William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (1482–1526), was an English

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and the largest landowner in Lincolnshire. Grimsthorpe Castle - West Facade

He was the son of Sir Christopher Willoughby (died c. 1498) and Margaret or Marjery Jenney (daughter of Sir William Jenney of Knodishall, Suffolk, Justice of the King's Bench). In 1499, he succeeded as

Baron Willoughby de Eresby Baron Willoughby de Eresby ( ) is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1313 for Robert de Willoughby. Since 1983, the title has been held by Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. History The ...

. He married first Mary Hussey (born 1484), youngest child of

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. Secondly, on 5 June 1516, he married

María de Salinas María de Salinas, Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (c. 1490 – 1539) was an English noblewoman and courtier from Spain. She was a confidante and lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England. Family background María was the daughter o ...

, the Spanish-born

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was granted by Henry VIII to the de Eresby family on the occasion of Maria's marriage. By his second wife, Willoughby had a daughter,

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, who succeeded him in the barony on his death in 1526. She was betrothed to

Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln Henry Brandon, Earl of Lincoln (c. before 18 June 1523 – 1 March 1534) was the youngest child and second son born to Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, who was a daughter of Henry VII, King of England. Thus ...

, the son of

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, and Princess Mary, the sister of Henry VIII. When Princess Mary died in 1533, fourteen-year-old Catherine was hastily married to the Duke of Suffolk, her fiancé's father, who was thirty-five years her senior. In 1546, there were rumours that Henry VIII wished to marry the widowed Catherine.

Death

William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, died on 14 October 1526 at

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and was buried on 19 October at All Saints Church,

Mettingham Mettingham is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is east of the market town of Bungay in the East Suffolk district. It had a population of 211 at the 2011 United Kingdom census. The northern boundary ...

, Suffolk.

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Will of Sir William Hussey, PROB 11/10/592, proved 4 July 1496, National Archives
11 December 2013
Will of Dame Elizabeth Hussey, widow, PROB 11/14/415, proved 11 December 1504, National Archives
11 December 2013 1482 births 1526 deaths *11 15th-century English people 16th-century English nobility Willoughby family {{England-baron-stub