Willoughby, Catherine (1519–1580)

The other Duchess of Suffolk (see Frances Brandon, page 344), she married Charles Brandon after the death of his previous wife, Mary Tudor (Henry VIII’s sister). She was one of Kathryn Parr’s inner circle and an evangelical. She went into exile during the reign of Mary Tudor (Henry VIII’s daughter). By that time she had married Richard Bertie, a commoner.

Woodhull, Mary (1528–1548+)

A kinswoman of and chamberer to Queen Kathryn Parr, she was with the queen dowager when she died. She married Davy Seymour, a distant kinsman of the Duke of Somerset.

Wyatt, Thomas the Younger (1521–1554)

The son of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, the poet, and his estranged wife, Elizabeth Brooke (later Lady Warner), he was the only one of the conspirators of 1554 to actually raise troops against Queen Mary. His delay to lay siege to Cowling Castle, for which history has no logical explanation, cost him dearly. By the time he reached Southwark, London Bridge had been dismantled to keep him from entering London. He was captured a few days later and was executed for treason.



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