Category:Brydges/Brugge family

Members of this noble family held the following titles:

  • Barons Chandos, first creation (1337)
  • Barons Chandos, second creation (1554)
  • Dukes of Chandos (1719)


In 1554, Queen Mary I gave Sudeley Castle to John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos, and it remained his property throughout her reign and the reign of Queen Elizabeth I as well, and then passed down to his descendants.