John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos
John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos (9 March 1492 – 12 April 1557[1]) was an English Member of Parliament and later peer. His name is also sometimes spelt Brugge or Bruges.[2]
Biography
Brydges was born at Coberley, Gloucestershire,[1] the son of Sir Giles Brydges[3] (c.1462-1511) of Coberley, by his wife Isabel Baynham. He was a prominent figure at the English court during the reigns of Kings Henry VIII and Edward VI and of Queen Mary.[4] Brydges was High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1537,[1] and took part in suppressing the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt in 1554.[3] As Lieutenant of the Tower of London during the earlier part of Queen Mary's reign, he had the custody not only of Lady Jane Grey and of Wyatt, but for a short time of the Queen's half-sister the Lady Elizabeth.[3]
He was created Baron Chandos of Sudeley on 8 April 1554[2] (one of his ancestors, Alice, being a granddaughter of Sir Thomas Chandos (d. 1375)).[3]
Family
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It was around 1512 when Brydges married Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Edmund Grey, 9th Baron Grey de Wilton (died 1511), and Florence Hastings, eldest daughter of Sir Ralph Hastings.[5] They had eleven children. Their son Edmund succeeded to the Chandos barony on his father's death.[4] Their son Charles married Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Carne.[6] Their daughter Katherine married Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley.[7]
Death
He died at Sudeley Castle 12 April 1557,[2] and was buried with heraldic ceremony on 3 May in Sudeley Church.[8] His will, dated 2 March 1556,[1] was proved 28 May 1557.[2][9] In his will, he styles himself as Sir John Bruges, Knight, Lord Chandos of Sudeley.
Notes
- ^ a b c d Kirk & Dale 1982.
- ^ a b c d Cokayne III 1913, p. 126.
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- ^ a b Lee 1886, pp. 163–164.
- ^ Richardson IV 2011, pp. 350–1.
- ^ Cokayne II 1902, p. 15.
- ^ Cokayne IV 1916, pp. 481–482.
- ^ Machyn 1848, pp. 133, 356.
- ^ Public Record Office, prob. 11/30
References
- Cokayne, G. E., ed. (1902). Complete Baronetage. Vol. II:1625-1649. Exeter: Pollard & Co.
- Cokayne, G. E. (1913). Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H. Arthur (eds.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant. Vol. III. London: St. Catherine Press.
- Cokayne, G. E. (1916). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant. Vol. IV. London: St. Catherine Press.
- "John Brydges, (1st B. Chandos of Sudeley)". Tudorplace.com.ar. Retrieved 30 January 2009.[unreliable source]
- Kirk, L. M.; Dale, M. K. (1982). Bindoff, S. T. (ed.). "Members. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558". Historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
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- Attribution
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chandos, Barons and Dukes of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 838. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Bydges, Sir John (1492-1557), of Coberley, Glos. A biography
- Sir John Brydges, 1st Lord Chandos Family tree