Elizabeth Willoughby, 3rd Baroness Willoughby de Broke, ''de jure'' 11th Baroness Latimer (c.1512 – c. 15 November 1562) was an English noblewoman and wife of Sir Fulke Greville.

Life

Elizabeth Willoughby was the eldest daughter of Edward Willoughby of

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, and

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, and Margaret Neville, daughter of Anne Stafford and

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. Elizabeth's father, Edward Willoughby, died in November 1517, leaving Elizabeth still a minor. Her

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was acquired in 1522 by Sir Edward Greville of Milcote,

. At her grandfather's death on 11 November 1521, the baronies of Willoughby de Broke and Latimer fell into abeyance between his three granddaughters; all daughters of his son Edward; Elizabeth, Anne and Blanche.George E Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant'', Vol. XIII (London: George Bell & Sons, 1898), p. 150, note (h) The barony was settled on Elizabeth after Anne and Blanche died childless. Shortly before 11 April 1526 Sir Edward Greville married his ward Elizabeth to his second son, Sir Fulke Greville (bef. 1505–10 November 1559) of Beauchamps Court,

.David Faris, ''Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists'', Second Edition (Boston: NEHGS, 1999), p. 41 He did so because Elizabeth preferred Fulk over his older brother

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. A manuscript dated 1644 entitled ''The Genealogie, Life and Death of Robert, Lord Brooke'', then in the possession of the Earl of Warwick, describes their courtship: In 1542/3 Elizabeth's husband, Fulke Greville, was knighted by Henry VIII for military service to the crown. He was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1543 and a member of Parliament from 1547. He further distinguished himself along with forty men in the suppression of the

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and served in campaigns in 1544 against France. He built his wife and family a new house at Beauchamp's Court with stone reclaimed from Alcester Priory. Fulk died on 10 Nov 1559. Elizabeth died 9 November 1562 and was buried beside her husband with a

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. At her death, the title passed to her eldest son,

Fulke Greville, 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke Sir Fulke Greville (1536 – 15 November 1606) of Beauchamp Court near Alcester in Warwickshire, was an English gentleman. Origins He was born in 1536, the son of Sir Fulke Greville (d. 10 November 1559) by his wife Elizabeth Willoughby, 3rd Bar ...

Family

Elizabeth Willoughby and Sir Fulke Greville had seven sons and eight daughters among whom were: *

. *Robert Greville *Sir Edward Greville, who married Jane Grey.David Faris, ''Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists'', Second Edition (Boston: NEHGS, 1999), pp. 41, 161 *Mary Greville, who married William Harris. *Eleanor Greville, who married Sir John Conway. *Katherine Greville (d.1611), who married Giles Reade (d.1611), esquire, of

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, by whom she had thirteen children. *Blanche Greville. *Five additional sons *Four other daughters

Ancestry

Notes

References

External links

The Family Forest Descendants of Lady Joan Beaufort by Bruce Harrison
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