Notes for Simon BRUGGE
Simon, of the Leye, co. Hereford, left a numerous posterity, of whom the chief branch was still living at the Leye, when Gregory King made his visitation of that county in 1684.
And hence descended Sir John Bridges, who was lord mayor of London, 12th Hen>t VIII., whose dau. Winifrede. m. 1st, Sir Richard Sackville, by whom the was mother of Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, and Earl of Dorset, the celebrated poet. Her ladyship m. 2ndly, John Powiett, Marquess of Winchester.