Brydges, John (DNB00) |←Brydges, James||Dictionary of National
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BRYDGES, Sir JOHN, first Baron Chandos (1490?–1556), eldest son
of Sir Giles Brydges or Brugges (d. 1511) of Coberley,
Gloucestershire, by Isabel Baynham, is stated to have been born
about 1490, but the date was probably earlier. He was descended
from the Giles Bridges who married Alice, the daughter and
coheiress of Sir John Chandos (d. 1430), the last male
representative in the direct line of the ancient Chandos family.
He was knighted in France in 1513; accompanied Henry VIII to
Calais in October 1532, when Henry visited Francis I; was with
Henry VIII at Boulogne in 1533; was appointed constable of
Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, in 1538; attended Henry VIII as
a groom of the privy chamber when the king received Anne of
Cleves in 1539; was at Boulogne in 1544, when he was appointed
deputy-governor of the city; and in 1549 was fighting there
against the French. He was a rigid catholic,