Rice Rudd, 1st Baronet

Sir Rice Rudd, 1st Baronet (also Richard Rudd ; † May 1, 1664 ) was an English nobleman .

He was the eldest son of Anthony Rudd , who had become Bishop of St Davids in 1594, and his wife Anne Dalton. When his father died in 1615, he was of legal age and inherited the Aberglasney estate in Carmarthenshire which his father had bought . There he continued the expansion of the manor house and the garden that his father had begun.

King James I granted Rudd various privileges in 1617. Rudd supported the tax collection that King Charles I wanted to carry out without the consent of Parliament and was raised to Baronet , of Aberglassney in the County of Carmarthen on December 8, 1628 . During the English Civil War he raised troops for the king, which is why he had to pay a heavy fine of over £ 581 after the victory of Parliament. It is not known whether he actively fought during the civil war.

Rudd married Jane's first marriage († 1626), a daughter of Thomas ap Rhys from Rickeston in Pembrokeshire . With her he had at least three sons and two daughters:

• Anthony Rudd († 1648);
• Urien Rudd;
• Thomas Rudd;
• Anne Rudd;
• Constance Rudd.

His second marriage was Elizabeth Aubrey, daughter of Sir Thomas Aubrey from Llantrithyd in Glamorgan . This marriage remained childless.

Since his eldest son Anthony had already died, his son Rice Rudd became his heir as 2nd baronet.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Blockley, Kevin, Halfpenny, Ian (Eds.): Aberglasney House and Gardens: Archeology, History and Architecture . Archaeopress, Oxford 2002, ISBN 1-84171-409-7 , p. 2
2. ^ Francis Jones: Aberglasney and its Families. In: National Library of Wales Journal, 1979, p. 8
3. ^ Francis Jones: Aberglasney and its Families. In: National Library of Wales Journal , 1979, p. 9

predecessor	title	successor
New title created	Baronet, of Aberglassney 1628-1664	Rice Rudd