Ancestral Trails 2016 » ANDREW JUDD (1492-1558)

Personal data ANDREW JUDD 

• He was born in the year 1492 in Tonbridge, Hildenborough, Kent.Source 3
• Occupations:
• Leading City Merchant.
• in the year 1544 Sheriff of London in London.
• in the year 1550 Lord Mayor of London in London.
• Lord of the Manor of Ashford, Kent.
• (Alternative Name Spelling) : Judde.
• (Knighthood) in the year 1552: Knighted by Edward VI.
• (Event) May 1553 in Tonbridge, Hildenborough, Kent: Founded Tonbridge School.
• (Apprenticeship) about 1500 in London, Middlesex: Apprenticed to the Company of Skinners.
• He died on September 4, 1558 in Westminster, Middlesex, he was 66 years old.Sources 1, 3
• He is buried on September 14, 1558 in St Helen, Bishopsgate, City of London, Middlesex.Source 1
• A child of JOHN OLIVER JUDD and MARGARET CHICHE

Household of ANDREW JUDD

(1) He had a relationship with MARY MERVYN.

Child(ren):

1. Thomas JUDD  1541-1601
2. Elizabeth JUDD  1529-????
3. Oliver JUDD  1545-????
4. John JUDD  1543-1603
5. Andrew JUDD  1535-< 1539
6. Thomas JUDD  1538-< 1541
7. Andrew JUDD  1539-1599
8. Elizabeth JUDD  1537-????
9. Robert JUDD  > 1528-????
10. ALICE JUDD  1532-1593 
11. Henry JUDD  ± 1528-????

(2) He is married to Mary MATTHEWS.

They got married in the year 1552, he was 60 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Martha JUDD  1553-1614 

(3) He is married to Annys LANGTON.

They got married after 1550.

Notes about ANDREW JUDD

Third son. In 1509 London apprenticed to John Buknell, "a Skinner and Merchant of the Staple of Calais" for 8 years. 23 Mar 1517 First evidence of him as Merchant of the Staple, so released at least a little early from his apprenticeship. On this date he paid the duty for a cargo of wool shipped to Calais. "Thereafter his name occurs frequently".

In 1520 "took up his freedom as a member of the Skinners' Company" London. 1520-1521 Fraternity of the Assumption of Our Lady, London; paid 4 shillings "entry money"; high on their list 1524.
1522-1523 Fraternity of Corpus Christi, London; "the account books of the Skinners show ... that Andrew Judde paid 20 shillings on becoming one of the 'Newe Brethern'".

Mary Mirfyn was the daughter of Sir Thomas Mirfyn (d. 1523), Lord Mayor of London in 1518, and (probably) his first wife, Alice, since she was already married (or at least betrothed to) Sir Andrew Judde at the time of her father's death. Some genealogies, however, say that her mother was his second wife, Elizabeth Don or Donne, which would place her birth date at 1519 at the earliest. She died 14 Nov 1550. "Her funeral is entered both in Wriothesley's Chronicle, and in Machyn's Diary, both of which have been published by the Camden Society".

In 1523 London co-executor of his father-in-law's will with Mirfyn's own son.

1533 Master of the Skinners' Co "and five times thereafter". Merchant of the Staple of Calais.
12 Jul 1541 Alderman from this date ward of Farringdon without, London.

Widowed before 1542? Had had five children with Mary; 2 not in his will.

Married Agnes / Annys (----) in 1542 London; 2nd wife, no children, nothing more known.

In 1547 Treasurer of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, when it was remodelled. "Certainly one of the richest and most prominent of overseas merchants in early Tudor London".
1550 Lord Mayor of London: "he had to deal with the problems caused by dearth and by the 1551 'calling down' of the coinage".

One dau. survived from the 3rd marriage.

In May 1553 Tonbridge School obtained letters patent for the erection of a free school with the Skinners' Company as trustees. One of the Aldermen who signed the device of King Edward VI.
In Sep 1555 Staple Inn, London, Felipe of Spain (consort of Queen Mary) passed the night at the Staple Inn, and "Sir Andrew presented the King with a purse containing a thousand marks in gold".
Circa 1556 Skinners Hall, London, Judde and Sir John Champneys donated money for the ceiling of the hall, and the Skinners had the arms of both carved as ornaments for the hall.
Between 1556 and 1558 "At this time Sir Andrew was buying manors at Ashford and places adjoining from Sir Anthony Aucher, soon to lose his life at Calais. This estate passed to his daughter Alice and so to her son Sir Thomas Smyth, who in his turn was a benefactor of Tonbridge School".

1557 and 1558 "Surveyor-general of all the London hospitals" London.

