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Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu

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Anthony-Maria Browne
Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu from a painting by Isaac Oliver (1598)
Born1574
Died23 October 1629
BuriedMidhurst, Sussex
Noble familyBrowne
Spouse(s)Jane Sackville
IssueFrancis Browne
Anthony Browne
Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu
Mary Browne
Katherine Browne
Mary Browne (again)
Frances Browne
Anne Browne
Lucy Browne
FatherAnthony Browne
MotherMary Dormer

Anthony-Maria Browne (1574 – 23 October 1629) was an English peer during the Tudor and Stuart period.

He was born in 1574, the son of Anthony Browne (22 July 1552 – 29 June 1592),[1] eldest son of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, and Mary Dormer. He became the Second Viscount Montagu at the age of 18 on the death of his grandfather in 1592,[2] from whom he inherited an estate worth between £3600 and £5400 per annum.[3]

Portrait of Anthony Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu by Robert Peake the Elder.
Ruins of Cowdray House

In 1591 Browne married Jane Sackville, daughter of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, and by her had issue:[4]

Anthony-Maria Browne was arrested in connection with the Gunpowder Plot and spent about a year in the Tower of London.

In 1595, he wrote a book on how to manage a nobleman's household entitled "A Booke of Orders and Rules".[5]

He died on 23 October 1629 and is buried in Midhurst Church.

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed., vol. III, pp. 228–9.
  2. ^ Cokayne, G. E. Complete Peerage Reprinted Gloucester 2000 Vol. IX, p. 100
  3. ^ Elzinga 2004; Scott 1854, p. 173.
  4. ^ Questier 2006, p. 522; Richardson I 2011, p. 45; Scott 1854, p. 173.
  5. ^ Scott 1854, p. 173.

References

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  • Elzinga, J.G. (2004). "Browne, Anthony, first Viscount Montagu (1528–1592)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3667. Retrieved 8 December 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
  • John Hutchinson (1902). "Brown, Anthony: second Viscount Montague". A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices: 32. Wikidata Q109375813.
  • 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. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) ISBN 1449966373
  • Scott, Sibbald (1854). Scott, Sibbald David (ed.). "A Booke of Orders and Rules of Anthony Viscount Montague in 1595". Sussex Archaeological Collections. VII. London: John Russell Smith: 173–212. doi:10.5284/1085161.
  • Trull, Mary E. (2013). Performing Privacy and Gender in Early Modern Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Peerage of England
Preceded by Viscount Montagu
1592–1629
Succeeded by