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CHARLES BRANDON

Charles Brandon (Duke of Suffolk) was an English nobleman. He was born in 1485 and died in 1545. A son of William-Brandon who had carried Henry VII's standard at Bosworth, Charles Brandon appeared at the court of Henry VIII and in 1513 was marshal of the army that invaded France. In 1514 he was duke of Suffolk. He angered the king by his secret marriage to Henry VIII's sister Mary, the widowed queen of France, but made up with the king and was with him at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In 1523 Charles Brandon led an army to France, and had some part in the overthrow of Wolsey. In 1536 he was sent against the rebels in the north, and received some monastic lands.
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