![]() ![]() However, his health had been broken by the conditions of his imprisonment, and he died shortly before 3 September 1571. Mary remained in the Duchess's household for almost two years and is said to have been close to the Duchess's two children.Īfter enduring years in the Fleet, Mary's husband Thomas Keyes was released in 1569, and permitted to return to Kent. The Duchess wrote to Cecil expressing shock at the few pitiful household effects with which Mary arrived at her house in the Minories. In August 1567 Mary, still under house arrest, was sent to live with her step-grandmother Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, whom Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, had married after the death of Mary's grandmother Mary Tudor. 1597) at Chequers in Buckinghamshire, where she remained for two years, while Keyes was committed to the Fleet. The Queen confined Mary to house arrest with William Hawtrey (d. Mary and her husband never saw each other again. Having learned from her sister's experience, Mary took the precaution of having three of her cousins attend as witnesses, her childhood friend, Mary Willoughby, now the wife of Sir Matthew Arundell, and two of the daughters of Lady Stafford. Mary secretly married the Queen's serjeant porter, Thomas Keyes, son of Richard Keyes, esquire, of East Greenwich, Kent, by Agnes Saunders, the daughter of Henry Saunders of Ewell, Surrey. Despite the disastrous consequences of her sister Katherine's secret marriage, Mary also now married without the Queen's permission, On 16 July 1565. ![]()
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