Elizabeth Willoughby, 3rd Baroness Willoughby of Broke

• SEVERAL OTHER REFERENCES LIST ELIZABETH WILLOUGHBY AS THE DAU. OF EDWARD WILLOUGHBY & MARGARET NEVILLE

Elizabeth Willoughby, 3rd Baroness Willoughby de Broke

Elizabeth Willoughby, 3rd Baroness Willoughby de Broke, de jure 11th Baroness Latimer (c.1512 – c. 15 November 1562) was an English noblewoman and wife of Sir Fulke Greville.

Elizabeth Willoughby was the eldest daughter of Edward Willoughby of Alcester, Warwickshire, and Powick, and Dorothy Anne Grey, daughter of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquis of Dorset (eldest son of Elizabeth Wydeville, Queen of England) and Cecily Bonville. Elizabeth's father, Edward Willoughby, died in November 1517, leaving Elizabeth still a minor. Her wardship was acquired in 1522 by Sir Edward Greville of Milcote, Warwickshire.[1] At her grandfather's death on 11 November 1521, the baronies of Willoughby de Broke and Latimer fell into abeyance despite his three granddaughters; all daughters of his son Edward; Elizabeth, Anne and Blanche.[2] The barony was settled on Elizabeth after their deaths s.p..[2]

Shortly before 11 April 1526 Sir Edward Greville married his ward Elizabeth to his second son, Sir Fulke Greville (bef. 1505–10 November 1559) of Beauchamps Court, Alcester.[3] He did so because Elizabeth preferred Fulk over his older brother.[4] A manuscript dated 1644 entitled The Genealogie, Life and Death of Robert, Lord Brooke, then in the possession of the Earl of Warwick, describes their courtship:

• “ In the days of Henry VIII, I read of Sir Edward Greville, of Milcote, who had the wardenship of Elizabeth, one of the daus. of the Lord Brooke's son. The knight made a motion to his ward to be married to John, his eldest son, but she refused, saying that she did like better of Fulke, his 2nd son. He told her that he had no estate of land to maintain her; and that he was in the King's service of warre beyond the seas, and therefore his return was very doubtful. Shee replied and said, that shee had an estate sufficient both for him and herself, and that she would pray for his safety and wait for his coming. Upon his return home, for the worthy services he had performed, he was by King Henry honoured with a knighthood; and then married Elizabeth, the dau. of the Lord Brooke's son.[5] ”

In 1542/3 Elizabeth's husband, Fulke Greville, was knighted by Henry VIII for military service to the crown. He was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1543 and a member of Parliament from 1547.[6] He further distinguished himself along with forty men in the suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace and served in campaigns in 1544 against France.[3] He built his wife and family a new house at Beauchamp's Court with stone reclaimed from Alcester Priory.[3] Fulk died on 10 Nov 1559.[3] Elizabeth died 9 November 1562 and was buried beside her husband with a monumental inscription.[3]

At her death the title passed to her eldest son, Fulke Greville, 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke.[5]

Elizabeth Willoughby and Sir Fulke Greville had seven sons and eight daughters[3] among whom were:

• Fulke Greville, 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke.[5]
• Robert Greville
• Sir Edward Greville, who married Jane Grey.[7]
• Mary Greville, who married William Harris.
• Eleanor Greville, who married Sir John Conway.
• Katherine Greville (d.1611), who married Giles Reade (d.1611), esquire, of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, by whom she had thirteen children.
• Blanche Greville.
• Five additional sons
• Four other daughters

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Willoughby,_3rd_Baroness_Wi...

