'Charles Brandon, 3rd
Duke of Suffolk' (
1537 – July
1551) was the son of
Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and
Catherine Willoughby.
He died of the
sweating sickness one hour after the same disease claimed his elder brother, and because of this holds the record for the shortest tenure of a British peerage. (
Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp may claim a shorter tenure, but merely through a legal fiction.)
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Miniature by Hans Holbein the Younger