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NameSir Robert Brudenhall 
[56, Northants of 1681, pub Harleian 1935, Brudenell p. 30], [54, His own article], [56, Leics of 1619, pub Harleian 1870, Brudenell, p. 143], [97, Brudenell pedigree, Vol II, p. 447], [69, Table, after Appendix II]
[56, Northants of 1681, pub Harleian 1935, Brudenell p. 30], [54, His own article], [56, Leics of 1619, pub Harleian 1870, Brudenell, p. 143], [97, Brudenell pedigree, Vol II, p. 447], [69, Table, after Appendix II]Birth1461
Death30 Jan 1531
BurialDene church, Northants
General1st s. Chief judge of Common Pleas. Of Raans and Coleshill, Bucks.
FatherEdmund Brudenhall (-1461)
MotherPhilippa Englefield (-<1469)
Notes for Sir Robert Brudenhall
m. (1) Margaret Entwissel, (2) Philippa Power (DNB: latter no children).
He and Margaret had at least one other child, Antony of Graythorne, Northants, see Leics vis'n of 1619, pub Harleian 1870, Brudenell, p. 143.
Lipscomb Vol II, p. 447 shows children to both Margaret and Philippa Power and says the earls came from Philippa, though also says that Philippa ob.s.p.. The Northants visitation agrees with DNB that Margaret was the mother.
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He and Margaret had at least one other child, Antony of Graythorne, Northants, see Leics vis'n of 1619, pub Harleian 1870, Brudenell, p. 143.
Lipscomb Vol II, p. 447 shows children to both Margaret and Philippa Power and says the earls came from Philippa, though also says that Philippa ob.s.p.. The Northants visitation agrees with DNB that Margaret was the mother.
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DNB Main notes for Sir Robert Brudenhall
Brudenell, Robert 1461-1531
Name: Brudenell, Robert
Dates: 1461-1531
Active Date: 1501
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law
Occupation: Judge
Place of
Education: Cambridge
Burial: The church of Dene in Northamptonshire
Spouse: Margaret, widow of William Wyville, Philippa Powre
Likenesses: 1..., 2...
Sources: Foss's Lives of the Judges; Dugdale's Origines, 113;...
Contributor: J. A. H. [John Andrew Hamilton]
Article
Brudenell, Robert 1461-1531, judge, was descended from William Brudenell, who was settled at Dodington and Adderbury in Oxfordshire, and Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, in the reign of Henry III, and from an Edmund Brudenell who was attorney-general to Richard II. Robert, born in 1461, was the second son of Edmund Brudenell of Agmondesham, Buckinghamshire, by his second wife, Philippa, daughter of Philip Englefield of Englefield and Finchingfield in Essex, who brought him considerable property in Buckinghamshire. Robert was educated at Cambridge and ‘bred to the law,’ and, though his name occurs in the year-books as arguing at the bar no earlier than Hilary term 1490, he was in the commission of oyer and terminer for Buckingham in 1489. He sat in parliament in 1503, and was one of the commissioners for Leicestershire for raising the subsidy granted by parliament in that year. In Michaelmas term 1504 (not 1505, as Dugdale has it in the ‘Chronica Series’) he, with nine others, was raised to the rank of serjeant-at-law, and the new serjeants held their inaugural feast at Lambeth Palace. On 25 Oct. of the year following he was appointed king's serjeant, and on the death of Sir Robert Read he, on 28 April 1507, was made a justice of the king's bench. On the accession of King Henry VIII Brudenell was transferred to the court of common pleas, in which court he sat as a puisne judge for twelve years. In 1515 he was a commissioner of sewers for Norfolk, Cambridge, and Leicestershire. On 13 April 1521 