Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke


Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke KB PC , known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage.

Fulke Greville, bornOctober 1554, at Beauchamp Court, near Alcester, Warwickshire, was the only son of Sir Fulke Greville and Anne Neville , the daughter of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland. He was the grandson of Sir Fulke Greville and Elizabeth Willoughby , eldest daughter of Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke, the only other child of the marriage was a daughter, Margaret Greville , who married Sir Richard Verney. He enrolled at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1568.

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