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Brydges, Edmund (1520 - 1572/3)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1520
Death Date: 1573-03-11 (possibly died 12 March 1572/3)

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Bray, Dorothy (1530 - 1605)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1548
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Union also produced 1 other daughter

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 2nd Baron Chandos of Sudeley

Titles

  • 2nd Baron Chandos of Sudeley
    Assumed: 1557-04-12
    Vacated: 1572/3-03-11
  • Knight Banneret
    Assumed: 1547-09-27
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1572-06-17 (date nominated; installed 17 June 1572)
    Vacated: 1572/3-03-11

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Constable, Gloucestershire 1542 -10 -15 1572/3 -03 -11 Held jointly with father, then solely from 12 April 1557
Steward, Gloucestershire 1542 -10 -15 1572/3 -03 -11 Held jointly with father, then solely from 12 April 1557
MP, Wiltshire 1545 1547
JP, Gloucestershire 1547
MP, Gloucestershire 1553 -10
JP, Gloucestershire 1553/4
JP, Wiltshire 1553/4
Commissioner of Musters, Gloucestershire 1557 1558
Keeper & Steward, Wiltshire 1557 -5 -22 1572/3 -03 -11
Lord Lieut, Gloucestershire 1559 -5 -10
Vice Admiral, Gloucestershire 1561 -7 -22
JP, Wiltshire 1561/2
JP, Gloucestershire 1561/2
Forester & Keeper, Wiltshire 1563 -6 -4
Steward, Gloucestershire 1563 -6 -4
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Berkshire 1563/4
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Gloucestershire 1563/4
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Herefordshire 1563/4
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Oxfordshire 1563/4
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Shropshire 1563/4
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Staffordshire 1563/4
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Worcestershire 1563/4
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Monmouthshire 1563/4
JP, Gloucestershire 1564 1572/3
JP, Wiltshire 1564 1572/3
Steward, Gloucestershire 1567 -10 -25 1572/3 -03 -11
Commissioner of Musters, Gloucestershire 1569 1572/3
Lord Lieut, Gloucestershire 1569 -11 -20

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1557-04
    Divested: 1572/3-03
    Patrimony

Lands

  • Gloucestershire: Abbots of St. Peters Townhouse
    Acquired: 1544
    Granted
  • Gloucestershire: Bourton Haresfield, Stoke Orchard, Sudeley Manors, Prinknash Park
  • Gloucestershire: Guiting & Ashleworth Manors
    Acquired: 1549-08-09
    Granted
  • Wiltshire: St. Andrews Blunsdon, Blunsdon Broad, Haydon, Mintey, Purton, Sevenhampton, & Stratton St. Margaret Manors
    Acquired: 1544
    Via marriage
  • Worcestershire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Shrewsbury (Unknown), Shrewsbury, Shropshire Lord Chandos' Bearward
Performance - The Marsh, Bristol, Bristol (city-county) in Gloucestershire Lord Chandos' Bearward
Performance - Boothall, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Lord Chandos' Players
Performance - Ludlow (Unknown), Ludlow, Shropshire Lord Chandos' Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Chandos' Bearward Brydges, Edmund (1520 - 1573) Performing Animals 1
Lord Chandos' Bearward Brydges, Edmund (1520 - 1573) Performing Animals 1
Lord Chandos' Players Brydges, Edmund (1520 - 1573) Players 1
Lord Chandos' Players Brydges, Edmund (1520 - 1573) Players 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Sudeley Castle Gloucestershire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I [1558–78]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1939--82
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  • Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Honorable the Marquis of Salisbury. 18 vols (24 parts). London: HMSO, 1883--1976
  • 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
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  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.