he was appointed chief justice of the common pleas, and held this office till he died. On being appointed to the chief justiceship he revisited Cambridge, and the university, with which he seems to have maintained his connection, made him a present. On another occasion it presented him and his wife with a pair of gloves. In 1529 he was appointed a commissioner to survey the castles, forests, and other possessions in Leicestershire belonging to the duchy of Lancaster, and to inquire into encroachments. He died 30 Jan. 1531, and was buried in the south aisle of the church of Dene in Northamptonshire, in an alabaster tomb between his two wives. There is a full-length effigy of him in his judge's robes with the inscription: ‘Of your charity pray for the souls of Sir Robert Brudenell, knight, late chief justice of the king's common bench, at Westminster, and of Margaret and Philippa his wives.’ He was of a literary turn, contributing among other pieces a description of Stanton to Leland (Itin. i. 13, 15, 18, 84, 85, 89, viii. 110). In the course of his life he acquired very considerable estates, chiefly in Leicestershire, with which he was connected as early as 1503, and founded a chantry at Billisden in 1511, and also elsewhere. His land in Leicestershire was situated at Stanton Wyville, and was acquired through his first wife, Margaret, widow of William Wyville of Stanton, and sister and coheiress of Thomas Entwysell, high sheriff of Lancaster and Warwick in 1483, who, with his wife, Katherine (the heiress of the Wyville family), being childless, aliened the manor to Brudenell. He also, at the end of Henry VII's reign, purchased the lordship of Cranoe in the same county from John Cockain. His second wife was Philippa Powre of Bechampton. By his first wife he had issue four sons, Thomas, Anthony, Robert, and Edmund, and a daughter, Lucia; by his second wife none. Of his children only the two eldest had issue, the former founding the family of the Brudenells of Deene, the latter that of the Brudenells of Stanton Wyville or Brudenell. That he had other lands besides those in Leicestershire is plain from the fact that he settled the manor of Deene on his eldest son, upon his marriage in 1520 with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam, and that to his son Anthony he gave the lordship of Glapthorpe in Northamptonshire. His great-grandson was one of the first baronets created, and was made a baron in 1628, and earl of Cardigan in 1661. Among his descendants were George, fourth earl, who was created Duke of Montagu in 1776, a title which expired on his death in 1790 [see Montagu, George Brudenell]; and James Thomas, seventh earl [q.v.]. The Brudenells of Deene became extinct in 1780. The arms of Brudenell were a chevron gules between three morions azure.
Sources
Foss's Lives of the Judges; Dugdale's Origines, 113; Nichols's Leicestershire, ii. 554, 808; Vincent's Visitation of Northamptonshire; Wright's Rutland (Leland), iv. pt. 2, 192; Parl. Rolls, vi. 539; Letters Hen. VIII, Brewer, vol. ii. No. 495; Cooper's Athenæ Cantab. i. 43, 528; Baker's MS. xxiv. 67; Brydges's Northamptonshire, ii. 301; Churton's Lives of Smyth and Sutton, 229, 305, 441; Lipscomb's Buckinghamshire; Campbell's Reign of Henry VII, ii. 479.
Contributor: J. A. H.
published 1886
Name: Brudenell, Robert
Dates: 1461-1531
Active Date: 1501
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law
Occupation: Judge
Place of
Education: Cambridge
Burial: The church of Dene in Northamptonshire
Spouse: Margaret, widow of William Wyville, Philippa Powre
Likenesses: 1..., 2...
Sources: Foss's Lives of the Judges; Dugdale's Origines, 113;...
