Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln (c. 1523 – 1 Mar 1534) was the youngest child and second son of to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk and Mary (Tudor) Brandon "Dowager Queen of France, Duchess of Suffolk". Brandon was confirmed Earl of Lincoln by Henry VIII on 18 June 1525 at the age of only two. He was so young that Sir John Vere was appointed to carry him during the elaborate ceremony. His father planned a marriage for him with Catherine Willoughby, a peeress in her own right and daughter of Maria de Salinas, who had been one of the queen's ladies-in-waiting. There was a small but real possibility that he would one day become king of England but Brandon died at 11 years of age on 1 Mar 1534 in Southwark, England before this could take place.
Henry and his older brother (1516-1522) are often mistaken to be the same person, because they died as children and had the same name. Nevertheless, Charles Brandon went on to name another son Henry, after this one died in 1534.)
Sources
Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V p. 210
[1]Hall's Chronicle: containing the history of England (Henry IV-Henry VIII), Citation, Edition of 1548, 1550 and 1809, page 703. London. Notes: "...the lorde Henry Brandon, sonne to the duke of Suffolke and the Frenche Quene the kynges sister, a childe of twoo yere old, was greated Erle of Lincolne..."
British History Online [2] Citation Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 7, 1534. Originally published by her Majesty's Stationary Office, London, 1883. Notes: 'Henry VIII: March 1534, 1-5', in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 7, 1534, ed. James Gairdner (London, 1883), pp. 114-126.
[3] Citation [4] News of the Earl's death in 1534 in letter to Lady Dacre from William Lord Dacre in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 7: 1534 (1883). Notes: Please read explanation of disambiguation between Henry Brandon who died in infancy and his brother, Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln.
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