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SUDELEY. 297 Treasurer. 1441*47 : Joint Guv. of Calais, 1450-P5, being a zealous adherent of the House at Laneister. He rebuilt, in most stately style, the Castle of Sudeley.C) which, a few years after the succession of the Duke of York, he was forced to alienate with nil its laudato Ell. IV. ( L ) He »i. firstly Elizabeth, da. of Sir John NoKBURY, I,. Treasurer (1399-1403). He pi. secondly Alice, He jure apparently, suo jme BaHonkss |)i incoi iit, widow of William (LOVKL), LoltD I.OVKI. Dg TlcBMEItSH, da. of John (l)KlsioriiT), bllHC DkimiiI'HT, by .Johanna, apparently da. ami h. of Hohert (l>K QBBV!, 4th laiHU (Iuev UK liOTHKUHKi.u. He d. S.p.m.8.(°l •> May (1473) 13 Ed, IV., when the Bar«ny by patent of 1 HI, became extinct, but the right to the Barony, cr. bil irril of 1299, fell into aUi/ancc.^ 1 ) His second wife, bj whom he had no issue, survived biui. See "Kk>moUR of Sudeley, co. Gloucester," Barony (Seymour), cr. 1547 ; ex. 1 541). § Chandos of StJDBLEV, co, Gloucester," Barony (Brydget), cr. 1E.-.4 ; ex., with the Dukedom of Chandos, 17S9. See "Rivers of Scplky [»>., Smlelev] Castle, co. Gloucester," Barony I Hirer,), cr. 1802; ex. 1SS0. SUDELEY OF TODDINGTON. Barony. /, CnAllI.Etf HaXBURY-Tracy, fomi-rl ij 1 1 AN JiURY, (A 1 l*oS Toddingtou. co. Gloucester, 3d s. of John Hanbfuy, of I'ontypool park, co. .Monmouth, by Jane, da. of Morgan Lewis, of St. Pierre, iu that co. ; was li. 28 lie ■. 1778, at I'ontypool park nfsd : ed. at Kugby ; hiek by royal lie, 10 Dec. 1798, the name of Tracy, after that of Banbury, and in. (nine days later/ 29 Dec. 179S, at St. Maryleboiie, Henrietta Susanna, da. and I), of Henry (Thacy I, 8th Viscount Tbacy of Kathxoole [1.], by Susanna, da. of Anthony ( a ) It was said to have been built out of the spoils he got from the French : one of its towers was called l'ort-mer, Fuller speaks of it as " of subjects' castles the most handsome habitation, and of subjects' habitations the strongest castle." It was probably its grandeur that excited the covetousness of the King, or of some of his courtiers. The old Lord is reported [see " Dugdale "] to have said " Sudeley Castle, thou art the traytor, not I." ( b ) Edward VI, granted it to his uncle, Thomas Seymour, cr. Baron Seymour of Sudeley, after whose forfeiture it was granted by Queen Mary to Sir John Iirydges, CT. Baron Chandos of .Sudeley, whose descendant, the 6th Baron, left it on his death in Feb. 1654/5, to his widow, Jane, who left it to her 3d and last husband. George Pitt, ancestor of the Barons liivcrs of Sudley Castle. The 2d Lord sold, in 1S14, the Castle and 6*2 acres to the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (a descendant of the Karons Chandos of Sudeley), who sold it in 18o6 to two brothers, named John and William Dent. who. six years previously (iu 1880) had bought the rest and principal part of the estate from the then Barou Llivers of Sudeley. By the family of Dent the Ca-tle has been restored to its former state and its history entitled "Annals vf Windicumbe and Sndttey." has been published in 1877. by Emma Dent. (*) He had two sons (1) Ralph, who d. young ; (2) Sir Thomas Botelfcr. who <f. v.p. "ad s p., having m. Eleanor, da. of the famous John (Talbot). 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. This Uidy Eleanor Boteler, who tf, about 1-468 jEsch. 8 Ed. IV.), is the person said to have been married (or contracted) to Ed. IV. piaking thereby void his marriage (in Wide time) with Elizabeth Wydville. ( d ; The coheirs were his two nephews, viz., (1) Sir John Norbury, then aged 30, «• and h. ( ,f Sir Henry Nurbnry, by Elizabeth, his elder sister ; (2) William Belknap, then aged 4^ P . a ,„i 'i,. „{ Hamuli Belknap, by Joaue, the younger sister. The said Klizabeth m. secondly Sir John Montgomery, " by whom she had several children, hut her issue by Norbury is expanded into so many branches as almost to preclude all probability of extinction." [F. Tc-WDSeud, as on p. 296, note " e,' ]