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• Elizabeth Willoughby1,2,3,4,5,6
• F, #80883, b. circa 1512
• Father Edward Willoughby1,7,3,8,5,6 b. c 1494, d. Nov 1517
• Mother Margaret Neville9,1,7,3,8,5,6 b. 9 Mar 1495
• Elizabeth Willoughby was born circa 1512 at of Beauchamp's Court, Alcester, Warwickshire, England; Age 10 in 1522.10,3,4,6 She married Sir Fulk Greville, Sheriff of Warwickshire & Leicestershire, son of Sir Edward Greville, Justice of the Peace for Warwickshire and Anne Denton, circa 11 April 1526 at of Brooke, Wiltshire, England; They had 3 sons (Sir Fulk; Robert; & Sir Edward) and 8 daughters (including Mary, wife of William Harris; Eleanor, wife of Sir John Conway; Katherine, wife of Giles Reade, Esq; & Blanche).1,2,3,4,5,6 Elizabeth Willoughby was buried on 15 November 1562 at Alcester, Warwickshire, England.11,1,3,4,6
• Family Sir Fulk Greville, Sheriff of Warwickshire & Leicestershire b. b 1505, d. 10 Nov 1559
• Children
  • Robert Greville+12 b. c 1537
  • Katherine Greville+13,3,4,6 b. c 1543, d. 1611
  • Sir Edward Greville+14,3,4,6 b. c 1545
• Citations
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 132.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 338.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 269.
• [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 329.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 578.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 121-122.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 337.
• [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 328.
• [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 688.
• [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol.XII/2, p. 688.
• [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 689, notes.
• [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 269-270.
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 132-133.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2692.htm#... _________________
• Elizabeth Willoughby, Baroness Willoughby de Broke1
• F, #16913, d. 1560
• Last Edited=15 Sep 2013
• Consanguinity Index=0.03%
• Elizabeth Willoughby, Baroness Willoughby de Broke was the daughter of Edward Willoughby and Margaret Neville.1 She married Sir Fulke Greville circa 1534. She died in 1560.1
• She succeeded to the title of Baroness Willoughby de Broke, de jure. Her married name became Greville.
• Children of Elizabeth Willoughby, Baroness Willoughby de Broke and Sir Fulke Greville
  • Sir Fulke Greville, 4th Lord Willoughby de Broke+1 d. 1606
  • Robert Greville+2
  • Sir Edward Greville
• Citations
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 331. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 333.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1692.htm#i16913 _______________________
• Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY
• Born: 28 Apr 1510, probably Broke, Wiltshire, England
• Died: 15 Nov 1562
• Father: Edward WILLOUGHBY
• Mother: Margaret NEVILLE
• Married: Fulke GREVILLE of Beauchamp's Court (Sir) BEF Apr 1526
• Children:
  • 1. Fulke GREVILLE (Sir Sheriff of Warwick)
  • 2. William GREVILLE (b. ABT 1531)
  • 3. Mary GREVILLE
  • 4. Robert GREVILLE
  • 5. Helen (Eleanor) GREVILLE
  • 6. Edward GREVILLE (Sir)
  • 7. Catherine GREVILLE
  • 8. Catherine GREVILLE
  • 9. Blanche GREVILLE (b. ABT 1544 / 1547) (never marr.)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WILLOUGHBY3.htm#Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY3 __________________

From Cracroft's Peerage page on Willoughby de Broke:

http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/WilloughbyB1491.htm

Elizabeth Willoughby later Greville, de jure suo jure Baroness Willoughby de Broke and Baroness Latimer

born

mar.

bef. 11 Apr 1526 Sir Fulke Greville MP, of Beauchamp's Court, Alcester, co. Warwick, Foedary of all King Henry VIII's lands in Warwickshire and Worcestershire 1533-34, was ordered to attend on the King's own person with 40 men during the Northern Rebellion 1536, accompanied the King to meet Anne of Cleves at Blackheath 1539/40, Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1542-43 and 1547-48, knighted before 1544, served with the rearguard in the Boulogne campaign 1544, Member of Parliament for Warwickshire 1545-52 and 1554-55 (d. 10 Nov 1569; bur. at Alcester, co. Warwick), 2nd son of Sir Edward Greville, of Milcote, co. Warwick, by his wife Anne Denton, dau. of John Denton, of Amersden, co. Buckingham

children

Child 1. Sir Fulke Greville, later de jure 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke and 11th/12th Baron Latimer

