'Bray01'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Bray of Bray, Bray(e) of Eaton Braye

William, Sr de Bray (a 1066) succeeded by ...

1.

Sir Robert de Bray (ranger of Sancy Forest, Northamptonshire)

A.

Auncell de Bray mentioned by Visitation

i.

John de Bray

B.

Sir James de Bray (a temp Richard I who r. 1189-1199)

i.

Anselm de Bray

a.

William de Bray

(1)

Thomas de Bray

m1. ??

(A)

John Bray

(i)

Thomas Bray (dsp)

m(2). Alice Braxby or Braveby

(B)

William Bray

(i)

Edmond Bray

(a)

Sir Richard Bray (a 1463, PC or physician)

Visitation shows all Sir Richard's children by a Grace Troughton but BLG1886, BP1934 & BE1883 all show his marriages as follows.

m1. Margaret Sandes (dau of John (sb. William?) Sandes of Furness Fell)

((1))

Sir John Bray

((A))

Margery Bray (d 03.1538/9)

m. William Sandys, 1st Lord of The Vyne (b c1470, d 12.1540)

m2. Joan shown by some sites as Joan Troughton

((2))

Sir Reginald Bray (dsp, Treasurer to King Henry VII)

((3))

John (not Richard) Bray of Eaton Braye

((A))

Edmund Bray or Braye, 1st Lord (b c1484, d 18.10.1539)

m. Jane Hallighwell (d 24.10.1558, dau of Sir Richard Hallighwell or Halywell of Holwell by Jane Norbury)

((i))

John Braye, 2nd Lord (b c1523, dsp 19.11.1557)

m. Anne Talbot (d 03.02.1584, dau of Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury)

((ii))

Anne Braye (d 01.11.1558)

m. (before 1526) George Brooke, 9th Lord Cobham (b c1497, d 29.09.1558)

((iii))

Elizabeth Braye (d 1573)

m1. Sir Ralph Verney of Pendley and Middle Claydon (d 1546)

A descendant from this marriage succesfully claimed the barony in 1839.

m2. Sir Richard Catesby

m3. William Clark

m4. Henry Phillips

((iv))

Frideswide Braye

m. Sir Percival Hart of Lullingstone

((v))

Mary Braye (d 1569)

m. Sir Robert Peckham

((vi))

Dorothy Braye (b c1530, d 31.10.1605)

m. (c1548) Edmund Brydges, 2nd Lord Chandos of Sudeley (b before 1522, d 11.03.1572/3)

((vii))

Frances Braye (d 1592)

m. Thomas Lyfield of Stoke d'Auberon

((a))

Jane Lyfield

m. Sir Thomas Vincent of Bernack and Stoke D'Abernon (d 14.12.1613)

((B))

Sir Edward Bray of Vachery Park and Shere, sheriff of Surrey and Sussex (d 01.12.1558)

m1. (div) Elizabeth Lovell (dau of Henry Lovell of Lorting)

m2. Beatrix Shirley (dau of Raffe Shirley, widow of Elderton)

m3. Jane Brown (dau of Sir Matthew Brown)

((C))

Reginald Bray of Barrington

m. Anne Monington (dau of Richard Monington)

((D))

Elizabeth Bray

m. Sir John Norris

((4))

Lucy Bray

m1. Richard Andrews (of Frisfolke), Hampshire

((A))

Richard Andrews

m. Katherin Welsh (dau of Thomas Welsh, Baron of the Exchequer)

((i))+

issue - Katherine, Constance

m2. Roger Walwyn

((5))

Joane Bray

m. Isack ap Rhys

((A))

Robert ap Rys of Washingley

(b)

Edmond Bray

(C)+

other issue - Alice, Joane

Main source(s): BLG1886 (Bray of Shere) with input from BP1934 (Braye), TCP (Braye) and support from BE1883 (Braye), Visitation (Sussex, 1530+1633-4, Bray)
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