Before 1558 Resided at Eshetisford - Essetisford - Ashford, Kent. Will London; "Sir Andrew Jud, skinner, mayor 1551, erected one notable free school at Tunbridge in Kent, and alms houses nigh St. Helen's church in London, and left to the Skinners lands to the value of 60 pounds 3 shillings and 8 pence the year; for the which they be bound to pay 20 pounds to the schoolmaster, 8 pounds to the usher, yearly, for ever, and four shollings the week to the six alms people, and 25 shillings and 4 pence the year in coals for ever".

There is a great deal of confusion about Sir Andrew's wives. Wife number three was also named Mary and some accounts say she was Mary Mirfyn. She appears, however, to have been Mary Mathews, the daughter of Thomas Mathews of Colchester, Essex. She, too, married three times, ending up as an extremely wealthy woman. Mary's first husband was Thomas Langton of London (d. 1551), a skinner. On 7 Feb 1551/2 she married Sir Andrew, who had been Lord Mayor of London the previous year. After his death, she married James Altham (d. 1583), a former sheriff of London who was sheriff of Essex in 1570-1 and the owner of Mark Hall in Latton (now Harlow), Essex. She may have had as many as nine children from these three marriages, two sons and seven daughters, but since she referred to several of her grandchildren as her sons and daughters in her will, the result is still more confusion. She had at least two daughters by Langton, Mary (d. 1575) and Jane (d. 1609) and one, Martha, by Judde. Sir Andrew Judde left his widow Ashford Manor and Esture, Kent (worth £73/year), Barden in Hertford, worth £40/year, and land in Surrey worth £28/year. At her death, Lady Judde left some £2000 to be distributed in cash and a considerable number of household furnishings. She was buried with her third husband.

Buried Sep 1558, St Helen's Bishopsgate, London. Probate Mar 1558 - 1605 Prerogative Court, Canterbury, Kent, Ref. 58 Noodes, 54 Welles ("De bonis non adm.") grants, March 1558-9 & Aug 1605. Properties in St. Helene, London and Eshetisford, Kent, "etc."
SOURCE: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/AndrewJudde.htm

Sir Andrew Judde, or Judd (died 1558) was a 16th-century English merchant and Lord Mayor of London.

He was born in Tonbridge, the youngest son of John Judde, Esq., a landowner from a leading local family. His mother, Margaret Chiche, was the granddaughter of an earlier Lord Mayor of London, Robert Chichele, and great-niece of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, and William Chichele, Sheriff of London. He left for London and apprenticed with the Skinners Company; he was later the master of the company for four terms. He accumulated a large fortune, part of which he used to establish the Tonbridge School in his home town. During his career as a merchant, he personally traveled to Russia, Spain, and the coast of Africa. He served as one of the Sheriffs of London in 1544, and was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1550. As a result of his vigorous opposition to Wyatt's Rebellion, he gained the favor of Queen Mary and Philip II of Spain. He served as Mayor of the Staple of Calais.

Sir Andrew Judde was married three times. His first wife was Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Murfyn, an earlier Lord Mayor of London; by her he had a daughter, Alice, who married Thomas Smythe, collector of customs for London. He married a second time, by 1542, to Agnes, about whom nothing is known. His third and final marriage was to Mary, daughter of Thomas Mathews of Colchester. Andrew died on September 4, 1558.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Judde

Sir Andrew Judde, Knight, the founder of Tonbridge School was born c 1492 in Tonbridge to John and Margaret Judde.

As a young man he went to London and was apprenticed to the Company of Skinners where through trade - he is styled a "skinner and merchant of Muscovy" - he amassed a large fortune, a considerable portion of which he used on the foundation of Tonbridge School.

In 1544, Sir Andrew Judde filled the office of Sheriff of London, and in 1550-1551 was Lord Mayor when he took an active role in opposing Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. In 1555, he was Lord Deputy and Mayor of the Staple of Calais.

In May 1553 he obtained the charter from the King that "henceforth there may and shall be one Grammar School in the said Town of Tonbridge which shall be called the Free Grammar School of the aforesaid Sir Andrew Judd, Knight, in the said Town of Tonbridge, for the education institution and instruction of Boys and Youth in Grammar, to continue for ever.".

By the time of Sir Andrew's death in 1558 the original school had been built and the first headmaster - Rev. John Proctor - appointed. The date of the original statutes for the school is uncertain but they were drawn up during Sir Andrew's lifetime and formally adopted six years after his death in 1564.

Sir Andrew Judde married three times and his daughter Alice from the first marriage married Thomas Smyth and their son Sir Thomas Smythe (c 1558 - 1625) was a major benefactor to the school. Sir Andrew died on 4th September 1558 and was buried on the 14th in St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate, London, where there is a marble monument in his honour
SOURCE: www.theweald.org

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