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Sir Anthony Browne, KG (c.1500〔Bindoff. ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558,'' ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982. ('BROWNE, Sir Anthony (c.1500-48), of Battle Abbey and Cowdray Park, Suss.' )〕 – 6 May 1548) was an English courtier and Knight of the Shire. ==Life== He was the son of Sir Anthony Browne, Standard Bearer of England and Governor of Queenborough Castle, by his wife Lady Lucy Neville, daughter of John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu and widow of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam.〔 Anthony junior was thereby half-brother of William Fitzwilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton. By 1528, Browne married Alice, daughter of Sir John Gage, and by her had seven sons and three daughters which included:〔 *Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu; *Mary Browne, who married John Grey of Pirgo and was the mother of Henry Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Groby; *Mabel Browne, who married Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare; *Annabelle Browne, who married Thomas Spring of Castlemaine. His recorded royal service began in 1518, when he was appointed surveyor and master of hunting for the Yorkshire castles and Lordships of Hatfield, Thorne, and Conisbrough. He was included him in an embassy to hand over Tournai to Francois I. Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, knighted him on 1 July 1522. In 1525 he was made lieutenant of the Isle of Man. He was ambassador to France in 1527, reporting home in increasingly anti-French terms. In 1539 he was appointed Master of the Horse for life. During the uprisings in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, Browne was sent against the Catholic protesters, to test his loyalty. Anthony maintained Henry's trust. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1540. When Henry VIII came to Rochester to meet Anne of Cleves, he first sent Anthony, as his Master of Horse, into her chamber. He later declared that he was never more dismayed in his life, lamenting in his heart to see the Lady so far and unlike that was reported. Henry confided his own disappointment the next day to Anthony as they returned to Greenwich by barge.〔(Strype, John, ''Ecclesiastical Memoirs'', vol. 1 part 2, Oxford (1822) ), 456-458.〕 He was returned as knight of the shire for Surrey in 1539 and was then re-elected in 1542, 1545, and 1547. Sometime after 1540, he married Elizabeth Fitzgerald, daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, his wife Alice having died. They had two children who died young. Elizabeth was one of the great beauties of the Court, known as " the fair Geraldine". After his death she remarried Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln. As a conservative, he had to be careful not to be brought down by factional politics at the court of Henry VIII. He became so trusted by Henry that in the King's latter years, Browne held a dry stamp of the King's signature, to use for minor letters. By 1547, he was Keeper of Oatlands Palace. He died on 6 May 1548 at Byfleet, Surrey, and was buried at Battle in a tomb with his first wife. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Anthony. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony Browne (died 1548)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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