Child 2. Robert Greville, of Thorpe Latimer, co. Lincoln, mar. Blanche Whitney, and had issue:

Grandchild 1a. Fulke Greville, of Thorpe Latimer, co. Lincoln (d. 1632), mar. 15 May 1602 Margaret Bosville (widow of Ralph Bosville, of Gunthwaite, co. York), dau. of Christopher Copley, of Wadsworth, co. York, and had issue:

GGChild 1b. Robert Greville MP, later 2nd Baron Brooke

GGChild 2b. William Greville

GGChild 1b. Dorothy Greville (d. 28 Jan 1650), mar. as his second wife Sir Arthur Hesilrige, 2nd Bt., of Noseley Hall, co. Leicester

Child 3. Sir Edward Greville

died Nov 1562 (bur. at Alcester, co. Warwick)

suc. by son

note:

had livery of half of her sister Anne's estates 1528 and suc. to the rest of the estates in 1554, when on the death of her only surviving sister she became entitled, according to the modern doctrine of abeyance, to the Baronies of Willoughby de Broke and Latimer;

Location of Broke:

This was obtained from a passage in the Project Gutenberg eBook: "The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West" by William Henry Hamilton Rogers.

At somewhat more than halfway distance between Weymouth on the skirt of the Atlantic, and the good old city of Bristow by the Severn sea, on the thin iron line that crosses the wide end of the western peninsula between those places,—and which in the early days of railway enterprise was cleverly, but of course futilely, stretched as a boom, designed to 'block' all further extension westward,—and just inside the county of Wilts, lies the quiet little town of Westbury.

[After some description]... Nothing very suggestive in all this as to our expedition to find the old home of Willoughby in these parts; he of the famed circle of the Garter, and first Baron by a name taken from the little rill of Brooke or Broke, that, outlasting his name and fame, still flows past the house that he occupied while in the flesh. Yet it cannot be very far off.

These are our thoughts as we look from the parapet of the bridge that carries the highway over the railroad below, our steps lead us northward, and although our local geography ends here, our usual luck for further guidance is at hand. An old stone-breaker by the wayside stays his hammer as we pass, to give us the morning's salutation, and to our respond we add the interrogatory as to our path to an old house or place called Brooke or Broke, somewhere near. "Brooke-Hall you mean" said he, with special emphasis on the affix, "I know it well, follow on for nearly a mile until the road leads into the brook; then turn into the gate on your right, go through two meadows and you will see Brooke Hall before you. It is an old antient place, and I have heard was a grand one once, but it is only a farm-house now."

With due thanks to, and musing on the inextinguishable influence of tradition, thus continued and wove into the life of our humble but intelligent informant, we saunter along, until the rippling sound of water attracts us on our left. Mounting the low ledge that bounds our path on its other side, at our feet in the enclosure below (locally termed the Bisse) the Brooke or Broke sparkles along gaily as ever, and apparently as undiminished as when four centuries a-past, the knight, whose memories we are in search of, forded its flow. A little farther beyond, and the lane we have been traversing descends abruptly into its bed, which forms a continuance of the thoroughfare for a short distance. Our path diverges through the gate on the right, and into the green fields.

Here, at once, although much ameliorated to the wants of the modern farmer, the undulating nature of the ground, the richness of the turf, and scattered stately trees still lingering about to attest its olden beauty and importance, we recognize unerringly the well known characteristics of an antient park, but apparently not of large size. Traces of a winding road lead on from the lane gate, and stretch 3 away over a swarded knoll, on the right; with pleasurable steps we reach the summit of the acclivity, and descry at about another field's space ahead, the still existing remains of the Brooke Hall of our trusty informant.

"A grand place once"—we ruminate, recalling the words of the old stone-breaker, as we halt under the shadow of a tall, massive gable, buttressed at the angles like a church, and with the original hip-knop a trefoil on a stalk, still very perfect, and bravely weathering the sunshine and breeze at its apex. From this gable stretches back a building ninety feet long with high-pitched roof, and forms one side of the farm-court. Its further end is joined to a cross-structure of smaller size, now used as the farm dwelling-house.

