Lady Agnes ‘Anne’ Browne

Not the same as Agnes Saunders

Agnes Hussey, daughter of John Hussey and Anne Grey, was born about 1528, probably at Sleaford, Lincolnshire. She was married about 1547 to Humphrey Browne, knight, son of Thomas Browne and Mary Charleton Browne of Langhouse, Essex, according to "Visitation of Kent."

Biography

Anne or Agnes Hussey was a daughter of John Hussey (1464-1536) and his second wife, Anne Grey. John Hussey, chief butler of England, was implicated as complicit in the Pilgrimage of Grace uprising in 1536, found guilty of treason, and beheaded in Lincoln on 29 June 1537. The charges may have been levied in part because of Hussey's Catholic sympathies, and because Hussey and his wife, having served 'Princess' Mary, were partisans on her behalf. Anne Grey has married Sir John Hussey, Baron Sleaford, son of Sir William Hussey, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and Elizabeth Berkeley, after 18 May 1509. She was the daughter of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent – by his second wife, Catherine Herbert. Lady Anne's paternal grandmother was Lady Katherine Percy, the great-great-granddaughter of King Edward III of England, and died between 1 March 1545 and 11 February 1546. When Anne nee Grey Hussey, the second wife of John Hussey wrote her will in 1543, she refers to her two daughters & of the 4 younger daughters of John Hussey, “two are still living.”

After his execution, Hussey's home in Sleaford, as well as his other estates were confiscated by the crown. His children were restored to Parliament in 1563 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, but Hussey's title was forfeited, and the estates were not returned.

Anne or Agnes married (secondly) to Sir Humphrey Browne, Justice of the Common Pleas, as his third wife of Sir Humphrey Browne. She and two of her brothers, Thomas and Gilbert, were named in his 1562 will.

Descendants of the anti-Church of England Lord Hussey, whose barony and estates were forfeited, were left in far less secure positions, both regarding their financial and social status; by 1633, the descendants of Lord Hussey's son, Sir Giles Hussey, had left England to freely practice their non-conformist religion in New England.

Extracted from http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-46-19.pdf

[Humphrey Browne] married thirdly, about 1547, Agnes Hussey (born c.1515), widow of Henry Ryther (1511 – 5 January 1544), esquire, of Harewood Castle, son of Sir Ralph Ryther (d. 2 April 1520) by his second wife, Maud Percy, the daughter of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. For the argument that Maud Percy was the daughter of Henry Percy (c.1449–1489), 4th Earl of Northumberland, by Maud Herbert, see:

< “Who was Maud Percy?” >

For the Ryther family, see Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed., 2011, Vol. III, p. 111, and the pedigree of Ryther of Scarcroft, in Dugdale, William, The Visitation of the County of York, (London: Surtees Society, 1859?), p. 235 at:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=ykNjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA235

The testator’s third wife, Agnes Hussey, was one of the daughters of John Hussey (executed 29 June 1537), 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford, by Anne Grey, the daughter of George Grey (d. 21 December 1503), 2nd Earl of Kent, and his second wife, Katherine Herbert, third daughter of William Herbert (c.1423-1469), 1st Earl of Pembroke, by Anne Devereux, the daughter of Sir Walter Devereux (1411-1459). See the Hussey pedigree in Maddison, A.R., Lincolnshire Pedigrees (London: Harleian Society, 1908), pp. 526-30 at:

https://archive.org/stream/lincolnshirepedi51madd#page/526/mode/2up

There were no issue of Agnes Hussey’s first marriage to Henry Ryther, who made his first cousin, John Ryther, esquire, heir to certain of his properties. For the will, dated 23 January 1543 and proved 18 March 1544, of Henry Ryther, in which he mentions his father, Ralph Ryther, his mother, Maud Percy, and his wife, Agnes Hussey, and bequeaths his lands to ‘John Ryther of London, squire, and cofferer to our Sovereign Lord Prince Edward’, see Testamenta Eboracensia, Vol. VI, (London: Whittaker & Co., 1902), Surtees Society, Vol. CVI, pp. 170-1 at:

https://archive.org/stream/visitationofyork00flow#page/366/mode/2up

For the Ryther family, see also:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/aqwg3252.htm#71027

According to the will below, the testator had three daughters by his third wife, Agnes Hussey:

1. Mary Browne, who is said to have married Thomas Wilford of Hartridge, Kent.
2. Christian Browne, who married, as his second wife, Sir John Tufton (d. 2 April 1624),
3. Katherine Browne the younger (buried 20 February 1616 [=1617?]), … It appears that Katherine Browne’s husband was the grandson of the William Roper (1495x8-1578) who married Margaret More, i.e., William Roper (c.1557-1628), son of Thomas Roper (buried 26 February 1597 [=1598?]), esquire,

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Ann HUSSEY [Parents] 1 was born about 1521 in . She married Humphrey BROWN KNIGHT about 1552.

Other marriages:

• BERKELEY, John
• BROWN, Humphrey

They had the following children:

• F i Mary BROWN was born about 1553.
• F ii Christian BROWNE was born about 1554.
• F iii Catharine BROWN was born about 1557

Born in Lincolnshire, England on 1523 to John Hussey and Anne Grey. Ann married Humphrey Brown and had 3 children. Ann married John Berkeley. She passed away on 1557.

Comments

Date of death 4/12/1615 is a guess! Death field said only "12" while burial date said "4/28/1615", so I assume the next most credible date for which "12" could be a mistake, 1612, is too far away.

References

1. Will of Sir William Hussey, PROB 11/10/592, proved 4 July 1496, National Archives 11 December 2013 < link >
   1. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/JohnHussey(1BSleaford).htm Hussey wrote his will 22 Oct 1535 in which he mentioned that he was "somewhat sick in body". In the will he requested "... to be buried in Sempringham church if I die within seven miles of it...". He gave title to Brigeasterton manor and Rutland manor to his wife; his lands he left intail male to "... Sir William Huse, son and heir apparent; sons, Thomas, Gilbert, Sir Giles; brothers, Sir William and Sir Robert Huse; daughters, Mary and Bridget Huse, each to have 500 marks; Executor, brother, Sir Robert Huse...".
2. Will of Dame Elizabeth Hussey, widow, PROB 11/14/415, proved 11 December 1504, National Archives 11 December 2013 < link >
3. Will of Henry Ryther, 1543. < Archive.Org >
4. Will of Humphrey Browne: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858" The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 46 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 5111 #873953 (accessed 16 October 2022) Will of Humfridi Browne, granted probate on 14 Jan 1562. Died about 1562.
5. T H E H U S S E Y M A N U S C R I P T Page 33 < link > Children born to John Hussey and Anne Grey Hussey include: … Agnes Hussey born about 1528
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hussey,_1st_Baron_Hussey_of_Slea...
   1. Maddison, A.R.; Larken, A.S. (1903). Lincolnshire Pedigrees. Lincolnshire: Ye Wardovr Press. p. 527. OCLC 3978908. hussey sleaford butler. < Archive.Org > (Agnes is not shown)
7. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hussey-188
8. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hussey-2851
   1. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L8S3-C28/lady-mary-ann-%22agn...
   2. https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2080.htm...