BRYDGES, Thomas (c.1427-93), of Coberley, Glos.

Family and Education

b. c.1427, C140/23/15. s. and h. of Giles Brydges*. CFR, xx. 244. ?; educ. adm. L. Inn 13 Dec. 1450. L. Inn Adm. i. 11. The person in question is simply referred to as ‘Brigges’, presumably the ‘Brigge’ pardoned all vacations in 1454-5 (L. Inn Black Bks. i. 25). Readings and Moots, i. (Selden Soc. lxxi), p. xxxix, makes the unsupported assumption that this was Thomas of Coberley. m. by Feb. 1453, CAD, i. C744. Florence, da. of William Darell*, at least 2s. inc. Henry†, ?1da. Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 233, 236, 257-8; Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. vii. 303; lxxi. 136; The Commons 1509-58, i. 531-3. According to visitation evidence, the MP had a daughter Eleanor who married (as his third wife) Thomas Pauncefoot*, but possibly the visitations confused Pauncefoot with his grandson John Pauncefoot, who appears to have married Eleanor the daughter of Sir Giles Brydges (d.1511): J. Duncumb, Hist. Herefs. (continued by Cooke), ii (1), 99.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Glos. 1467, 1478.

Escheator, Glos. 6 Nov. 1454 – 3 Nov. 1455.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Gloucester castle Feb. 1467, Aug. 1472, C66/518, m. 11d; 529, m. 1d. Gloucester June 1467; array, Glos. June 1470, May, Dec. 1484, Dec. 1488; inquiry July 1474 (complaint of Reynold Mille); to assess subsidies, Worcs. Apr. 1483.

?J.p. Glos. 24 Feb. 1473 (q.)-May 1474, 5 Mar. 1484-Oct. 1485. Not only is the identity of the j.p. unclear, it is also possible that two men are conflated here.

Parlimentarian

BRYDGES, Thomas (c.1427-93), of Coberley, Glos.

Main residence: Coberley, Glos.

a Bruggys, Brigge, Brugge, Brygge

Author

C.E.M.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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