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Brandon, Charles, 1st Duke of Suffolk 1484-1545
English soldier and courtier

The son of Henry VII's standard-bearer who was killed at Bosworth (1485), he served as squire to Henry VIII, and was created Duke of Suffolk (1514). The next year he secretly married the King's sister Mary, widow of Louis XII of France, and so was the grandfather of Lady Jane Grey. He commanded the unsuccessful invasion of France (1523) and captured Boulogne (1544).