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lieutenant was not unusual in Tudor times to name a child after a deceased sibling. Brandon was created by Henry VIII on 18 June 1525 at the age of only two. He was "so young that Sir John Vere was appointed to carry him" during the elaborate ceremony.
His father planned a marriage for him with Catherine Willoughby, a peeress in her own right and daughter of Maria de Salinas, who had been one of the queen"s ladies-in-waiting.
Throughout Brandon"s life, there was a small but real possibility that he would one day become king of England. At the time of his birth, Princess Mary was Henry VIII"s only child, and his Queen consort Catherine of Aragon was already past the age of thirty and had little prospect of having any more children.
However he died at the age of ten or eleven. After the death of the Duchess of Suffolk, the Duke married Catherine Willoughby himself.