours of his desire to murder her, 156, 157, 158 and footnote, 160;
Lady Katherine’s nocturnal visit to, 171;
reveals her marriage to the Queen, 171, 172;
favours the Earl of Huntingdon’s claim, to the Throne, 184, 185, 187;
opposes Lady Katherine’s claim, 193, 203, 208, 209;
correspondence with Hertford about some gloves for the Queen, 210;
plots for Cecil’s downfall, 213-214, 215, 216, 218, 223;
offers to support Hertford, 224, 240, 245, 249, 251, 282, 286
Edward VI, 76, 77, 94, 95, 96, 98, 104, 188, 244 f.n.
Eleanor Brandon, Lady. See Brandon, Lady Eleanor
Elizabeth, Queen, 103, 104, 109, 110;
her reception of Lady Katherine Grey, and fear of her, 133;
her court, her dress, appearance, etc., 134, 137, 138;
pretends great affection for Lady Katherine, 142;
her loss of popularity, 146, 149;
rumours about her relations with Robert Dudley, 146, 148, 156;
believes she will have offspring, 146-147;
unwilling to marry, 147;
refuses King Philip and other Princes, 147-148;
her passion for Dudley, 148, 149;
her dislike of Lady Katherine, 151, 152, 153, 161;
speaks to the Spanish Ambassador about a marriage with Dudley, 155, 156;
hears of his wife’s death, 157-158;
her connivance at Amy Robsart’s murder, 158;
her rumoured marriage with Dudley, 158 f.n., 159, 160, 161;
goes on a progress, 165;
learns of Lady Katherine’s marriage, her anger thereat, 171;
her orders to Sir Edward Warner touching Lady Katherine, 174, 175, 182;
falls ill with smallpox, 183;
her recovery, and request to the Council, 185;
her orders for Lady Katherine’s removal from the Tower, 194 and footnote;
Lady Katherine’s petition to, 202;
her indignation at Hales’s pamphlet, 212-214, 220;
Parliament tries to coerce her into naming a successor, 221-223;
she refuses to do so, 221 et seq., 250;
her orders to Mr. Roke Green, 226-227;
her orders to Sir Owen Hopton, 227-228;
Lady Katherine’s dying request to, 233, 247;
her treatment of Lady Katherine and Hertford considered, 235-236, 240, 241;
entertained by Hertford, 241;
her kindness to his wife, 242;
wishes to kill Prince James, and place Lady Katherine’s son on the Scotch Throne, 246;
takes charge of her children, 247;
falls ill, 248;
mention of an alleged illegitimate daughter of, 251;
refuses to name Lady Katherine’s son her successor, 252;
seizes the Greys’ property, 256, 257, 258, 262 and footnote, 268 f.n.;
learns of Lady Mary Grey’s wedding, her anger thereat, 263-264;
her orders to William Hawtrey, 265-266, 273, 274, 276 and footnote, 277;
her gifts to Lady Mary and others, 286-287; 300, 301, 303, 304
Feria, Count de (Spanish Ambassador in England), 102, 129;
his influence over Lady Katherine Grey, 130, 133, 147, 148, 152, 153
Feria, Countess de (Jane Dormer), 115, 130, 152, 153, 195 f.n.
Francis I, King of France, 40;
falls in love with Mary Tudor, 44-45, 46;
tries to court her, and is refused, 47-48, 50;
tries to propitiate Henry VIII, 51, 53, 76
Gardiner, Stephen, Bishop of Winchester, xxix, 61, 116, 126
Goldwell, Mrs., 262, 263, 265, 267, 268-272, 290
Gosfield Hall, 216, 219 and footnote, 220, 225, 229
Green, Mr. Roke, 226, 228, 229
Gresham, Sir Thomas, 278, 282, 284, 285, 290, 292
Grey, Henry, Marquis of Dorset. See Dorset
Grey, Lady Jane, xxviii, 15 f.n., 39, 59, 83, 85, 86, 90, 94, 95, 96, 97;
her last letter, to Lady Katherine, 98-101, 98 f.n., 120, 122, 153 f.n., 175, 188, 235, 255, 256 f.n., 298 and footnote
Grey, Lady Katherine, Countess of Hertford, xxviii, 15 f.n., 39, 64, 78;
her birth, 83;
her childhood, infantile costume, toys, early education, 84-85;
entry into society, 85, 86, 89;
her travels in 1551, 1552 and 1553, 90-93;
falls ill, her health, 93;
Katherine is not trained to be Queen, contrast between her girlhood and Lady Jane’s, 94-95;
does not go to Edward VI’s court, 96, 96 f.n.;
is contracted to Lord Herbert, goes to Baynard’s Castle, 97;
letter to Katherine, from Lady Jane, 98-101;
her betrothal annulled, 101-102;
expresses her willingness to marry Lord Herbert, 102;
goes to court, 107;
accompanies Queen Mary on progresses, 108;
receives a royal pension, 109;
is well treated at Mary’s court, 109;
first public appearance, 111;
assists at marriage of Philip and Mary, 115, 117, 118, 120;
her meeting with the Earl of Hertford, 122;
her lovemaking with him, 125, 127;
goes to Hanworth, 127;