Background
Brudenell was the son of Robert Brudenell, of Doddington, Huntingdonshire, and Deene, Northamptonshire, by Catherine Taylarde, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Taylarde.
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He was the grandson of Sir Thomas Brudenell, High Sheriff of Rutland, and the great-grandson of Sir Robert Brudenell, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. In 1611 he was created a Baronet, of Deene in the County of Northampton. In 1628 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Brudenell, of Stonton in the County of Leicester.
He fought on the Royalist side in the Civil War and was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Following the Restoration, he was created Earl of Cardigan in 1661. Lord Cardigan married Mary Tresham, daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham, of Rushton, Northamptonshire.
The Countess of Cardigan died in October 1664.
