Andrew Judde

Sir Andrew Judde or Judd (5 September 1492 – 1558) was a 16th-century English merchant and Lord Mayor of London.^[1] He was knighted on 15 February 1551.^[1]

The Right Honourable Sir Andrew Judde
Monument to Sir Andrew Judde in St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate
Lord Mayor of London
In office 1550–1550
Monarch	Edward VI
Preceded by	Sir Rowland Hill
Succeeded by	Sir Richard Dobbs
Sheriff of London
In office 1544–1544
Monarch	Henry VIII
Personal details
Born	(1492-09-05)September 5, 1492 Tonbridge, Kent
Died	(1558-09-04)September 4, 1558 London, UK
Resting place	St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London, UK 51.5148°N 0.0818°W / 51.5148; -0.0818
Spouse(s)	Mary Murfyn Agnes (Annys) Mary Mathews
Children	John Richard Alice Martha

Biography

He was born in Tonbridge, the third son of John Judde, (d. 1493), gentleman, and Margaret, daughter of Valentine Chiche.^[1] His mother 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.^[2] 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 Tonbridge School in his home town. During his career as a merchant, he personally travelled to Russia, Spain, and the coast of Africa.

After the dissolution of the property of the military order, the Knights of St John in England, their Battisford Preceptory was given to Judde by Henry VIII in July 1543. He soon gained permission to sell it on, the property passing to Sir Richard Gresham in April 1544.^[3]

He served as one of the Sheriffs of London in 1544, and was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1550.^[4] As a result of his vigorous opposition to Wyatt's Rebellion, he gained the favour of Queen Mary and Philip II of Spain. He served as Mayor of the Staple of Calais.

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  Tonbridge School, founded by Andrew Judde
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  The Judd School, founded by the Skinners Company, is named after Andrew Judde

Family

Sir Andrew Judde was married three times.^[5]

• He married first, by 1523,^[6] Mary (d. 1542), daughter of Thomas Murfyn (d. 1523), an earlier Lord Mayor of London, and his first wife, Alice Marshall.^[7] By her he had four sons, two of whom survived, and a daughter:^[1]
  • John Judd
  • Richard Judd
  • Alice Judd, who married Thomas Smythe (1522–1591), collector of customs for London.^[1]

(His first wife's half sister, Frances Murfyn (c. 1520–c. 1543), married, in 1534, Thomas Cromwell's nephew, Richard.^[8] Alice Squire (d. 1560), the widow of her brother, Edward Murfyn, married circa 1528, Edward North (later Baron North).^[9])

• He married a second time, in 1542, to Agnes (Annys), about whom nothing is known.^[1]
• His third and final marriage was in 1552 to Mary (died 1602),^[10] the wealthy widow of another skinner, Thomas Langton, and daughter of Thomas Mathews of Colchester. By his last wife, he had a daughter:^[1]
  • Martha Judd, who married Robert Golding in Essex.^[1] Her mother bequeathed to them the furniture of the Queen's Chamber at Latton, and silverware with the arms of Andrew Judde.^[11]

Death

Judde died on 4 September 1558 and was buried in St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London.^[1]

References

1. Slack 2008.
2. Cox 1876, p. 247.
3. "House of Knights Hospitaller: Preceptory of Battisford | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
4. Beaven 1913, p. 30.
5. Slack 2008, p. 99.
6. Drake 1873, pp. vi–viii.
7. Lambarde 1931, p. 99: Thomas Murfyn married his second wife, Elizabeth Donne, in 1519, therefore Mary must be a daughter by his first wife.
8. Hofmann 1982.
9. Hawkyard 1982.
10. F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants (Chelmsford, 1978), pp. 23–26: Will of Dame Mary Judd or Judde, Widow of Latton, Essex (P.C.C. 1602, Montague quire).
11. F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants (Chelmsford, 1978), pp. 23–24.

Bibliography

• Beaven, Alfred B. (1913). The Aldermen of the City of London. Vol. II. London: Corporation of the City of London.
• Cox, John Edmund (1876). The Annals of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London. London: Tinsley Brothers.
• Drake, William R. (1873). "Appendix I". Fasciculus Mervinensis, Being Notes Historical, Genealogical, and Heraldic of the Family of Mervyn. London: Privately printed. pp. vi–viii.
• Hawkyard, A. D. K. (1982). "North, Edward (c.1504-64), of Kirtling, Cambs., the Charterhouse, Mdx. and London". In Bindoff, S.T. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558. Boydell and Brewer.
• Hofmann, T.M. (1982). "Cromwell, alias Williams, Richard (by 1512-44), of London; Stepney, Mdx. and Hinchingbroke, Hunts.". In Bindoff, S.T. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558. Boydell and Brewer.
• Lambarde, Fane (1931). "Sir Andrew Judde" (PDF). Archaeologia Cantiana. 43. Kent Archaeological Society: 99–102.
• Machyn, Henry (1848). Nichols, John Gough (ed.). The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant–Taylor of London, from A. D. 1550 to A. D. 1563. [Camden Society. Publications]. Vol. XLII. London, UK: Camden Society by J.B. Nichols and Son.
• Slack, Paul (3 January 2008). "Judde, Sir Andrew". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37622. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Vere-Hodge, H. S. (1953). Sir Andrew Judde, Lord Mayor of London 1550-1551, Mayor of the Staple of Calais, Six Times Master of the Skinners Company, Founder of Tonbridge School 1553. Tonbridge School Shop.
• Wadmore, J. F. (1881). "Some Account of the History and Antiquities of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, London". Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. 5. London: J. H. & J. Parker: 92−182. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
• Wriothesley, Charles (1875). Hamilton, William Douglas (ed.). A Chronicle Of England During The Reigns Of The Tudors: From A.D. 1485 To 1559 I. Vol. XI. London, UK: Camden Society.

External links

• Tonbridge School, History
• Sir Andrew Judde
• Hutchinson, John (1892). "Sir Andrew Judd" . Men of Kent and Kentishmen. Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. p. 82.