Sir George Browne

Sir George 1443 - 1483 and Elizabeth (Paston, Poynings, Browne) Will states she only had three children, Edward Poynings and Mathew & Mary Browne.

The Visitation of Cambridge 1575 dose not confirm a son George, there is a George as son of Mathew but he died.

PLEASE DO NOT LINK THE ELIZABETH (1407 - 1437) WITH ELIZABETH (c.1393 - d.) THEY HAVE THE SAME FATHER BUT DIFFERENT MOTHERS. ELIZABETH (1407 - 1437) DAU OF JOAN ASTLEY DID NOT MARRY POYNINGS OR BROWN SHE MARRIED WILLIAM CALTHORPE

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George Browne (died 1483)

Sir George Browne (1440 – 4 December 1483) was the eldest surviving son and heir of Sir Thomas Browne, beheaded 20 July 1460. He took part in Buckingham's rebellion, and was beheaded on Tower Hill on 4 December 1483.

George Browne was the second but eldest surviving son of Sir Thomas Browne of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, and Eleanor Arundel, the daughter of Sir Thomas Arundel and Joan Moyne, daughter of Henry Moyne. By his mother's first marriage, he had six brothers, including Sir Anthony Browne,[1] and two sisters. After his father's death, his mother married Sir Thomas Vaughan (executed at Pontefract on 23 June 1483).[2]

On 30 September 1460, two months after his father's execution, Browne was granted a pardon by the Yorkists, and in 1470 was arrested with George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, and Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. He fought at the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471, and was knighted after the battle by the Duke of Clarence.[1]

He was elected a Member of Parliament for Guildford in 1472 and for Canterbury in 1483. In 1478 he was Knight of the Shire for Surrey, and in 1480 Sheriff of Kent.[1]

In 1472, he surrendered his title and the Manor of Tong to Cecily Neville, Duchess of York.[3]

An undated letter in Browne's hand to John Paston, esquire, containing the cryptic message 'It shall never come out for me', survives among the Paston letters.[4][5]

By 1483 he had switched his allegiance to the future Henry VII, and with a force in Kent took part in the rebellion by Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, against Richard III. According to Speed:[6]

• Another commotion at the same time was in Kent, where George Browne and John Guildford, knights, Fogge, Scot, Clifford and Bonting, with five thousand men attempted great matters at Gravesend, but hearing of the Duke of Buckingham’s surprise, dispersed themselves for that time....whereupon those that lately fled England were indicted of treason, and other of Henry’s factions beheaded, whereof Sir George Browne and Sir Roger Clifford, knights, with four others were beheaded at London, and at Exeter for the like cause died Sir Thomas Sentleger, who had married Lady Anne, Duchess of Exeter, King Richard’s own sister, with others, so jealous was the king of his usurped crown.

Browne was beheaded on Tower Hill on 4 December 1483, and buried at the Blackfriars, London. His widow left a will, proved 26 June 1488, in which she asked to be buried at the Blackfriars with her husband.[1]

In 1471 Browne married Elizabeth Paston (1 July 1429 – 1 February 1488), widow of Sir Robert Poynings (slain at the Second Battle of St Albans on 17 February 1461), and daughter of William Paston, Justice of the Common Pleas, and Agnes Berry. By her first marriage she had an only son, Sir Edward Poynings.[7][1][8][9][10]

By Elizabeth Paston, Browne had two sons and a daughter:[11]

• Sir Matthew Browne (d. 6 August 1557), who married Frideswide Guildford, daughter of Richard Guildford, by whom he had eight sons and six daughters.
• George Browne.
• Mary Browne, who married a husband surnamed Bradbridge (or Benbridge).

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Browne_(died_1483)

