Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudeley (c. 1548 – 21 February 1594) was an English

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in the reign of

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Life

He was born at

Sudeley Manor Sudeley is a civil parish in the district of Tewkesbury, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The parish includes the village of Charlton Abbots. History The parish was formed on 1 April 1935 from the parishes of Charlton Abbots and Su ...

, Gloucestershire, the son of Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos and his wife Hon. Dorothy Bray. Brydges was member of parliament for Cricklade in 1571 and for Gloucestershire from 1572 to 1573. He succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudeley on 11 March 1573 and held the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1586. He entertained Queen

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in 1592.Cokayne, and others, ''The Complete Peerage'', volume III, page 126-7. Chandos died on 21 February 1594 without male issue and was therefore succeeded by his brother

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who became the fourth Baron Chandos of Sudeley. He is buried in the Chapel of St. Mary at

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, England.

Family

He married Lady Frances Clinton (

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, 1553 –

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, 12 September 1623), daughter of

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and his second wife Ursula Stourton before 1573. According to Joan Barbara Greenbaum Goldsmith's unpublished PhD dissertation, ''All the Queen's Women: the changing place and perception of aristocratic women in Elizabethan England, 1558-1620'', Frances and her husband separated during the 1590s. She died at

, home of her daughter Catherine, Countess of Bedford.Kathy Lynn Emerson. ''Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England'', Whitston Publishing Company (June 1984). They had four children of whom only two daughters survived: * Elizabeth Brydges (c. 1578–1617), Maid of Honour to Elizabeth I, married Sir John Kennedy. She died without issue. * Catherine Brydges (c. 1580–1656/7), married

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and had issue. * John Brydges, died young. * Charles Brydges, died young. Portraits of Chandos, his wife, and his daughter Elizabeth by

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are in the collection of the

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.Hearn 1995, p. 114

Notes

References

* Hearn, Karen, ed. ''Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630.'' New York: Rizzoli, 1995. . , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Chandos, Giles Brydges 3rd Baron English courtiers 1540s births 1594 deaths Brydges Lord-lieutenants of Gloucestershire People from Winchcombe English MPs 1571 English MPs 1572–1583 16th-century English nobility Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Cricklade Gi Burials at St Mary's Chapel, Sudeley Castle 3 Court of Elizabeth I