Cautiously we push open the large doors of the cow-court and look inside. This, from no dread of meeting, and having our intruding footsteps ordered off by the antient knight who once possessed it, but rather from the undesirableness of making too sudden acquaintanceship with the vigilant curly-tailed custodian of its precincts eyeing us from within, and who may not, until properly assured to the contrary, be quite satisfied with the object of our investigation; but a kindly word of advice to him, and of welcome to us, from his master close by, speedily puts everything at ease, and with full permission for inspection.

Before however we proceed to investigate the old place, we mentally join company with the famous old itinerant Leland, who came here on a similar errand, and recall the burthen of his description, when it was in pristine condition, and still in possession of the Willoughbys.

"There was of very aunciente tyme an olde maner place wher Brooke Hall is now, and parte of it yet appearithe, but the buyldynge that is there is of the erectynge of the Lorde Stewarde unto Kynge Henry the vii. The wyndowes be full of rudders. Peradventure it was his badge or token of the Amiraltye. There is a fayre Parke, but no great large thynge. In it be a great nombar of very fair and fyne greyned okes apt to sele howses.

"The broke that renithe by Brooke is properly caulyd Bisse, and risethe at a place namyd Bismouth, a two myles above Brooke village, an hamlet longynge to Westbyry paroche. Thens it cummithe onto Brooke village, and so a myle lower onto Brooke Haule, levinge it hard on the right ripe, and about a two miles lower it goith to Trougbridge, and then into Avon."

We enter the court yard, and the main portion remaining, which was probably erected by the Lord Steward, occupies the whole of the left side. It is a strong substantial building. The front toward the yard has three doorways having good late-pointed arches, and five two-light windows of small dimensions. Between the doorways are buttresses. At first sight, the building seems as if intended for a large hall, especially from the fine high-pitched roof, and its completeness inside, having all the old timbers remaining. But it appears to have been divided off, and formed into apartments, a considerable portion of the old wood partition-work still remains. It is now used as a stable, barn, and for other farm purposes. The upper end of this long building is joined to a cross portion, apparently the better part of the fabric, but not of large dimensions. This has been modernized 4 to the requirements of a farm-house, and almost all its antient features obliterated. The walls are of great thickness, nearly six feet, and at the end are some later transomed Elizabethan windows, bricked up, and in a small outhouse below is "T.—1684;" a still later time-mark.

As far as could be observed, what at present remains, appears to be only a small portion of the original structure, but in which direction it extended is not certain. Aubrey, the Wiltshire antiquary, writing in 1650, and who visited Broke about that time, describes it as "a very great and stately old howse" with "a Hall which is great and open, with very olde windowes." There was a "canopie chamber," a dining room, parlour and chapel, and the windows were filled with coats shewing the armorial descent of Willoughby, which he minutely describes; and further, the windows "are most of them semée with Rudder of a Ship, or;"—and again he observes "the Rudder everywhere." We had greatly hoped to have enriched our sketch book with a similitude of one of those rudders, but alas, the most diligent search and enquiry was vain. Not a fragment of the old glazing remained, and neither arms, badge, nor device, was to be found anywhere on the building, sculptured or limned. A small enclosed garden (now used as a rick-plot), skirted with poplars, on the opposite side of the court, was the only other noticeable feature connected with the old place.

Thus much for Broke Hall...

And from the British History Online page on the history of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 8: Warminster, Westbury, and Whorwellsdown Hundreds:

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16111

A large house, traditionally said to have been second only to Longleat in size in the county, formerly stood near the site of Cutteridge Farm. The suggestion that it had not been built by Leland's time, because he did not mention it when he visited Brook, is plausible, and it may have been built by the Trenchards in the late 16th or early 17th century. All that is known of it is that it was remarkable for the number and size of its windows and that it was roofed with copper. It was pulled down c. 1800. (fn. 28) The house appears to have stood in front of and slightly south-west of the present farmhouse. In 1773 it was surrounded by formal gardens and approached by avenues of trees; (fn. 29) two avenues of old limes still remain.

From: 'North Bradley', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8: Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds (1965), pp. 218-234. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16111 Date accessed: 21 July 2010.

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-SEVERAL OTHER REFERENCES LIST ELIZABETH WILLOUGHBY AS THE DAU. OF EDWARD WILLOUGHBY & MARGARET NEVILLE Elizabeth Willoughby, 3rd Baroness Willoughby de Broke

Elizabeth Willoughby, 3rd Baroness Willoughby de Broke, de jure 11th Baroness Latimer (c.1512 – c. 15 November 1562) was an English noblewoman and wife of Sir Fulke Greville.

Elizabeth Willoughby was the eldest daughter of Edward Willoughby of Alcester, Warwickshire, and Powick, and Dorothy Anne Grey, daughter of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquis of Dorset (eldest son of Elizabeth Wydeville, Queen of England) and Cecily Bonville. Elizabeth's father, Edward Willoughby, died in November 1517, leaving Elizabeth still a minor. Her wardship was acquired in 1522 by Sir Edward Greville of Milcote, Warwickshire.[1] At her grandfather's death on 11 November 1521, the baronies of Willoughby de Broke and Latimer fell into abeyance despite his three granddaughters; all daughters of his son Edward; Elizabeth, Anne and Blanche.[2] The barony was settled on Elizabeth after their deaths s.p..[2]

Shortly before 11 April 1526 Sir Edward Greville married his ward Elizabeth to his second son, Sir Fulke Greville (bef. 1505–10 November 1559) of Beauchamps Court, Alcester.[3] He did so because Elizabeth preferred Fulk over his older brother.[4] A manuscript dated 1644 entitled The Genealogie, Life and Death of Robert, Lord Brooke, then in the possession of the Earl of Warwick, describes their courtship:

“ In the days of Henry VIII, I read of Sir Edward Greville, of Milcote, who had the wardenship of Elizabeth, one of the daus. of the Lord Brooke's son. The knight made a motion to his ward to be married to John, his eldest son, but she refused, saying that she did like better of Fulke, his 2nd son. He told her that he had no estate of land to maintain her; and that he was in the King's service of warre beyond the seas, and therefore his return was very doubtful. Shee replied and said, that shee had an estate sufficient both for him and herself, and that she would pray for his safety and wait for his coming. Upon his return home, for the worthy services he had performed, he was by King Henry honoured with a knighthood; and then married Elizabeth, the dau. of the Lord Brooke's son.[5] ” In 1542/3 Elizabeth's husband, Fulke Greville, was knighted by Henry VIII for military service to the crown. He was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1543 and a member of Parliament from 1547.[6] He further distinguished himself along with forty men in the suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace and served in campaigns in 1544 against France.[3] He built his wife and family a new house at Beauchamp's Court with stone reclaimed from Alcester Priory.[3] Fulk died on 10 Nov 1559.[3] Elizabeth died 9 November 1562 and was buried beside her husband with a monumental inscription.[3]

At her death the title passed to her eldest son, Fulke Greville, 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke.[5]

Elizabeth Willoughby and Sir Fulke Greville had seven sons and eight daughters[3] among whom were:

Fulke Greville, 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke.[5] Robert Greville Sir Edward Greville, who married Jane Grey.[7] Mary Greville, who married William Harris. Eleanor Greville, who married Sir John Conway. Katherine Greville (d.1611), who married Giles Reade (d.1611), esquire, of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, by whom she had thirteen children. Blanche Greville. Five additional sons Four other daughters From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Willoughby,_3rd_Baroness_Wi...

