Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk

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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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