Italian War of 1542-46 Pilgrimage of Grace 1536 John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos (9 March 1492 – 12 April 1557[1]) was an English courtier, Member of Parliament and later peer.

[2] He was a prominent figure at the English court during the reigns of Kings Henry VIII and Edward VI and of Queen Mary I.

His father was a knight of the body to Henry VII and his brother Thomas Brydges of Cornbury, Oxfordshire also held public office and served as an MP.

Bridges inherited his father's Oxfordshire and Wiltshire estates as a minor in 1511, and was for two years the ward of Sir Edward Darrell.

His election in 1529 as junior knight of the shire for Gloucestershire was a tribute to his standing both locally and at court, but it was doubtless assisted by his influential connections, through his mother with the Baynhams and through his wife with the noble house of Grey of Wilton.