Contributor: J. A. H. [John Andrew Hamilton]
Article
Brudenell, Robert 1461-1531, judge, was descended from William Brudenell, who was settled at Dodington and Adderbury in Oxfordshire, and Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, in the reign of Henry III, and from an Edmund Brudenell who was attorney-general to Richard II. Robert, born in 1461, was the second son of Edmund Brudenell of Agmondesham, Buckinghamshire, by his second wife, Philippa, daughter of Philip Englefield of Englefield and Finchingfield in Essex, who brought him considerable property in Buckinghamshire. Robert was educated at Cambridge and ‘bred to the law,’ and, though his name occurs in the year-books as arguing at the bar no earlier than Hilary term 1490, he was in the commission of oyer and terminer for Buckingham in 1489. He sat in parliament in 1503, and was one of the commissioners for Leicestershire for raising the subsidy granted by parliament in that year. In Michaelmas term 1504 (not 1505, as Dugdale has it in the ‘Chronica Series’) he, with nine others, was raised to the rank of serjeant-at-law, and the new serjeants held their inaugural feast at Lambeth Palace. On 25 Oct. of the year following he was appointed king's serjeant, and on the death of Sir Robert Read he, on 28 April 1507, was made a justice of the king's bench. On the accession of King Henry VIII Brudenell was transferred to the court of common pleas, in which court he sat as a puisne judge for twelve years. In 1515 he was a commissioner of sewers for Norfolk, Cambridge, and Leicestershire. On 13 April 1521 he was appointed chief justice of the common pleas, and held this office till he died. On being appointed to the chief justiceship he revisited Cambridge, and the university, with which he seems to have maintained his connection, made him a present. On another occasion it presented him and his wife with a pair of gloves. In 1529 he was appointed a commissioner to survey the castles, forests, and other possessions in Leicestershire belonging to the duchy of Lancaster, and to inquire into encroachments. He died 30 Jan. 1531, and was buried in the south aisle of the church of Dene in Northamptonshire, in an alabaster tomb between his two wives. There is a full-length effigy of him in his judge's robes with the inscription: ‘Of your charity pray for the souls of Sir Robert Brudenell, knight, late chief justice of the king's common bench, at Westminster, and of Margaret and Philippa his wives.’ He was of a literary turn, contributing among other pieces a description of Stanton to Leland (Itin. i. 13, 15, 18, 84, 85, 89, viii. 110). In the course of his life he acquired very considerable estates, chiefly in Leicestershire, with which he was connected as early as 1503, and founded a chantry at Billisden in 1511, and also elsewhere. His land in Leicestershire was situated at Stanton Wyville, and was acquired through his first wife, Margaret, widow of William Wyville of Stanton, and sister and coheiress of Thomas Entwysell, high sheriff of Lancaster and Warwick in 1483, who, with his wife, Katherine (the heiress of the Wyville family), being childless, aliened the manor to Brudenell. He also, at the end of Henry VII's reign, purchased the lordship of Cranoe in the same county from John Cockain. His second wife was Philippa Powre of Bechampton. By his first wife he had issue four sons, Thomas, Anthony, Robert, and Edmund, and a daughter, Lucia; by his second wife none. Of his children only the two eldest had issue, the former founding the family of the Brudenells of Deene, the latter that of the Brudenells of Stanton Wyville or Brudenell. That he had other lands besides those in Leicestershire is plain from the fact that he settled the manor of Deene on his eldest son, upon his marriage in 1520 with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam, and that to his son Anthony he gave the lordship of Glapthorpe in Northamptonshire. His great-grandson was one of the first baronets created, and was made a baron in 1628, and earl of Cardigan in 1661. Among his descendants were George, fourth earl, who was created Duke of Montagu in 1776, a title which expired on his death in 1790 [see Montagu, George Brudenell]; and James Thomas, seventh earl [q.v.]. The Brudenells of Deene became extinct in 1780. The arms of Brudenell were a chevron gules between three morions azure.
Sources
Foss's Lives of the Judges; Dugdale's Origines, 113; Nichols's Leicestershire, ii. 554, 808; Vincent's Visitation of Northamptonshire; Wright's Rutland (Leland), iv. pt. 2, 192; Parl. Rolls, vi. 539; Letters Hen. VIII, Brewer, vol. ii. No. 495; Cooper's Athenæ Cantab. i. 43, 528; Baker's MS. xxiv. 67; Brydges's Northamptonshire, ii. 301; Churton's Lives of Smyth and Sutton, 229, 305, 441; Lipscomb's Buckinghamshire; Campbell's Reign of Henry VII, ii. 479.
Contributor: J. A. H.
published 1886