Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke

Chest tomb c.1530 presumbed to be that of Robert Willougby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke, north transept, St.Andrew's Church, Bere Ferrers, Devon. Viewed from SW

Drawing of Willoughby tomb at Bere Ferrers, viewed from NW, by Roscoe Gibbs, 19th.c. The tomb is of purbeck marble, the cover stone is plain but is indented in a channel around the top edge where formerly existed a brass inscribed ledger line. The flat escutcheons on the chest, encircled by classical wreaths and separated by renaissance grotto-esque candelabra-like standards, are now devoid of their original heraldic charges, thought to have been engraved on brasss affixed thereon.

Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke, de jure 10th Baron Latimer, KB (1472–1521), 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke and de jure 10th Baron Latimer.

Robert Willoughby was born at Brooke (or Broke), near Westbury, Wiltshire, the son of Sir Robert Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby de Broke (c.1452-1502) and Blanche Champernowne. He married firstly c.1468 Elizabeth Beauchamp, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp of Powick, and secondly c. 1509 Lady Dorothy Grey, daughter of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset and Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington. By his first wife he had one son, Edward (died 1517) and by the second wife 6 children, including daughters Elizabeth, who married John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester, and Anne, who married Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy.

He was knighted before 1504. He served in the army in France in 1513, and was apparently to be present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in June 1520.

He inherited the title 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke and 10th Baron Latimer on the death of his father in 1502. On his death on 10 November 1521 at Bere Ferrers in Devon the title went into abeyance. His widow was remarried, before 29 July 1523, as the fourth wife of William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy.

Sources

• Rogers, W.H. Hamilton, The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, Exeter, 1877, pp. 346–7 & Appendix 3, pedigree of Willoughby de Broke.
• Rogers, W.H. Hamilton, The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West, Exeter, 1890, pp. 1–36, Willoughby de Broke
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Thepeerage

External links

• Biography of Robert Willoughby
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References

Peerage of England
Preceded by Robert Willoughby	Baron Willoughby de Broke 1502-1521	Succeeded by Elizabeth Verney nee Willoughby