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Brydges, John (1491/2 - 1557)

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Other Last Name

Bruges

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1492-03-09
Death Date: 1557-04-12

Notes

Ward of Sir Edward Darrell of Littlecote, Wiltshire

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Grey, Elizabeth ( - 1559)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Union produced five additional sons and two additional daughters

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • 1st Baron Chandos of Sudeley
    Assumed: 1554-04-08
    Vacated: 1557-04-12
  • Knight
    Assumed: 1513-10-13
    Vacated: 1557-04-12

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Commissioner of Musters, Gloucestershire 1522
JP, Gloucestershire 1528
Steward, Gloucestershire 1528
MP, Gloucestershire 1529 1536
JP, Wiltshire 1531 1532
JP, Gloucestershire 1531 1532
Bailiff, Oxfordshire 1536 -6 -10
Bailiff & Ranger, Oxfordshire 1536 -6 -10
Keeper, Oxfordshire 1536 -6 -10 Held jointly
Keeper, Gloucestershire 1536 -6 -10
Keeper & Steward, Oxfordshire 1536 -6 -10 Held jointly with brother Thomas
Steward, Oxfordshire 1536 -6 -10 Held jointly
Steward & Receiver, Oxfordshire 1536 -6 -10 Held jointly
JP, Wiltshire 1536/7
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Gloucestershire 1537
JP, Gloucestershire 1537
Sheriff, Wiltshire 1537 -11 -14 1538 -11 -15
Constable, Gloucestershire 1537/8 -3 -21 1557 -04 -12 Held jointly with son Edmund from 15 Oct. 1542
Commissioner of Musters, Wiltshire 1538/9
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Berkshire 1538/9
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Herefordshire 1538/9
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Oxfordshire 1538/9
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Shropshire 1538/9
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Staffordshire 1538/9
JP, Gloucestershire 1539 1540
JP, Worcestershire 1539/40
JP, Staffordshire 1539/40
JP, Shropshire 1539/40
JP, Berkshire 1539/40
JP, Oxfordshire 1539/40
JP, Herefordshire 1539/40
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Gloucestershire 1540
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Shropshire 1540/1
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Staffordshire 1540/1
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Oxfordshire 1540/1
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Herefordshire 1540/1
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Berkshire 1540/1
Commissioner of Musters, Wiltshire 1542
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Herefordshire 1542 1545
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Gloucestershire 1542 1545
JP, Gloucestershire 1542
Steward, Gloucestershire 1542 -10 -15 1557 -04 -12 Held jointly with son Edmund
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Monmouthshire 1543 1545
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Berkshire 1543 1545
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Oxfordshire 1543 1545
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Shropshire 1543 1545
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Staffordshire 1543 1545
JP, Herefordshire 1543 1544
JP, Wiltshire 1543 1544
JP, Gloucestershire 1544 1545
Lieut, France 1544 -9
High Marshall, France 1546
Deputy Governor and Lieut, France 1547 -9 -2 Held office during absence of William, 13th Baron Grey of Wilton
JP, Wiltshire 1547
JP, Gloucestershire 1547
Sheriff, Gloucestershire 1549 -11 -12 1550 -11 -11
Lieut, London 1553 -8 1554 -06
JP, Wiltshire 1553/4
JP, Gloucestershire 1553/4

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Coberley Manor, Gloucestershire
    Acquired: 1511-12
    Divested: 1557-04
    Patrimony
  • Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1554
    Divested: 1557-04
    Granted by Queen Mary

Lands

  • Gloucestershire: Haresfield
    Acquired: 1511-12-01
    Divested: 1557-04-12
    Patrimony; owned part of the manor
  • Herefordshire: Haresfield Manor
    Acquired: 1516
    Patrimony.
  • Wiltshire: Blunsdon Manor; Blunsdon St Andrew, Broad Blunsdon, Lydiard Millicent, Moredon, Sevenhampton & Widhill
    Acquired: 1542
    Granted
  • Wiltshire: Norton Manor
    Acquired: 1547
    Granted

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Booth Hall, Shrewsbury, Shropshire Sir John Brydges' Interluders
Performance - Boothall, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Sir John Brydges' Trumpeter

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir John Brydges' Trumpeter Brydges, John (1492 - 1557) Musicians 1
Sir John Brydges' Interluders Brydges, John (1492 - 1557) Players 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Sudeley Castle Gloucestershire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

View a list of abbreviations.

  • Bindoff, S.T. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1509–1558. 3 vols. London: Secker & Warburg, 1982
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Doyle, James E. The Official Baronage of England Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885. 3 vols. London: Longmans, 1886
  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.