Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye

Origins

Career

Marriage and children

• John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye, eldest son and heir, who died childless when his heirs became his six sisters;
• Anne Bray, eldest daughter, who married George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham, lord of the manor of Cobham, Kent; her alabaster recumbent effigy survives, together with that of her husband, on their magnificent monument in St Mary Magdalene's Church, Cobham;
• Elizabeth Bray, second daughter, who married Sir Ralph Verney, of Pendley in Tring, Hertfordshire, and of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, whose monumental brasses with heraldic shields survive in the Church of St. John the Baptist, Aldbury, Hertfordshire. On her robe are engraved the arms of Verney impaling Bray ; 2: Sable, a chevron between three bull's heads cabossed argent ; 3: Gules, a fess chequy argent and sable between six crosslets formée fitchée argent ; 4: Or, two bends gules. She married secondly to Richard Catesby. Her sons included:
• *Edmund Verney, of Pendley, eldest son and heir, twice MP for Buckinghamshire;
• *Francis Verney, of Salden in Mursley, Buckinghamshire, 4th son, also twice MP for Buckinghamshire;
• Frideswide Bray, who married Sir Percyval Hart, chief sewer and knight harbinger to King Henry VIII;
• Mary Bray, who married George Peckham;
• Dorothy Bray , youngest daughter, who married Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos. She served as a Maid of Honour to three queens consort of King Henry VIII, namely Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr.
• Frances Bray, who married Thomas Lefeild.

  Death and burial