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Katherine Willoughby was born on March 22, 1519, the daughter of the eleventh Baron Willoughby and his wife Maria De Salinis, one of Katherine of Aragon’s original Spanish Ladies in Waiting. In March 1528, the Baron died without a son, making nine-year-old Katherine his only heir. Henry VIII controlled the little girl’s wardship- but that ...
9 de mar. de 2015 · In 1533 Katherine Willoughby married Charles Brandon, Henry VIII’s closest friend. She would go on to serve at the court of every Tudor monarch bar Henry VII and Mary Tudor. Duchess of Suffolk at the age of fourteen, she became a powerful woman ruling over her houses at Grimsthorpe and Tattershall in Lincolnshire and wielding subtle influence through her proximity to the king.
This may have sapped his remaining strength, as he died in August 1545. Katherine, aged twenty-six, was now a wealthy widow. She regained control of her Willoughby inheritance (her mother had died in 1540, so there was no dower to pay), and also had the right to one-third of the income of Suffolk’s lands, which were inherited by their son, Henry.
1 de mai. de 2016 · Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk Maria de Salinas was a lady-in-waiting and close friend to Katherine of Aragon; indeed, she probably came to England with the Spanish princess in 1501 for the marriage to Henry’s older brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales. Katherine and Maria were very close and the Spanish ambassador complained of Maria ...
Katherine Willoughby, duchess of Suffolk, was one of the highest-ranking noblewomen in sixteenth-century England. She wielded considerable political power in he...
Katherine Willoughby is today little known beyond the confines of history books, but was one of the most remarkable – and interesting – women of the Tudor period. Married in 1533 to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Henry VIII’s closest friend, when she was just fourteen and he nearly fifty, she was later romantically linked with both ...
On 7 September 1533, hardly two months after Mary's death, Brandon married for the fourth time. His bride was Katherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (22 March 1519 – 19 September 1580), the daughter and heiress of William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, by his second wife, María de Salinas.
