Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos (before 1522 – 11 March 1573) was an English peer and politician. He was a

Knight of the Garter The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III of England in 1348. The most senior order of knighthood in the Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, British honours system, it is outranked in ...

, Baron Chandos,

Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Since 1694, all the Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Gloucestershire. * Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos 1559–? * Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Cha ...

and Vice-Admiral of Gloucestershire.

Life

He was the eldest son and heir of

John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos (9 March 1492 – 12 April 1557) was an English courtier, army officer and politician. His last name is also sometimes spelt Brugge or Bruges. He was a prominent figure at the English court during the reigns of ...

of Sudeley Manor, Gloucestershire and Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Edmund Grey, 9th Lord Grey of Wilton. He succeeded to the barony on 12 April 1557 upon the death of his father. He served in the army in France in 1544 and then in Scotland, being knighted in 1547 at the

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. He was elected Member of Parliament for

Wootton Bassett Royal Wootton Bassett , formerly Wootton Bassett, is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 13,570 at the 2021 Census. In the north of the county, it lies to the west of the town of Swindon and northeast of ...

in 1545 and

knight of the shire Knight of the shire () was the formal title for a member of parliament (MP) representing a county constituency in the British House of Commons, from its origins in the medieval Parliament of England until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 ...

for

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in 1553. He was elevated to

in 1572. He was the first husband of Dorothy Bray, who, several years prior to their marriage in 1546, had engaged in a love affair at

court A court is an institution, often a government entity, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between Party (law), parties and Administration of justice, administer justice in Civil law (common law), civil, Criminal law, criminal, an ...

with

William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton William Parr, Marquess of Northampton, Earl of Essex, 1st Baron Parr, 1st Baron Hart (14 August 151328 October 1571), was the only brother of Queen Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII. He was a "sincere, plain, dir ...

. Chandos and Dorothy together had five sons and a daughter. Chandos died in 1573 and was succeeded by his eldest son

Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudeley (c. 1548 – 21 February 1594) was an English courtier in the reign of Elizabeth I. Life He was born at Sudeley Manor, Gloucestershire, the son of Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos and his wife Hon ...

and, after the death of Giles in 1594, by his younger son William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos.

References

* English people of the Rough Wooing Year of birth uncertain 1573 deaths Brydges Knights of the Garter English MPs 1545–1547 English MPs 1553 (Mary I) 16th-century English nobility Ed 2 Lord-lieutenants of Gloucestershire {{England-baron-stub