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Henry Brandon: Mary Bye
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Lester Henry BRANDON was born in Hatton, Traill, ND on 23 Dec 1908. He died in Larimore, Grand Forks, ND on 7 Nov 1999. He was the son of Ole Olsen and Mary Bye. He was buried in Bellevue kirkegård, Larimore.
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The marriage produced a son Henry Brandon and two daughters, Frances and Eleanor Brandon. The elder of these, Frances, later married Henry Grey, Marquis Dorset, the great-grandson of Queen Elizabeth Woodville (queen of Edward IV) through her first marriage to Sir John Grey. The Grey family had an ancient and impressive lineage, originally being granted lands by Richard the Lionheart. Mary Tudor's grandaughter, Jane Grey, was born at Bradgate Manor, on the edge of Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, in October 1537.
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Brandon was twice married: first, in 1840, in London, to Constance Mary Ann, née Brandon; and, secondly, in New Zealand, in 1854, to Lucy Poole. He had four sons and four daughters. Brandon died at Hobson Street, Wellington, on 22 September 1886.
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In the interval between 1537 and 1540 Mary watched as Henry carried out his dissolution of the monasteries. In keeping with his new title of Head of the Church of England it was not seemly to have religious houses who held allegiance to the Pope, now called the Bishop of Rome. These abbeys, monasteries and nunneries had through the centuries become very wealthy and the inhabitants had been drawn into a more secular lifestyle not much different from the landed gentry. It was first a type of reform that attacked only the smaller monasteries that had few inhabitants and inadequate resources. It was profitable to close them But this led to the closing of all the religious houses and appropriating their property and wealth back to the crown. Henry gave the land to leading nobles and the former monks and nuns went back to secular lifestyles.
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The wrath of her formidable brother had then to be faced who flew into a rage on reciept of the news, threatening to behead Brandon. In the eyes of her contemporaries, Mary had married far beneath her station. Charles' father William Brandon had been the standard-bearer of Henry VII and had been killed in his service at the Battle of Bosworth by Richard III . The couple were eventually forgiven through the intercession of Cardinal Wolsey, although they had to forfeit a heavy fine. They were married again, amidst feasting and celebrations in the presence of the king and queen at Greenwich Palace on 13 May.
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Suffolk and Mary were wed again at Greenwich Palace on 13 May with Henry and Catalina De Aragon in attendance. There was feasting and celebration but it was strictly a family affair and foreign Ambassadors wondered if they should congratulate the couple. After all, the situation was odd and there were some (mostly on the king's council) who disapproved of the match. But, for the most part, there were no hard feelings or grudges. Suffolk was a popular man, good-looking and charming, and few - even in Tudor England - could resist such a grand love story. After all, they had risked everything to be together.
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