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Elizabeth Willoughby1,2,3,4,5,6 F, #80883, b. circa 1512 Father Edward Willoughby1,7,3,8,5,6 b. c 1494, d. Nov 1517 Mother Margaret Neville9,1,7,3,8,5,6 b. 9 Mar 1495 Elizabeth Willoughby was born circa 1512 at of Beauchamp's Court, Alcester, Warwickshire, England; Age 10 in 1522.10,3,4,6 She married Sir Fulk Greville, Sheriff of Warwickshire & Leicestershire, son of Sir Edward Greville, Justice of the Peace for Warwickshire and Anne Denton, circa 11 April 1526 at of Brooke, Wiltshire, England; They had 3 sons (Sir Fulk; Robert; & Sir Edward) and 8 daughters (including Mary, wife of William Harris; Eleanor, wife of Sir John Conway; Katherine, wife of Giles Reade, Esq; & Blanche).1,2,3,4,5,6 Elizabeth Willoughby was buried on 15 November 1562 at Alcester, Warwickshire, England.11,1,3,4,6 Family Sir Fulk Greville, Sheriff of Warwickshire & Leicestershire b. b 1505, d. 10 Nov 1559 Children Robert Greville+12 b. c 1537 Katherine Greville+13,3,4,6 b. c 1543, d. 1611 Sir Edward Greville+14,3,4,6 b. c 1545 Citations [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 132. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 338. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 269. [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 329. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 578. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 121-122. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 337. [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 328. [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 688. [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol.XII/2, p. 688. [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 689, notes. [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 269-270. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 132-133. From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2692.htm#... _________________

Elizabeth Willoughby, Baroness Willoughby de Broke1 F, #16913, d. 1560 Last Edited=15 Sep 2013 Consanguinity Index=0.03% Elizabeth Willoughby, Baroness Willoughby de Broke was the daughter of Edward Willoughby and Margaret Neville.1 She married Sir Fulke Greville circa 1534. She died in 1560.1 She succeeded to the title of Baroness Willoughby de Broke, de jure. Her married name became Greville. Children of Elizabeth Willoughby, Baroness Willoughby de Broke and Sir Fulke Greville Sir Fulke Greville, 4th Lord Willoughby de Broke+1 d. 1606 Robert Greville+2 Sir Edward Greville Citations [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 331. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 333. From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1692.htm#i16913 _______________________

Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY Born: 28 Apr 1510, probably Broke, Wiltshire, England Died: 15 Nov 1562 Father: Edward WILLOUGHBY Mother: Margaret NEVILLE Married: Fulke GREVILLE of Beauchamp's Court (Sir) BEF Apr 1526 Children: 1. Fulke GREVILLE (Sir Sheriff of Warwick) 2. William GREVILLE (b. ABT 1531) 3. Mary GREVILLE 4. Robert GREVILLE 5. Helen (Eleanor) GREVILLE 6. Edward GREVILLE (Sir) 7. Catherine GREVILLE 8. Catherine GREVILLE 9. Blanche GREVILLE (b. ABT 1544 / 1547) (never marr.) From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WILLOUGHBY3.htm#Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY3 __________________

From Cracroft's Peerage page on Willoughby de Broke:

http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/WilloughbyB1491.htm

Elizabeth Willoughby later Greville, de jure suo jure Baroness Willoughby de Broke and Baroness Latimer

born

mar.

bef. 11 Apr 1526 Sir Fulke Greville MP, of Beauchamp's Court, Alcester, co. Warwick, Foedary of all King Henry VIII's lands in Warwickshire and Worcestershire 1533-34, was ordered to attend on the King's own person with 40 men during the Northern Rebellion 1536, accompanied the King to meet Anne of Cleves at Blackheath 1539/40, Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1542-43 and 1547-48, knighted before 1544, served with the rearguard in the Boulogne campaign 1544, Member of Parliament for Warwickshire 1545-52 and 1554-55 (d. 10 Nov 1569; bur. at Alcester, co. Warwick), 2nd son of Sir Edward Greville, of Milcote, co. Warwick, by his wife Anne Denton, dau. of John Denton, of Amersden, co. Buckingham

children

Child 1. Sir Fulke Greville, later de jure 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke and 11th/12th Baron Latimer

Child 2. Robert Greville, of Thorpe Latimer, co. Lincoln, mar. Blanche Whitney, and had issue:

