Family of Francis * RUSSELL and Bridget HUSSEY

Husband:	Francis * RUSSELL (1527-1585)
Wife:	Bridget HUSSEY (c. 1530- )

Husband: Francis * RUSSELL

Wife: Bridget HUSSEY

Name:	Bridget HUSSEY
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1530 (est)

Note on Husband: Francis * RUSSELL

he Earl of Bedford Spouse(s)Margaret St JohnBridget HusseyFather John RussellMother Anne SapcoteBorn c. 1527Died 28 July 1585

 

Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, KG (c. 1527 – 28 July 1585) was an English nobleman, soldier and politician and godfather to Francis Drake.

Contents

 

1 Life

1.1 Early life

1.2 Elizabeth

2 Marriage and issue

3 See also

4 References

 

Life Ea rly life

 

Francis was the son of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford and Anne Sapcote. He was educated at King's Hall, Cambridge and accompanied his father, to sit in the House of Commons. He represented Buckinghamshire in parliament in 1545-47 and 1547-52. In 1547 he was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. He assisted to quell the rising in Devonshire in 1549, and after his father had been created Earl of Bedford in January 1550, was known as Lord Russell, taking his seat in the House of Lords under this title in 1552.

 

Russell was in sympathy with the reformers, whose opinions he shared, and was in communication with Sir Thomas Wyatt; and in consequence of his religious attitude was imprisoned during the earlier part of Mary's reign. Being released he visited Italy, came into touch with foreign reformers. He led the English contingent fighting for Philip II of Spain, then England's King Consort, at the Battle of St. Quentin in 1557.

Eliza beth

 

When Elizabeth ascended the throne in November 1558 the Earl of Bedford, as Russell had been since 1555, became an active figure in public life. He was made a privy councillor, and was sent on diplomatic errands to Charles IX of France and Mary, Queen of Scots.

 

From February 1564 to October 1567 he was governor of Berwick and warden of the east marches of Scotland, in which capacity he conducted various negotiations between Elizabeth and Mary. Bedford represented Elizabeth as her ambassador at the baptism of Prince James on 17 December 1566 at Stirling Castle, and was guest of honour at the subsequent banquet and masque. He appears to have been an efficient warden, but was irritated by the vacillating and tortuous conduct of the English queen. When the northern insurrection broke out in 1569, Bedford was sent into Wales, and he sat in judgment upon the Duke of Norfolk in 1572.

 

In 1576 he was president of the council of Wales, and in 1581 was one of the commissioners deputed to arrange a marriage between Elizabeth and François, Duke of Anjou. Bedford, who was made a Knight of the Garter in 1564, appears to have been a generous and popular man, and died in London. He was buried at the family chapel next to Chenies Manor House, the family estate which he had made his principal home and where he had entertained Queen Elizabeth in 1570.

Marriage and issue

 

His first wife was Margaret St John (Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, 1533 - 27 August 1562), daughter of Sir John St John (great-grandson of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso) and Margaret Walgrave, by whom he had four sons and three daughters:

 

Anne Russell (1548–1603), married Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick

Edward Russell, Baron Russell (1551–1572), married Jane Sybilla Morrison of Cashiobury, without issue

John Russell, Baron Russell (c.1553–1584), married Elizabeth Cooke, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke and Anne FitzWilliam. They had one son, Francis (died young), and two daughters which included Hon. Anne, Countess of Worcester, wife of the 1st Marquess of Worcester.[1]

Francis Russell, Baron Russell (c.1554 – 27 July 1585), married Juliana Foster and had issue, including Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford, and Mary Ann Russell, wife of John Roote, and had issue

William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (c.1557–1613)

Elizabeth Russell (d. 1605), married William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath

Margaret Russell (1560–1616), married George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland.

 

His second wife was Bridget (d. 1601), daughter of John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford, twice widowed. He was succeeded as third Earl by his grandson, Edward (1572–1627), only son of Francis, Lord Russell (c. 1550–1585).

See also

 

Chenies Manor House

Refe rences

 

^ David Nash Ford. Royal Berkshire History, Nash Ford Publishing, 2001. Elizabeth Cooke

 

tudorplace.com.ar Accessed 27 October 2007

thepeerage.com Accessed 27 October 2007

Richardson, Douglas, Kimball G. Everingham, and David Faris. Plantagenet Ancestry A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Royal ancestry series. Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Pub. Co, 2004. Accessed 28 October 2007

 

Political offices Preceded bySir Francis Bryan Custos Rotulorum of Buckinghamshirebef. 1547–c.1578Succeeded by Lord Grey de Wilton Preceded by The Earl of Bedford Lord Warden of the Stannaries1553–1580Succ eeded bySir Walter Raleigh Preceded byUnknown Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall1584–1585Succee ded by Sir Francis GodolphinSir William MohunPeter EdgcumbeRichard CarewV acant

Title last held by

The 2nd Earl of Bath Lord Lieutenant of Devon1584–1585Succeeded by The 3rd Earl of Bath Preceded byUnknown Lord Lieutenant of Dorset1584–1585Succeede d by The Marquess of Winchester Legal offices Preceded by The Earl of Sussex Justice in Eyresouth of the Trent1584–1585Succeeded by The Earl of Leicester Peerage of England Preceded by John Russell Earl of Bedford1555–1585Succeed ed by Edward Russell Baron Russell( writ in acceleration)(descended by acceleration)1553–1581 Succeeded by John Russell Preceded by John Russell Baron Russell1584–1585Succeed ed by Edward Russell

 

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Knight of the Garter, Knight of Chenies, Buckinghamshire and Russell Bedford House, the Strand, Middlesex. Governor of Berwick upon Tweed, Warden of the East Marches, Privy Councillor, Lieutenant of Devon, Dorset and Cornwall. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Knight of the Shire for Buckinghamshire.

 

Son and heir to Sir John Russell, Earl of Bedford and Anne Sapcote, the daughter of Sir Guy.

 

Second husband of Margaret Saint John, daughter of John Saint John and Margaret Waldegrave, widow of William Gostwick. They were married about 1546 and had four sons and three daughters:

Edward, Lord Russell

John, Lord Russell

Sir Francis, Lord Russell

William, Lord Russell of Thornhaugh

Anne, wife of Sir Ambrose Dudley, Ealr of Warwick

Elizabeth, wife of William Bourchier, Earl of Bath

Margaret, wife of George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland

 

He married secondly to Bridget Hussey, daughter of Sir John Hussey and his second wife, Anne Grey, daughter of George, the Earl of Kent. She was also the widow of Sir Richard Morrison of Casiobury who died 20 Mar 1556 and Sir Henry Manners, Earl of Rutland and Lord Ros who had died 17 Sept 1463. They had no issue.

 

Sir Francis was one of the forty knights who became Knights of Bath at the coronation of King Edward VI, 20 Feb 1547. He was summoned to Lords as Baron Russell in 1553 and succeeded as Earl of Bedford 1555.

 

He was Privy Councillor for Queen Elizabeth and entertained her 23 July 1570 at Chenies, and July of 1572 at Woburn Abbey.

 

Sir Francis died at Russell House of Gangrene and was buried with his first wife at Chenies. Bridget was buried at Watford.

Sources

1	"Find a Grave".