[1][2][3] His wife was Lady Eleanor Brandon, a niece of King Henry VIII.After her death, he married Anne Dacre.

According to the Third Succession Act of 23 March 1544, Lady Eleanor Brandon was the seventh-in-line to the throne of the Kingdom of England.

Her maternal grandparents were King Henry VII of England and his queen consort, Elizabeth of York.

[1] He was in 1569 strongly opposed to the contemplated marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, and readily promised support to the great rebellion of that year.

[1] As the year wore on he gave in his adherence to the scheme for proclaiming Mary queen of England; but when the critical moment arrived he did not act with vigour, but as a 'crazed man, leaving his tenants to the leadership of Leonard Dacres'.