Henry married Eleanor, daughter of Hugh Preston, Esq. son of Sir Thomas Preston, of Preston in Northamptonshire, Knight, and in his last will, dated January 22d, 1430-1, is written Henry Brudenell, of Agmondesham, Esq. He settles on trustees his manor of Shardelowes in Agmondesham, the reversion of the manor of Stoke Mandevile, called Oldbury, the reversion of the manor of Brydell in Sanderigg, in com. Hertford, and other lands; appointing to John Brudenell his son, and the heirs of his body, all those lands in the tenure of John Russel, Richard Chowne, and John Prestmere, with the wood called Denfordwood, as also the manor of Shardelowes, remainder to Edmund, brother to him the said John. And to his son Robert, his manor of Oldbury, remainder to Edmund, son of William his brother, and the heirs of the body of the said Edmund, son of William; remainder to Margaret, sister of the said Henry, and the heirs of her body; remainder to his right heirs. He moreover wills, that his lands lying scattered about Chesham, Agmondesham, Wendover, and elsewhere, be sold to raise money to be distributed for his soul, the souls of Edmund his brother, and Alice his wife, and of his father and mother. Of which sons of the said Henry, Edmund, the eldest, was ancestor to those of the name seated at Shardelowes, which terminated in a daughter and heir, Elizabeth, married to Thomas Cheney, Esq. in her right, lord of the manor of Shardelowes; and from Robert descended the Brudenells of Stoke-Mandevile in Buckinghamshire. [1]
[1] Egerton Brydges, Collins's Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical, Vol. 3 (London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1812), 488, [GoogleBooks].