After the Pilgrimage of Grace , Sussex was commissioned , together with Edward Stanley , 3rd Earl of Derby , to restore order in Lancashire , and as a reward for his services was granted the manor of Cleeve in Somerset . On 23 June 1537 he was granted the reversion of the office of Lord Steward of the Royal Household , although when the current holder , George Talbot , 4th Earl of Shrewsbury , died in the following year he was succeeded , not by Sussex , but by the King 's brother-in-law , Charles Brandon , 1st Duke of Suffolk . In 1539 Sussex was one of the commissioners appointed to defend the Thames and the coast of Essex
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex