Margery Bray

• Margery Bray
• also known as Margaret
• F, #149993, d. March 1538/39
• Last Edited=20 Jan 2013
• Margery Bray was the daughter of Sir John “the elder” Bray.1 She married William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, son of Sir William Sandys, before 26 August 1496.1 She died in March 1538/39.1
• From before 26 August 1496, her married name became Sandys.1

Heiress of her uncle, Sir Reginald Bray, who died without issue.

Children of Margaret Bray and William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, include

• Thomas Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys2. He married Elizabeth Manners, daughter of George Manners, 11th Lord de Ros of Helmsley and Anne St. Leger, before 1513.1

Citations

• 1.[S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 491. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p15000.htm#i149993

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Biographical notes

Reginald Bray died without issue on 5 August 1503, and was buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor.[5] Bray had a brother of the whole blood, John Bray, and an elder half brother, also named John Bray. After litigation, Reginald Bray's estates were divided between his nephew, Edmund Bray, eldest son of his brother of the whole blood, John Bray, and William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, who had married Margery Bray, the daughter of Bray's elder brother of the half blood, John Bray.[5]

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bray-2076

Margaret was the daughter of John Bray, half-brother to Sir Reginald Bray, the statesman and architect, who probably helped her husband William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys with his work at the Vyne. They had at least three sons and four daughters, including Thomas, the 2nd Lord Sandys, and Mary, who married Sir William Pelham, and was the mother of Sir William Pelham and Sir Edmund Pelham, Lord Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.

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• A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours (1835) Vol. III
• https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhera03burk
• https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhera03burk#page/243/mode/1up
• SIR RICHARD BRAY, is said by some to have been of the privy council to HENRY VI. ; by others he is called the King's Physician ; the former is the more probable, as he was buried in Worcester cathedral. He had two wives; by the first, Margaret, dau. of John Sandes, esq. of Furnes Felles, in Lancashire, he had an only son,
  • JOHN (Sir), whose only daughter and heir,
    • MARGARET BRAY, espoused Sir William Sandys, summoned to parliament in 1529, as Baron Sandys, of the Vine, and conveyed to his lordship a considerable estate.(*) The barony of Sandys fell into abeyance, on the decease of the eighth lord, about the year 1700, and it so continues. (See BURKE's Extinct Peerage).
• By the second, Joan, Sir Richard had two other sons, namely,
  • 1. Reginald (Sir), who being in the service of Margaret, Countess of Richmond, (+) was confidentially employed in the negotiations preceding the enterprize of her son, the earl, which placed that prince on the throne as Henry VII. Sir Reginald was made a knight banneret at Bosworth, and afterwards one of the knights of the body to the new king, who further rewarded his fidelity and zeal
  • (*) .... etc.
  • by large grants (§) of land, and by conferring upon him the order of the Bath, and finally that of the GARTER. He was also of the privy council, and heId for one year the office of Lord Treasurer.(||) He m. Catherine, daughter of Nicholas Hussey; but dying without issue, devised the principal part of his landed estate between his nephew, Edmund Bray, and his niece, MARGARET, the wife of Lord Sandys. Sir Reginald laid the first stone of HENRY the Seventh's CHAPEL, at Westminster, on the 24th January, 1502-3, and died on the 5th August, in the same year. By his will he directed that his body should be buried in the chapel, on the south side of the church of Our Ladie and St. George, in the castle
  • (§) .... etc.
  • https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhera03burk#page/244/mode/1up
  • of Windsor, which he had new made with that intent, and also in honour of Almighty God.(*)
  • II. John.
• The younger son,
• JOHN BRAY, esq. who was buried in the chancel of the church at Chelsea, m. ____ , and had, with a daughter, the wife of Sir John Norris, three sons, .... etc.

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Some Notes for a History of the "Sandys" Family ... By Comely Vivian. Page 6-7. GoogleBooks

When Lord Sandys succeeded to the Vyne he found it no very great or sumptuous manor place, being contained merely within the moat, and perhaps consisting only of that building of which part still remains, south of the present house; but he “so translated and augmented it, and, besides, building a fair Base Court, that it became one of the principal houses in goodly building in all Hamptonshire.” In this undertaking he was greatly aided by his marriage with Margery Bray, niece and heiress of Sir Reginald Bray, Knight of the Garter, who by his skill in the arts of diplomacy and architecture, earned wealth and distinction, and held many great civil employments. It was Sir Reginald Bray who designed the Chapel of Henry VII. at Westminster, and was the Architect of a great part of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. In the middle of the South Aisle of the latter he was allowed to build the Chapel called by his name, in which he was buried, and his device, a “bray” or “hemp-breaker,” appears in many parts of that building. As he lived until 1503 it is probable that the Vyne Chapel owes something to his genius as an architect; in fact it has been with much reason believed that the most beautiful work there was from his design.

Guillim (page 427, 6th edition) remarks respecting the heraldic devices borne by Lord Sandys:

William Lord Sandys, having issue by the said Margaret, did thereupon assume the bearing of her arms upon his own, which he could not have done unless she had been an heiress, for otherwise he must have borne the same still impaled, and not otherwise, notwithstanding the issue received by her"; and describes the shield thus:
“The field is pearl, a cross raguled and truncated diamond, the paternal coat of Lord Sandys, thereon an inescutcheon of two coats, borne quarterly. The first is pearl, a chevron, between three eagles' legs à l'aguaise, diamond: The second, verry; three bends, ruby. This coat armour borne by the Lord Sandys who was Lord Chamberlain to King Henry VIII.”