Grandchild 1a. Fulke Greville, of Thorpe Latimer, co. Lincoln (d. 1632), mar. 15 May 1602 Margaret Bosville (widow of Ralph Bosville, of Gunthwaite, co. York), dau. of Christopher Copley, of Wadsworth, co. York, and had issue:

GGChild 1b. Robert Greville MP, later 2nd Baron Brooke

GGChild 2b. William Greville

GGChild 1b. Dorothy Greville (d. 28 Jan 1650), mar. as his second wife Sir Arthur Hesilrige, 2nd Bt., of Noseley Hall, co. Leicester

Child 3. Sir Edward Greville

died Nov 1562 (bur. at Alcester, co. Warwick)

suc. by son

note:

had livery of half of her sister Anne's estates 1528 and suc. to the rest of the estates in 1554, when on the death of her only surviving sister she became entitled, according to the modern doctrine of abeyance, to the Baronies of Willoughby de Broke and Latimer;

Location of Broke:

This was obtained from a passage in the Project Gutenberg eBook: "The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West" by William Henry Hamilton Rogers.

At somewhat more than halfway distance between Weymouth on the skirt of the Atlantic, and the good old city of Bristow by the Severn sea, on the thin iron line that crosses the wide end of the western peninsula between those places,—and which in the early days of railway enterprise was cleverly, but of course futilely, stretched as a boom, designed to 'block' all further extension westward,—and just inside the county of Wilts, lies the quiet little town of Westbury.

[After some description]... Nothing very suggestive in all this as to our expedition to find the old home of Willoughby in these parts; he of the famed circle of the Garter, and first Baron by a name taken from the little rill of Brooke or Broke, that, outlasting his name and fame, still flows past the house that he occupied while in the flesh. Yet it cannot be very far off.

These are our thoughts as we look from the parapet of the bridge that carries the highway over the railroad below, our steps lead us northward, and although our local geography ends here, our usual luck for further guidance is at hand. An old stone-breaker by the wayside stays his hammer as we pass, to give us the morning's salutation, and to our respond we add the interrogatory as to our path to an old house or place called Brooke or Broke, somewhere near. "Brooke-Hall you mean" said he, with special emphasis on the affix, "I know it well, follow on for nearly a mile until the road leads into the brook; then turn into the gate on your right, go through two meadows and you will see Brooke Hall before you. It is an old antient place, and I have heard was a grand one once, but it is only a farm-house now."

With due thanks to, and musing on the inextinguishable influence of tradition, thus continued and wove into the life of our humble but intelligent informant, we saunter along, until the rippling sound of water attracts us on our left. Mounting the low ledge that bounds our path on its other side, at our feet in the enclosure below (locally termed the Bisse) the Brooke or Broke sparkles along gaily as ever, and apparently as undiminished as when four centuries a-past, the knight, whose memories we are in search of, forded its flow. A little farther beyond, and the lane we have been traversing descends abruptly into its bed, which forms a continuance of the thoroughfare for a short distance. Our path diverges through the gate on the right, and into the green fields.

Here, at once, although much ameliorated to the wants of the modern farmer, the undulating nature of the ground, the richness of the turf, and scattered stately trees still lingering about to attest its olden beauty and importance, we recognize unerringly the well known characteristics of an antient park, but apparently not of large size. Traces of a winding road lead on from the lane gate, and stretch 3 away over a swarded knoll, on the right; with pleasurable steps we reach the summit of the acclivity, and descry at about another field's space ahead, the still existing remains of the Brooke Hall of our trusty informant.

"A grand place once"—we ruminate, recalling the words of the old stone-breaker, as we halt under the shadow of a tall, massive gable, buttressed at the angles like a church, and with the original hip-knop a trefoil on a stalk, still very perfect, and bravely weathering the sunshine and breeze at its apex. From this gable stretches back a building ninety feet long with high-pitched roof, and forms one side of the farm-court. Its further end is joined to a cross-structure of smaller size, now used as the farm dwelling-house.

