Catherine (Clifford) Brugge (1410 - 1466)

Born 1410 in Frampton On Severn, Gloucestershire, England

Wife of Giles Brugge — married 1421 in Frampton On Severn, Gloucestershire, England

Descendants

Died 1466 at about age 56 in England

Biography

Catherine was born in 1410. Catherine Clifford ... She passed away in 1466. ^[1]

Sir Gyles Bruges, was seated at Coberley, co. Gloucester, and in the 7th Henry V. (1419) was amongst the persons of note of that county who had command to serve the king in person for the security of the realm, all those then required so to do being such (as the words of the writ impart) as did bear ancient arms by descent from their ancestors. In 1429, he was sheriff of Gloucestershire, and again in 1453. In the next year, Sir Gyles Bruges and William Whittington were returned members of parliament for that shire. He married Catherine, daughter of James Clifford, Esq. of Frampton, co. Gloucester, and widow of Anselm Guise, Esp., of Elmore, by whom he had,

Thomas, his successor.

Cicily, who m. 1st, Thomas Gates, Esq.; and 2ndly, John Wellesborne, Esq.

Sir Gyles d. in 1466 and was s. by his son,

Thomas Burges, Esq., of Coberley, who was returned to parliament by the co. of Gloucester in 1459, and by the co. of Hereford in 1472. He married Florence, daughter of William Darell, Esq., of Littlecot, in Wilts, and had issue,

i. Giles, his successor.

ii. Henry, of Newberry, Berks, who married a daughter of John Hungerford, Esq., and had a daughter married to Gifford, of Itchel House, Hants, and a son and heir,

Sir Richard Bridges, of Sheffor, Berks, and of Ludgershall, Wilts, K.B., wo married Jane, daughter of Sir William Spencer of Wormleighton, ancestor to the Duke of Marlborough, and had issue,

1 Anthony, of Great Shefford, whose heiress, Eleanor carried that estate to Sir George Browne, of the Montague family, by who she had no issue.

2 Edmund of Bradley, co. Somerset.

i. Elizabeth, married to William Cassey, Esq., and subsequently to Walter Rowden, Esq.

ii. Elice, married to Thomas Chicheley, of Wimpole, co. Cambridge

iii. Eleanor, married to Sir Thomas Pauncefoot, Knt.^[2]

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Sources

A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct, By Sir Bernard Burke

• Visitation of Gloucestershire Page 236: Brydges

Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by Jonathon Dale Walter Myers, Jul 2, 2013
2. ↑ A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct, By Sir Bernard Burke, p. 83. entered 2013 Dec 01 by Michelle

Acknowledgments

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