• General Notes

  The details per Peter Bruges - bruges@@euronet.com.mk
  
  
  George was born in Sudeley Manor 09/08/1620.
  
  His birth parents are identified as:
  father: Grey / Brydges/ {5th Baron Chandos}
  mother: Anne / Stanley/
  
  He married 2 times.
  
  
  
  BIOGRAPHICAL TEXT: He was nominated by Parliament, Lord Lieutenant of co. Gloucester in Feb. 1641/2, but became a zealous royalist, being, later in that year, Col. of a regiment of Dragoons in the King's service. At the first battle of Newbury (20 Sep.1643) he had 3 horses shot under him, and was mainly instrumental in breaking the enemy's cavalry. He is said to have been offered the Earldom of Newbury, but to have declined it until more peaceful times. In 1642, and again in 1644, Sudeley Castle was by the parliamentary forces and reduced to ruins, the owner being in London wher he had given himself up "to the pleasures of that place". His composition, as a delinquent was no less than £3,973. On May 13, 1652, in a duel on Putney Heath, he mortally wounded Col. Henry Compton, and was after a year's imprisonment, found guilty, in the "Upper Bench" of manslaughter. 
  
  He had 6 daughters, 3 by each wife.
  
  George / Brydges/ {6th Baron Chandos} was linked to 6 recorded events during his life.  Of these, one does not have a date and is included as number 1 in the list starting below.
  
  
  1. Burial                     /  /   
  
       His body was interred in Sudeley Manor.  

Details of George's family with Jane Savage