His father had previously been married to Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII.

He and his younger brother were both minors and continued their education by going up to St John's College, Cambridge.

[2] During an epidemic of the sweating sickness, the two youths died, Suffolk first and his younger brother about an hour later.

They died at the Bishop of Lincoln's Palace in the village of Buckden, near Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, where they had fled in an attempt to escape the epidemic.

[4] The humanist intellectuals Thomas Wilson and Walter Haddon wrote a life of Suffolk and his younger brother shortly after their death.