1569, Bedford was sent into Wales, and he sat in judgment upon the Duke of Norfolk in 1572. In 1576 he was president of the council of Wales. In 1581 he was one of the commissioners deputed to arrange a marriage between Elizabeth and François, Duke of Anjou. Bedford, who was made a Knight of the Garter in 1564, appears to have been a generous and popular man, and died in London in 1585. Personal life His first wife was Margaret (née St John) Gostwick (1533–1562), a widow of Sir John Gostwick. Margaret was a daughter of Sir John St John (great-grandson of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso) and Margaret Waldegrave (a daughter of Sir William Waldegrave). Together, they were the parents of four sons and three daughters: Lady Anne Russell (1548–1603), who married Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick. Henry Russell, Baron Russell (1551–1572), who married his step-sister, Jane Sybilla Morrison of Cashiobury, without issue. John Russell, Baron Russell (–1584), who married Elizabeth Hoby, widow of Sir Thomas Hoby and daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke. They had one son, Francis, who died young, and two daughters, which included Anne Russell, wife of Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester. Francis Russell, Baron Russell (–1585), MP for Northumberland, from 1572 to 1584; captured at the Raid of the Redeswire in 1575, mortally wounded in a fray on the Scottish border, dying hours before his father. He married Juliana Foster and had issue, including Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford. William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (–1613), the Lord Deputy of Ireland who married Elizabeth Long, granddaughter of Sir Richard Long. They had one son, Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford. Lady Elizabeth Russell (d. 1605), who married William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath. Lady Margaret Russell (1560–1616), who married George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland. Lady Bedford died on 27 August 1562. Bedford married his second wife, Bridget Manners, the Dowager Countess of Rutland (d. 1601), on 25 June 1566. Lady Rutland, a daughter of John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford and Lady Anne Grey (a daughter of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent), had been twice widowed; first from Ambassador Sir Richard Morrison of Cashiobury in 1556, and second from Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland in 1563. Lord Bedford died in London on 28 July 1585. He was buried at the family chapel at St. Michael's Church next