Cautiously we push open the large doors of the cow-court and look inside. This, from no dread of meeting, and having our intruding footsteps ordered off by the antient knight who once possessed it, but rather from the undesirableness of making too sudden acquaintanceship with the vigilant curly-tailed custodian of its precincts eyeing us from within, and who may not, until properly assured to the contrary, be quite satisfied with the object of our investigation; but a kindly word of advice to him, and of welcome to us, from his master close by, speedily puts everything at ease, and with full permission for inspection.

Before however we proceed to investigate the old place, we mentally join company with the famous old itinerant Leland, who came here on a similar errand, and recall the burthen of his description, when it was in pristine condition, and still in possession of the Willoughbys.

"There was of very aunciente tyme an olde maner place wher Brooke Hall is now, and parte of it yet appearithe, but the buyldynge that is there is of the erectynge of the Lorde Stewarde unto Kynge Henry the vii. The wyndowes be full of rudders. Peradventure it was his badge or token of the Amiraltye. There is a fayre Parke, but no great large thynge. In it be a great nombar of very fair and fyne greyned okes apt to sele howses.

"The broke that renithe by Brooke is properly caulyd Bisse, and risethe at a place namyd Bismouth, a two myles above Brooke village, an hamlet longynge to Westbyry paroche. Thens it cummithe onto Brooke village, and so a myle lower onto Brooke Haule, levinge it hard on the right ripe, and about a two miles lower it goith to Trougbridge, and then into Avon."

We enter the court yard, and the main portion remaining, which was probably erected by the Lord Steward, occupies the whole of the left side. It is a strong substantial building. The front toward the yard has three doorways having good late-pointed arches, and five two-light windows of small dimensions. Between the doorways are buttresses. At first sight, the building seems as if intended for a large hall, especially from the fine high-pitched roof, and its completeness inside, having all the old timbers remaining. But it appears to have been divided off, and formed into apartments, a considerable portion of the old wood partition-work still remains. It is now used as a stable, barn, and for other farm purposes. The upper end of this long building is joined to a cross portion, apparently the better part of the fabric, but not of large dimensions. This has been modernized 4 to the requirements of a farm-house, and almost all its antient features obliterated. The walls are of great thickness, nearly six feet, and at the end are some later transomed Elizabethan windows, bricked up, and in a small outhouse below is "T.—1684;" a still later time-mark.

As far as could be observed, what at present remains, appears to be only a small portion of the original structure, but in which direction it extended is not certain. Aubrey, the Wiltshire antiquary, writing in 1650, and who visited Broke about that time, describes it as "a very great and stately old howse" with "a Hall which is great and open, with very olde windowes." There was a "canopie chamber," a dining room, parlour and chapel, and the windows were filled with coats shewing the armorial descent of Willoughby, which he minutely describes; and further, the windows "are most of them semée with Rudder of a Ship, or;"—and again he observes "the Rudder everywhere." We had greatly hoped to have enriched our sketch book with a similitude of one of those rudders, but alas, the most diligent search and enquiry was vain. Not a fragment of the old glazing remained, and neither arms, badge, nor device, was to be found anywhere on the building, sculptured or limned. A small enclosed garden (now used as a rick-plot), skirted with poplars, on the opposite side of the court, was the only other noticeable feature connected with the old place.

Thus much for Broke Hall...

And from the British History Online page on the history of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 8: Warminster, Westbury, and Whorwellsdown Hundreds:

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16111

A large house, traditionally said to have been second only to Longleat in size in the county, formerly stood near the site of Cutteridge Farm. The suggestion that it had not been built by Leland's time, because he did not mention it when he visited Brook, is plausible, and it may have been built by the Trenchards in the late 16th or early 17th century. All that is known of it is that it was remarkable for the number and size of its windows and that it was roofed with copper. It was pulled down c. 1800. (fn. 28) The house appears to have stood in front of and slightly south-west of the present farmhouse. In 1773 it was surrounded by formal gardens and approached by avenues of trees; (fn. 29) two avenues of old limes still remain.

From: 'North Bradley', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8: Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds (1965), pp. 218-234. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16111 Date accessed: 21 July 2010.

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