Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk
Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (English Duke of Suffolk ) ( born September 18, 1535 Barbican; † July 14, 1551 in Buckden ) was an English nobleman and the eldest son of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and his fourth wife, Katherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. About his half-sister Frances Brandon, he was uncle of Queen Jane Grey, the so-called Nine Days Queen.
He is not to be confused with his older half-brother of the same name Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln.
Life
When his father died in 1545, Henry inherited at the age of 9 years the title of Duke of Suffolk. He was a minor, but not the right to attend sittings of Parliament, but took only ceremonial functions. He enlisted in 1547 in the coronation procession of Edward VI. the orb and was admitted along with his younger brother Charles as part of the celebrations as a knight in the Bathorden.
His parents worked hard to provide as much contact between Henry and the only two years younger heir, Edward Tudor, so he was initially together with the young Prince of Wales (later Edward VI. ) Brought up at court. But he soon sat together with his brother his education at St John 's College (Cambridge) continued, as he " wanted to be among scholars ."
When in July 1551 in Cambridge broke the English sweat, Henry and his brother fled after Buckden to escape the epidemic, but the same evening both diseased and Henry died the next day at the age of 15 years. His brother survived him only about an hour.
A contemporary report tells how the boys met a premonition of death: " The older, the evening happily sitting at the table, said [ to his hostess ]: " Oh Lord, where we will eat well tomorrow night, " whereupon she, who got that? yet comfortingly said, "I am sure, my lord, either here or elsewhere in the house of one of your friends." "No, " he replied, " we will never dine again in this world together, you 're sure of it. " and with that, because he saw that the lady was uncomfortable, he made a joke of it and spent the rest of dinner with happiness and in the same night after the twelfth hour, it was the 14th of July, he fell ill and was so the next morning to the fetched seventh hour to God. "
Henry and Charles had been apparently promising students, as Sir Thomas Wilson, her old teacher, wrote after her death, a Latin memorandum for them, Vita et Obitus duorum fratrum Suffolcensium and devoted them a laudatory section in his book The Arte of Rhetorique. He writes about Henry that he was " among his other mental faculties, which exceeded all others and almost unbelievable were " an enthusiastic and talented riders and Tjoster that in the lance passage was " so sent, although only 14 years old, that some soldier today the loss of such a honorable gentleman very much deplored. "
The early death of the brothers from the house of Brandon died in the male line and the title of Duke of Suffolk reverted to the crown. That same year, but the title was Iure uxoris ( by right of his wife ) to Henry Grey, the man of her half-sister, Frances, granted.