Family and Education
b. by 1498, 1st s. of John Brandling of Newcastle by Margaret, da. of Robert Heley of Yorks. m. Anne, da. of John Place of Halnaby, Yorks., wid. of John Ifield, 1da. suc. fa. 1522. Kntd. 1 Oct. 1547.Date of birth estimated from first reference, Newcastle Merchant Adventurers, ii (Surtees Soc. ci), 187. Vis. Northumb, ed. Foster, 20; Vis. of the North, i. (Surtees Soc. cxxii), 160-2; Northumb. Co. Hist. xiii. 349; R. Welford, Newcastle and Gateshead, ii. 68.
Offices Held
Sheriff, Newcastle 1524 – 25, mayor 1531–2 or 3, 1536 – 37, 1543 – 44, 1547 – 48, 1564 – 65, alderman by 1539; gov. Newcastle merchant adventurers 1536, 1547, 1564; commr. chantries, Northumb., bpric. of Dur. and Newcastle 1548, relief from aliens, Newcastle 1550, goods of churches and fraternities 1553, reedifying castles and enclosing grounds upon borders 1555; j.p. Northumb. 1558/59–d.
Main residence: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
BRANDLING, Robert (by 1498-1568)
Will
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Oxford 1644
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Religion
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