Dorothy Bray, Baroness Chandos

Dorothy Bray, Baroness Chandos was an English noblewoman, who served as a Maid of Honour to three queens consort of King Henry VIII of England Anne Of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. From 1541 to 1543, she had an affair with the latters brother, William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, whose own wife, Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier had eloped with a lover.

Dorothy was born in about 1524 at Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, the youngest daughter and child of Sir Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye, and Jane Halliwell. She had a brother, John Bray, 2nd Baron Braye, of whom she was one of his coheirs, along with her five older sisters. The eldest, Anne, Baroness Cobham wasyears her senior.

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