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Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (née Lady Frances Brandon; 16 July 1517 – 20 November 1559), was an English noblewoman.She was the second child and eldest daughter of King Henry VIII's younger sister, Princess Mary, and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
Frances Grey may refer to: Frances Grey (actress) (born 1970), Scottish television actress Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (1517–1559), granddaughter of Henry VII of England and mother of Lady Jane Grey
She married Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and was the mother of Lady Jane Grey, de facto Queen of England. Henry VII was the son of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (a half-brother of Henry VI of England) by his wife Lady Margaret Beaufort, a legitimised descendant of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, 3rd son of King Edward III.
A famous portrait, purportedly of Frances Grey and Adrian Stokes, made by George Vertue in 1748. The likenesses in the portrait have since been identified as actually being those of Mary Fiennes, Baroness Dacre and her son Gregory. [1] Adrian Stokes (4 March 1519 [2] – 3 November 1585) was an English courtier and politician.
It confirmed the line of succession as one living male and six living females. It began with Henry's three children, Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, followed by the three daughters of Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, who was the second child and eldest daughter of Henry VIII's younger sister, Princess Mary.
17 January – Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, politician and courtier (executed 1554) 16 July – Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, granddaughter of Henry VII (died 1559) approx. date – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, aristocrat and poet (executed 1547) 1518 approx. date – Edmund Plowden, legal scholar (died 1585) 1519
Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk; Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk (died 1715) Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussex; T. Antigone of Gloucester, Countess of ...
Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk: Edward VI of England: Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford: Lady Catherine Grey: Lady Jane Grey: Dukes of Somerset: Many Generations: Many Generations: Elizabeth, Queen of the United Kingdom: George VI of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom