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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke , known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman....

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

Elizabeth Willoughby, 3rd Baroness Willoughby de Broke

Elizabeth Willouhby, 3rd Baroness Willoughby de Broke, de jure 11th Baroness Latimer was an English noblewoman.Elizabeth Willoughby was born circa 1500, probably at Broke in Wiltshire, the eldest daughter of Edward Willoughby of Milcote and Margaret Neville...

 (died 1560), eldest daughter of Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke

Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke

Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke, de jure 10th Baron Latimer, KB , 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke and de jure 10th Baron Latimer....

, called Lord Broke, the wealthiest heiress of her time. He married in 1553 Anne Neville, the daughter of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland

Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland

Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland KG, PC was an English peer and soldier.-Early life:Ralph Neville was born to Ralph Neville, Lord Neville and Edith Sandys, and was the grandson of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland and Isabel Booth. When his father died in 1498 he took the style of Lord...

, a distant cousin. They had 2 children: Fulke and Margaret.

He was High Sheriff of Warwickshire

High Sheriff of Warwickshire

The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions...

 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

Baron Latimer

The title Baron Latimer or Latymer has been created, by the definitions of modern peerage law, four times in the Peerage of England. Of these, one was restored from abeyance in 1913; one is forfeit; the other two are dormant, although their heir is well known.-Name and title:All of these, and the...

), 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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke , known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman....

. After the murder of his son in 1628, they passed to his daughter Margaret

Margaret Greville, 6th Baroness Willoughby de Broke

Margaret Greville, 6th Baroness Willoughby de Broke and de jure 14th Baroness Latimer was a peeress in the peerage of England....

, who had married Sir Richard Verney.