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• Sir George Browne
• Birth: 1439 Surrey, England
• Death: Dec. 4, 1483 Tower Hamlets, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England
• Knight of West Betchworth, Dorking and Southwark, Surrey. Of Roxley, Kent, and London. Burgess of Guildford, Knight of the Shire of Surrey, Sheriff of Kent, Burgess of Canterbury, stewrd of Whitley.
• Son and heir of Thomas Browne, who was convicted of high Treason and beheaded 1460, and Eleanor Arundel, daughter of Thomas and Joan Moyne.
• Husband of Elizabeth Paston, daughter of William Paston and Agnes Berry, widow of Robert Poynings, slain at the 2nd Battle of Albans 1461.
• They had two sons and one daughter: Sir Matthew, George and Mary, wife of a Bradbridge.
• George was pardoned by the Yorkists after his father was beheaded 30 Sept 1460. In 1470, he was one of those arrested with Clarence (George, Duke of Clarence, brother of King Edward IV) and Warwick (Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.) He later fought at Tewkesbury under Clarence and was knighted after, then denounced as a rebel in 23 Oct 1483, taken to Tower Hill and beheaded 04 Dec 1483. His estates were taken but returned by the Parliament in 1485 to his heirs.
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Elizabeth Paston Browne (1429 - 1488)
• Burial: Blackfriars London, Ludgate, City of London, Greater London, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 101780529
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=101780529 ________________
• Sir George Browne1
• M, #184394, b. 1439
• Last Edited=17 Aug 2007
• Sir George Browne was born in 1439 at Beechworth, Surrey, England.2 He was the son of Sir Thomas Browne and Eleanor Fitzalan.1
• He lived at Bettsworth Castle, Surrey, England.1
• Child of Sir George Browne
  • Sir Matthew Browne+1
• Citations
• [S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, page 28. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
• [S2313] Rob Underhill, "re: Stanley Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 9 June 2007. Hereinafter cited as "re: Stanley Family."
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p18440.htm#i184394 _________________________
• Thomas BROWNE (Sir Sheriff)
• Born: 1402
• Died: 1460, Beechworth Castle, Surrey
• Notes: Treasurer of the Household to Henry VI.
• Father: Robert BROWNE (Sir)
• Mother: ¿?
• Married: Eleanor FITZALAN 1437
• Children:
  • 1. Anthony BROWNE (Sir)
  • 2. George BROWNE (Sir)
  • 3. William BROWNE
  • 4. Thomas BROWNE
  • 5. Jane BROWNE
  • 6. Catherine BROWNE
  • 7. Robert BROWNE (Sir)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BROWNE1.htm#Thomas BROWNE (Sir Sheriff)1 ____________
• Elizabeth PASTON
• Born: ABT 1429/30
• Died: 1487/8
• Father: William PASTON
• Mother: Agnes BARRY
• Married 1: Robert POYNINGS (6º B. Poynings)
• Children:
  • 1. Edward POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
• Married 2: George BROWNE (Sir) AFT 1465
• Children:
  • 2. Mathew BROWNE (Sir)
  • 3. Mary BROWNE
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PASTON.htm#Elizabeth PASTON1 ________________________
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies ... By John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke
• http://books.google.com/books?id=LKIKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=G...
• Pg. 87
• SIR ROBERT BROWNE, living temp. HENRY V. was father of
• SIR THOMAS BROWNE, treasurer of the household to HENRY VI. and sheriff of Kent in 1444 and 1460. He m. Eleanor, daughter and sole heir of Sir Thomas Fitz-Alan, of Beechworth Castle, brother of John, Earl of Arundel, and had issue,
  • I. GEORGE (Sir), his heir.
  • II. William, whose son removed to Tavistock. This line is extinct.
  • III. Robert (Sir), knt. m. Mary, daughter of Sir William Mallet, knt., and had an only daughter and heiress, Eleanor, wife, first, of Sir Thomas Fogge, and secondly, of Sir William Kempe.
  • IV. Anthony (Sir), standard-bearer of England, esquire of the body, governor of Queenboro' Castle, and constable fo the castle of Calais. From this eminent person derive the LORDS MONTAGU, the heiress of which distinguished family, the Hon. ELIZABETH MARY BROWN, wedded WILLIAM STEPHEN POYNTZ, esq. M.P. (See BURKE'S Extinct Peerage and Commoners.)
  • I. Catherine, m. to Humphry Sackville of Buckhurst.
• Sir Thomas was s. by his eldest son,
• SIR GEORGE BROWNE, knt. of Beechworth Castle, sheriff of Kent in 1481, who espousing the cause of the Earl of Richmond, was included in the proclamation for apprehending the Duke of Buckingham and his associates, and being soon after taken, suffered decapitation in London anno 1483. he m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Paston, and widow of Richard Lord Poynings (NOTE BY CP., THIS SHOULD BE ROBERT POYNINGS), and was s. by his son,
• SIR MATTHEW BROWNE, knt., of Beechworth Castle, sheriff of Surrey in 1496, living in 1530, who m. Fridiswide, daughter of Sir Richard Guilford, K.G. of Hempsted, in Kent, and had issue,
  • .... etc. ______________

History of Brockham

http://www.brockhamvillage.co.uk/about/about_history/about_history.htm

Dame Elizabeth (1429–1488), widow of Sir George Browne was a member of the famous Norfolk family of Paston. Sir George Browne, 1st son of Betchworth Castle and Sheriff of Kent, was executed in 1483 in London for supporting Henry VII. His father Sir Thomas Browne, of Betchworth Castle and Sheriff of Kent also suffered a similar fate, being executed on 20 Jul 1460 at the age of 46, after a battle in the War of the Roses. The link with the FitzAlan family is here with Sir Thomas who married Alainor FitzAlan, daughter of Sir Thomas FitzAlan (d 1431).

During the time that the Brownes lived at Betchworth Castle, until about 1690, the house underwent several alterations and redevelopment, including a major remodelling.

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/43, ff. 457-8

http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-43_ff_457-8.pdf

SUMMARY: The document below is the Prerogative Court of Canterbury copy of the

will dated 24 August 1558 and proved 11 December 1560 of Eleanor (nee Browne)

Kempe, the widow of Sir William Kempe (1487-1539) of Olantigh in Kent, and the

grandmother of the comedian Will Kempe and of Alice (nee Kempe) Hales (d.1592), the

dedicatee of Robert Greene’s Menaphon (1589), to which Thomas Nashe contributed a

preface. For the will of Sir Wiliam Kempe, see PROB 11/27, f. 228.

