Background
Edmund Braye was the son of John Braye of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire and the older brother of Sir Edward Braye.
Edmund Braye was the son of John Braye of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire and the older brother of Sir Edward Braye.
He served as High Sheriff of Bedfordshire for 1514 and of Sussex and Surrey in 1522. He was knighted in 1513 and in 1529 he was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Braye, of Eaton Bray in the County of Bedford. He was in attendance on King Henry VIII when he met Francois I on the Field of the Cloth of Gold in June 1520, "one of those nobles who with their pawned manors glistening on their backs followed Henry VIII to the field of the golden folly".
Lord Braye married Jane (died on 24 October 1558), daughter of Sir Richard Halliwell or Hallighwell or Halywell of Holwell by Jane Norbury.
Lady Braye died in 1558.