Edward Verney (aft. 1529 - 1600)

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Sir Edmund Verney was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Sir Edward (or Edmund the Younger) Verney was the son of Elizabeth Bray (b. c. 1513; d. after 1573), and Sir Ralph Verney, of Pendley, co. Hertford, and Middle Claydon, co. Buckingham, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and of Buckinghamshire (d. 1546).

Sir Edward Verney of Pendley married three times to:

1. Frances Fredmayne (widow of Thomas Fredmayne, of North Marston; dsp.), dau. of John Hastings, of Elford,
2. Audrey Carew (widow of Sir Peter Carew; d. 1588), dau. of William Gardner, of Fulmere
3. Mary St Barbe (widow of (1) Geoffrey Turville, and (2) William St Barbe; d. 1642), dau. of John Blakney, of Sparrowham.

Sources

• THE VERNEYS (2007), by Adrian Tinniswood
• Nabil Matar, ‘Verney, Sir Francis (1584–1615)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 27 May 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free of charge to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.
• Braye, Baron (E, 1529) Cracroft's Peerage
• Visitation of Hertfordshire Page 23: Verney