The testatrix was the only daughter and heir of Robert Browne of the manor of West

Betchworth in Surrey and his wife Mary Mallet, the daughter of Sir William Mallet.

Robert Browne’s brother, Sir Anthony Browne (d.1506), by his second wife, Lucy

Neville (d.1534), was the great-grandfather of Mary Browne (c.1552-1607), the mother of

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, the dedicatee of Shakespeare’s Venus and

Adonis (1593), and The Rape of Lucrece (1594), and of Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate

Traveller (1594). By his first wife, Sir Anthony Browne (d.1506) had a daughter, Anne

Browne, who was the first wife of Charles Brandon (c.1484-1545), Duke of Suffolk, who

married as his fourth wife Katherine Willoughby (1519-1580), later the mother-in-law of

Oxford’s sister, Mary de Vere (d.1624). Another brother, Sir George Browne (d.1483),

married Elizabeth Paston, and had a son, Sir Matthew Browne (d.1557) of West

Betchworth, who married Frideswide Guildford, the daughter of Sir Richard Guildford

(c.1450-1506) and his first wife, Anne Pympe. Frideswide’s sister, Mary Guildford,

married Christopher Kempe, the elder brother of the testatrix’ husband, Sir William

Kempe (1487-1539). Sir Edward Guildford (c.1479-1534), the brother of Mary and

Frideswide, married his daughter Jane Guildford to his ward, John Dudley (1504-1553),

Duke of Northumberland. They were the parents of Queen Elizabeth’s favourite, Robert

Dudley, Earl of Leicester. For the Browne family of Betchworth, who were descended

from King John of England, see Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore:

Genealogical Publishing, 2004), pp. 62-3, 160. For Browne and Guildford pedigrees, see

Burke, John and Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and

Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland, 2nd ed. (London: Scott, 1841),

pp. 87, 231.

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Sir George Browne, born in 1434, resided at Betchworth Castle, in Surrey, England. Sir George Browne was Knighted by King Edward IV after the Battle of Wekesbury in 1471. During the first year of the reign of King Richard III, Sir George Browne fell victim to the intrigues of Royal power. The New Duke of Norfolk had taken over and using his influence, Sir George was convicted of being involved in the revolt of the Duke of Buckingham against King Richard III, and was beheaded on Tower Hill on 4 Dec 1483. This plot was an excuse for the elimination of any descendents of the Plantagenets of which the Betchworth Brownes stood in line to progress towards the crown of England. Sir George Browne's fifth great-grandfather was King Henry III of England.

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• 'Paston01'
• William Paston of Paston (b c1378, d 14.08.1444, judge) - continued above
• m. Agnes Berry (dau of Sir Edmund Berry or Barrey by Alice, dau of Sir John Gerbridge by Elizabeth)
  • 1. John Paston of Paston (b c1421, d 1466)
  • m. Margaret Mawtby (dau of John Mawtby by Margaret, dau of John Barney of Redham)
    • A. .... etc.
  • The following are shown by BEB1841 as children of William but by Visitation as children of William's son John. Other than to report that he was son of Judge William, BE1883 starts with John, showing him as married to Margaret Mantby (having John and "several other children") then Anne Beaufort (having Sir William "inter alios"). Following cross-references from elsewhere and noting the dates, we suggest the following allocation but stress that it is not certain.
    • C. Sir William Paston
    • m. Anne Beaufort (dau of Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset)
      • i. William Paston (dsp)
      • ii. Anne Paston
      • m. Sir Gilbert Talbot (d 22.10.1542)
      • iii. Elizabeth Paston
      • m. Sir John Savill of Thornhill
      • iv. Mary Paston (b 19.01.1469/70, d 1489) apparently of this generation
      • m. Ralph Nevill (dvp 1498, son of Earl of Westmorland)
    • D. Anne Paston
    • m. William Yelverton (a 1474)
  • 2. Elizabeth Paston
  • m1. Robert Poynings (d 17.02.1460/1, son of Lord Robert)
  • We presume that this was the Elizabeth, described by BEB1841 (Browne of Beechworth) as widow of Richard, Lord Poynings, who also married ...
  • m2. Sir George Browne of Beechworth Castle (d 1483)
  • 3. Margery Paston uncertain on what generation she belonged to
  • m. Robert Colle or Call
  • 4.+ other issue - Edmund, Walter
• Main source(s):
• (1) For upper section : Visitation (Norfolk, 1563+1589+1613, Paston)
• (2) For lower section : BEB1841 (Paston of Oxnead), BE1883 (Paston of Yarmouth), Visitation (Norfolk, 1563+1589+1613, Paston)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/pp/paston01.php ________________
• Links
• http://www.theweald.org/N10.asp?NId=20170018
• http://www.brownsociety.org/browngen/11665.pdf ______________