Jane Radcliffe, Viscountess Montague

Jane Radcliffe, Viscountess Montague
Ruins of Cowdray House, Sussex
Spouse(s)	Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague
Issue Anthony Browne Mary Browne
Noble family	Radcliffe (by birth) Browne (by marriage)
Father	Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex
Mother	Margaret Stanley
Born	c.1532
Died	22 July 1552 Cowdray House, Sussex

Jane Browne (née Radcliffe), Viscountess Montague (c.1532 – 22 July 1552) was an English noblewoman.

Family

Jane Radcliffe was one of the two daughters of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, by his second wife, Margaret Stanley, the only daughter^[1] of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby, and Anne Hastings, the daughter of Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings. Jane's sister of the whole blood, Anne Radcliffe, married Thomas Wharton, 2nd Baron Wharton.^[2]

By her father's first marriage to Elizabeth Stafford, the elder daughter of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, by Katherine Woodville, Jane had three half brothers, Henry Radcliffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex, Sir Humphrey Radcliffe (c. 1508/9–13 August 1566), and George Radcliffe.^[3]

By her father's third marriage to Mary Arundell (d. 20 October 1557), Jane had a half brother who died in infancy, and another half brother, Sir John Radcliffe. After her father's death on 27 November 1542, Jane's stepmother, Mary, married, on 19 December 1545, as his second wife, Henry FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel (d. 24 February 1580), and Jane was thus related, through her stepmother's remarriage, to the Earl's three children by his first wife, Henry FitzAlan, Lord Maltravers, Jane FitzAlan, and Mary FitzAlan.^[4]

Marriage and issue

Jane Radcliffe married, as his first wife, Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague (d. 19 October 1592), the eldest of the six sons of Sir Anthony Browne and his first wife, Alice Gage, by whom she had a son and a daughter:^[5]

• Anthony Browne (22 July 1552 – 29 June 1592), who married Mary Dormer, the daughter of Sir William Dormer (d.1575) by his second wife Dorothy Catesby, the daughter of Anthony Catesby, esquire. Anthony Browne predeceased his father by four months, leaving a son, Anthony, who succeeded as 2nd Viscount Montague, as well as another son, John, and three daughters, Dorothy, who married Edmund Lee, esquire, Jane, who married Sir Francis Englefield (c.1561 – 26 October 1631), 1st Baronet Englefield, and Katherine, who married a husband surnamed Throckmorton.^[6] Anthony Browne's widow, Mary Dormer, married secondly, Sir Edmund Uvedale (d. 6 April 1606), and thirdly, Sir Thomas Gerard (d. 16 February 1621), son and heir of Sir Thomas Gerard by Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Port. In her will dated 20 July 1637, Mary Dormer requested that she be buried at Midhurst, Sussex, near her first husband, Anthony Browne.
• Mary Browne (22 July 1552 – 4 November 1607) married (1) Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton (2) Thomas Heneage (3) William Hervey.

After Jane's death, Montague married, before 10 December 1558, Magdalen Dacre (d. 8 April 1608), daughter of William Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre of Gilsland, by Elizabeth Talbot, daughter of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, by whom he had three sons and three daughters.^[7]

Footnotes

1. Margaret had three brothers, John, Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, and Henry.
2. Richardson I 2011, pp. 374–5.
3. Bindoff III 1982, p. 169; Davies 2004; Grummitt 2004.
4. Cokayne 1953, pp. 519–20; Richardson IV 2011, pp. 94–5; Stanton 2004; Grummitt 2004; Bindoff III 1982, p. 170; Lock 2004.
5. Richardson III 2011, pp. 227–9; Questier 2006, pp. 75, 94, 521–2; Cokayne 1900, p. 91.
6. Richardson names only two sons, Anthony and John, and three daughters, Dorothy, Jane, and Katherine; however Questier names a third son, William Browne (d.1637), and states that Katherine Browne married John Tregonwel.
7. Richardson III 2011, p. 228.

References

•  Archbold (1896). "Radcliffe, Robert". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 135.
• Bindoff, S.T. (1982). The House of Commons 1509-1558 III. London: Secker & Warburg.
• Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1900). The Complete Baronetage I. Exeter: William Pollard & Co. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1953). The Complete Peerage edited by Geoffrey H. White. XII (Part I). London: St Catherine Press.
• Davies, Catharine (2004). Radcliffe, Sir Humphrey (1508/9–1566). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 12 November 2012. (subscription required)
• Grummitt, David (2004). Radcliffe, Robert, first earl of Sussex (1482/3–1542). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 11 November 2012. (subscription required)
• Lock, Julian (2004). Fitzalan, Henry, twelfth earl of Arundel (1512–1580). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 12 November 2012. (subscription required)
• Questier, Michael C. (2006). Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966373
• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham III (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 144996639X
• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1460992709
• Stanton, Pamela Y. (2004). Arundell, Mary (married names Mary Radcliffe, countess of Sussex; Mary Fitzalan, countess of Arundel (d. 1557). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 11 November 2012. (subscription required)

External links

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