BRANDLING, Sir Robert (c.1490-1568), of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.

Family and Education

b. c. 1490, 1st s. of John Brandling, mayor 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.Vis. of the North, i. (Surtees Soc. cxxii), 160-2; Vis. Northumb. ed. Foster, 20; Northumb. Co. Hist. xiii. 349; M. A. Richardson, Armorial Bearings etc. in the Church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle on Tyne (Newcastle 1820), i. 5.

Offices Held

Sheriff, Newcastle 1524 – 25, mayor 1531–2 or 3, 1536 – 37, 1543 – 44, 1547 – 48, 1564 – 65; gov. Newcastle merchants co. 1536, 1547, 1564.Mackenzie, Newcastle, 614; Arch. Ael. (ser. 4), xviii. 30–3, 35, 40; J. Brand, Hist. Newcastle, 240; R. Welford, Newcastle and Gateshead, ii. 128.

J.p. Northumb. from c. 1559.

Parlimentarian

BRANDLING, Robert (by 1498-1568), of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.

Main residence: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.

Author

R.V.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

BRANDLING, Sir Robert (c.1490-1568)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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