Sir John (Brydges) BRUGES - alderman of London

1510 Mar 19

Bradbury Sir John Brugge (Bruges), Draper Vintry 1510-5. Langbourn 1515-30.

Sheriff 1513-4. Mayor 1520-1.

Knighted 1521; M.P. London 1509-10; Auditor 1504-6, 1518-21; Master Drapers 1514-5, 1521-2, 1527-8. Died Oct 1530; Will (PCC 21 Jankyn) 8 Oct; proved 29 Oct 1530.

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His daughter Winifred married Sir Richard Sackville, by whom she was mother of Thomas Sackville, created Earl of Dorset (Lord High Treasurer and joint author of the first English tragedy, Gorboduc).

After Sackville's death she married the old Marquess of Winchester (Lord High Treasurer to three sovereigns), whose first wife had been the daughter of Sir William Capel (Mayor 1503-4, 1510).

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