Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos

Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudeley (c. 1548 – 21 February 1594) was an English courtier in the reign of Elizabeth I.

He was born at Sudeley Manor, Gloucestershire,[citation needed] the son of Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos and his wife Hon.

He succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudeley on 11 March 1573 and held the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1586.

[1] According to Joan Barbara Greenbaum Goldsmith's unpublished PhD dissertation, All the Queen's Women: the changing place and perception of aristocratic women in Elizabethan England, 1558-1620, Frances and her husband separated during the 1590s.

She died at Woburn Abbey, home of her daughter Catherine, Countess of Bedford.

Signed and dated portrait of Elizabeth Brydges, aged 14, daughter of the 3rd Baron Chandos and maid of honour to Elizabeth I, 1589.