Biography of Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis 1507-1557

In 1507 Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis was born illegitimately to Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 23) and Anne Browne.

In 1511 [her mother] Anne Browne died.

In 1525 Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis (age 22) and Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis (age 18) were married. She by marriage Baroness Grey of Powis. She the illegitmate daughter of Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 41) and Anne Browne. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry IV of England.

In 1538 Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis (age 31) left her husband Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis (age 35) for Randal Haworth.

In 1540 Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis (age 37) petitioned the Privy Council to punish his wife Anne (age 33) for adultery, and also accused Anne and Randal Haworth of conspiring to murder him. No action was taken against Anne, and she remained with Randal Haworth; however, this scandalous arrangement caused her to be excluded from [her father] Charles Brandon's (age 56) will.

On 22nd August 1545 [her father] Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 61) died. His son [her half-brother] Henry (age 9) succeeded 2nd Duke Suffolk, 2nd Viscount Lisle.

In 1557 Anne Brandon Baroness Grey Powis (age 50) died.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 13th January 1558. The xiij day of January was bered at [Westminster] in sant Margerett parryche my lade Powes, [daughter] to the [her father] duke of Suffoke, Charles Brandon, [with two] whytt branchys, xij torchys, and iiij grett [tapers,] with xij skochyons of armes.

Note. P. 163. Funeral of lady Powis. Anne widow of Edward lord Grey of Powis, whose death occurred in p. 7. She had remarried Randle Hanworth, esq.; and by the note of his will which Dugdale gives, Baronage, ii. 284, it appears that she desired to be buried either at St. Paul's or Westminster abbey. His interment was not at the parish church of St. Margaret's, Westminster, the register of which I have examined.

Note. P. 163. Funeral of lady Powis. Though the interment of this lady (as stated in p. 362) is not recorded in the parish register of Saint Margaret's Westminster, yet the following entries relative to her funeral occur in the churchwardens' accounts:

Item, of my lady Anne Pois for iiij tapers ijs. viijd.

Item, at the obsequy of my lady Anne Poys for the belles iijs. iiijd.

Item, of my lady Anne Pois for the clothe viijd.