Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos

Who was Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos?

Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudeley was an English courtier in the reign of Elizabeth I.

He was born at Sudeley Manor, 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 Elizabeth at Sudeley Castle in 1592.

He married Lady Frances Clinton, daughter of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln 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 According to Joan Barbara Greenbaum Goldsmith's unpublished PhD dissertation, All the Queen's Women: the changing place and perception of aristocratic women in Elizabethan England, 1558-1620, Frances and her husband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 Woburn Abbey, home of her daughter Catherine, Countess of Bedford.

They had four children of whom only two daughters survived:

Hon. Elizabeth Brydges, Maid of Honour to Elizabeth I, married Sir John Kennedy. She died without issue.