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• Margaret BRAY
• Father: John BRAY (Sir)
• Mother: ¿?
• Married: William SANDYS (1º B. Sandys of the Vine)
• Children:
  • 1. Mary SANDYS
  • 2. Elizabeth SANDYS
  • 3. Thomas SANDYS (2º B. Sandys of the Vine)
  • 4. Alice SANDYS
  • 5. Margaret SANDYS
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BRAY.htm#Margaret BRAY1 __________________________
• 'Bray01'
• William, Sr de Bray (a 1066) succeeded by ...
  • 1. Sir Robert de Bray (ranger of Sancy Forest, Northamptonshire)
    • A. Auncell de Bray mentioned by Visitation
      • i. John de Bray
    • B. Sir James de Bray (a temp Richard I who r. 1189-1199)
      • i. Anselm de Bray
        • a. William de Bray
          • (1) Thomas de Bray
          • m1. ??
            • (A) John Bray
              • (i) Thomas Bray (dsp)
          • m(2). Alice Braxby or Braveby
            • (B) William Bray
              • (i) Edmond Bray
                • (a) Sir Richard Bray (a 1463, PC or physician)
                • Visitation shows all Sir Richard's children by a Grace Troughton but BLG1886, BP1934 & BE1883 all show his marriages as follows.
                • m1. Margaret Sandes (dau of John (sb. William?) Sandes of Furness Fell)
                  • ((1)) Sir John Bray
                    • ((A)) Margery Bray (d 03.1538/9)
                    • m. William Sandys, 1st Lord of The Vyne (b c1470, d 12.1540)
                • m2. Joan shown by some sites as Joan Troughton
                  • ((2)) Sir Reginald Bray (dsp, Treasurer to King Henry VII)
                  • ((3)) John (not Richard) Bray of Eaton Braye
                    • ((A)) Edmund Bray or Braye, 1st Lord (b c1484, d 18.10.1539)
                    • m. Jane Hallighwell (d 24.10.1558, dau of Sir Richard Hallighwell or Halywell of Holwell by Jane Norbury)
                      • ((i)) John Braye, 2nd Lord (b c1523, dsp 19.11.1557)
                      • m. Anne Talbot (d 03.02.1584, dau of Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury)
                      • ((ii)) Anne Braye (d 01.11.1558)
                      • m. (before 1526) George Brooke, 9th Lord Cobham (b c1497, d 29.09.1558)
                      • ((iii)) Elizabeth Braye (d 1573)
                      • m1. Sir Ralph Verney of Pendley and Middle Claydon (d 1546)
                      • A descendant from this marriage succesfully claimed the barony in 1839.
                      • m2. Sir Richard Catesby of Legers Ashby
                      • m3. William Clark
                      • m4. Henry Phillips
                      • ((iv)) Frideswide Braye
                      • m. Sir Percival Hart of Lullingstone
                      • ((v)) Mary Braye (d 1569)
                      • m. Sir Robert Peckham
                      • ((vi)) Dorothy Braye (b c1530, d 31.10.1605)
                      • m. (c1548) Edmund Brydges, 2nd Lord Chandos of Sudeley (b before 1522, d 11.03.1572/3)
                      • ((vii)) Frances Braye (d 1592)
                      • m. Thomas Lyfield of Stoke d'Auberon
                        • ((a)) Jane Lyfield
                        • m. Sir Thomas Vincent of Bernack and Stoke D'Abernon (d 14.12.1613)
                      • ((vii)) Jane Braye (d young)
                    • ((B)) Sir Edward Bray of Vachery Park and Shere, sheriff of Surrey and Sussex (d 01.12.1558)
                    • m1. (div) Elizabeth Lovell (dau of Henry Lovell of Lorting)
                    • m2. Beatrix Shirley (dau of Raffe Shirley, widow of Elderton)
                    • m3. Jane Brown (dau of Sir Matthew Brown)
                    • ((C)) Reginald Bray of Barrington
                    • m. Anne Monington (dau of Richard Monington)
                    • ((D)) Elizabeth Bray
                    • m. Sir John Norris
                  • ((4)) Lucy Bray
                  • m1. Richard Andrews (of Frisfolke), Hampshire
                    • ((A)) Richard Andrews
                    • m. Katherin Welsh (dau of Thomas Welsh, Baron of the Exchequer)
                      • ((i))+ issue - Katherine, Constance
                  • m2. Roger Walwyn
                  • ((5)) Joane Bray
                  • m. Isack ap Rhys
                • (b) Edmond Bray
            • (C)+ other issue - Alice, Joane
• Main source(s): BLG1886 (Bray of Shere) with input from BP1934 (Braye), TCP (Braye) and support from BE1883 (Braye), Visitation (Sussex, 1530+1633-4, Bray)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/bb4fz/bray01.php
• Collections for a history of Staffordshire (1880)
• http://www.archive.org/details/collectionsforhi191719183staf
• http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi191719183staf#page/n3...
• (6) (Sir) Reynold Bray (K.B., K.G.), M.P. Newcastle 1477-8, Southampton 1491-2, in 1495-6, and probably at other times, for these or other places.
• Born c. 1440 ; son of Richard Bray of Worcester, Surgeon, by Jane (Troughton). He was receiver general and steward to Sir Henry Stafford, younger son of the first Duke of Buckingham, from about 1465. Sir Henry married (1457/60) Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, mother . . . .
• http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi191719183staf#page/n3...
• Will of Sir Reynold Bray, Kt., dated 4 August 1502, proved 1503. To be buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. He leaves much money for masses, for completing St. George's Chapel, for the Friary at Guildford where his mother Joan lies buried ; masses for his father Richard Bray ; his wife Katherine was still alive. His manors, Southmorton and Staunden, Berks, Southherting and Rogate, Sussex, and Chelheath, Middlesex, he leaves to his wife for life, reversion to his younger nephews (Edward and Reynold Bray). His brother John Bray (the younger) appears to have been dead, leaving three sons, the eldest being Edmund (afterwards Baron of Eaton-Bray), all under 21. The two younger of these three are to marry Elizabeth and Agnes,
• http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi191719183staf#page/n3...
• daughters of Henry Lovett, wards of Sir Reynold's, if they are to inherit the manors. His manor of Fryfolk, Hants, to his nephew Richard Andrews and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of John Rogers. Other relatives whom he remembers are, niece Margery wife of Sir William Sandys, Kt. (afterwards Lord Sandes of the Vine), and nephew Robert the son of his sister Jane Isaak, and Jane Robert's wife, daughter of John Ottvy, who has L21 a year. He also leaves 40 m. a year for the Dean and Canons of St. George's to endow a perpetual charity for old men and old women.

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• Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Bray
• http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bray,_Reginald_(DNB00)_
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ReginaldBray.htm
• Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 20. Archive.Org
• https://www.bas-herit-soc.org/famous_people.html __________________