Family
Thomas was born in 1402. He was the son and heir of Robert Browne and a nephew of Stephen Browne MP. Thomas Browne married Eleanor daughter and coheir of Thomas Fitzalan (third son of Lord Maltravers) in 1434. Eleanor later remarried, to Sir Thomas Vaughan in 1461. Thomas had seven sons and several daughters:
- Sir George Browne, Knt, was M.P. Surrey. Knighted after the Battle of Tewkesbury, but attainted as a rebel and beheaded by Richard III of England in 1483. His estates were confiscated, but were afterwards restored to his heirs in 1485 by Henry VII.
- Thomas Browne.
- Robert Browne of Chilham, Kent, married Anne.
- Sir Anthony Browne; Standard bearer for England.
- William Browne (of Tavistock, Devon).
- Leonard Browne.
- Edward Browne.
- Katherine Browne, married Humphrey Sackville of Buckhurst, Sussex (1426 – 24 January 1488).
- Jane Browne.
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