Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke and ''de jure'' 10th

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, (1472 – 10 November 1521) was an English nobleman and soldier. Robert Willoughby was born about 1470–1472 (aged 30 in 1502, 36 in 1506), the son of Sir

Robert Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby de Broke The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, reno ...

(c. 1452–1502) and Blanche Champernowne. He married firstly before 28 Feb. 1494/95, to Elizabeth Beauchamp, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp of Powick and Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford, of Grafton; secondly, c. 1509, to Lady Dorothy Grey, daughter of

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and Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington. He was knighted before 1504. He served in the army in France in 1513, and was apparently to be present at the

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in June 1520. He inherited the title 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke and 10th Baron Latimer on the death of his father in 1502, will proved. On his death, on 10 November 1521 at

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in Devon the title went into abeyance. His widow, Dorothy, married (2nd) before 29 July 1523 as his fourth wife,

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. By his first wife he had two sons, Edward, Esq. (died 1517) and Sir Anthony, Kt., and by the second wife 6 children, including sons Henry and William, and daughters Elizabeth, who married

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, and Anne, who married

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Family

First marriage of Sir Robert Willoughby, '1st Baron Willoughby de Broke', 28 February 1494/95 to Elizabeth Beauchamp, of Grafton, produced two sons. *Edward Willoughby, Esq., of

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and

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(died November 1517), married Margaret Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer, and Anne Stafford, father of Elizabeth, Anne and Blanche *Sir Anthony Willoughby, Kt. His second marriage to Dorothy Grey, who would become Baroness Mountjoy during her lifetime through her second marriage to William Blount, '4th Baron Mounjoy they had the following children: *Henry Willoughby *William Willoughby *Elizabeth Willoughby, married

* Anne Willoughby, married

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References

* * *Rogers, W.H. Hamilton, The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, Exeter, 1877, pp. 346–7 & Appendix 3, pedigree of Willoughby de Broke. *Rogers, W.H. Hamilton, The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West, Exeter, 1890, pp. 1–36, Willoughby de Broke *
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Robert The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, prais ...

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