Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye

Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye (* 1484 in Bedfordshire, † October 18, 1539 ) was an English nobleman, who was appointed in 1529 by Henry VIII as Baron Braye in the House of Lords.

Life

Origin and family environment

Edmund Braye came from an aristocratic English family who has been resident in the county of Bedfordshire in the 15th and 16th centuries came to importance and was sponsored by the House of Tudor. He was probably on a non- traditional date in the middle of the 15th century, born as the son of John Braye, Lord of Eaton Bray in the county of Bedfordshire. He was also the nephew and heir of Sir Reynold Braye (also under the name Reginald Bray known), the reign of King Henry VII became the Treasurer and Knight of the Garter.

Political career

Edmund Braye also served the kings of the House of Tudor, especially Henry VIII. This struck him on October 13, 1513 knighted. From 1514 to 1515 the nunmehrige Sir Edmund Braye was sheriff of the county of Bedfordshire. 1522 made ​​him the king to the sheriff of the counties of Surrey and Sussex. Finally, it made ​​Henry VIII hereditary peer of the kingdom, by calling him by a Writ of Summons on August 9, 1539, the English House of Lords and appointed him in this way for the first Baron Braye. Edmund Braye, the nunmehrige Baron Braye, took his seat in the House of Lords on 4 December 1529 in the meetings he attended regularly until his death in 1539. He died on October 18, 1539 and was buried in Chelsea in the County of Middlesex, where his father and his uncle had been buried. He was with Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Halliwell, married and had with her. Six daughters and one son John, who succeeded him as Baron Braye