Sir Fulke Greville

For his son, the poet, see Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Sir Fulke Greville (c. 1526 – 1606) was an English gentleman.

Fulke Greville was born circa 1526 at Broke, Wiltshire, the son of Sir Fulke Greville and Elizabeth Willoughby (died 1560), eldest daughter of Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke, called Lord Broke, the wealthiest heiress of her time. He married in 1553 Anne Neville, the daughter of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland, a distant cousin. They had 2 children: Fulke and Margaret.

He was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1572.

His mother survived her sisters, who had no children; by modern law, this would mean that she would have become Lady Willoughby de Broke (and Lady Latimer), and he would in turn have inherited from her as 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke and 12th Baron Latimer. But the law was established by his great-grandson, the 11th Lord Willoughby, in 1696.

On his death on 15 November 1606 at Beauchamp Court near Alcester, his estate (including any claim to the titles) passed to his eldest son, Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke. After the murder of his son in 1628, they passed to his daughter Margaret, who had married Sir Richard Verney.

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Peerage of England
Preceded by
Elizabeth Greville nee Willoughby
Baron Willoughby de Broke
1560-1606
Succeeded by
Fulke Greville