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Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley, (c. 1460 – 31 January 1531) was an
English nobleman elected as
Knight of the Garter
The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III of England in 1348. It is the most senior order of knighthood in the British honours system, outranked in precedence only by the Victoria Cross and the George ...
(KG) in the beginning of
King Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disag ...
's reign. He was chamberlain to Princess Mary (later
Queen Mary I
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. Sh ...
) from 1525 to 1528.
Early life
Edward Sutton was the eldest son of Sir
Edmund Sutton and Joyce de Tiptoft, daughter of Sir
John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft
John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft (died 27 January 1443) was a Knight of the Shire for Huntingdonshire and Somerset, Speaker of the House of Commons, Treasurer of the Household, Chief Butler of England, Treasurer of the Exchequer and Seneschal of ...
. In right of his wife Joyce, Edmund Dudley benefited from her inheritance of the
Tibetot barony and
Cherleton barony, and thus co-heir to the Powis inheritance, but was never created baron of these holdings.
Through his uncle, John Sutton Dudley,
Knt. of
Atherington, his first cousin was
Edmund Dudley
Edmund Dudley (c. 1462Gunn 2010 or 1471/147217 August 1510) was an English administrator and a financial agent of King Henry VII. He served as a leading member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons and Presi ...
(
Henry VII's minister), who was the father of
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504Loades 2008 – 22 August 1553) was an English general, admiral, and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lady Ja ...
. Another uncle was
William Dudley,
Bishop of Durham
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. His aunt, Eleanor Dudley,
[UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current] married Sir Henry Beaumont of
Wednesbury
Wednesbury () is a market town in Sandwell in the county of West Midlands, England. It is located near the source of the River Tame. Historically part of Staffordshire in the Hundred of Offlow, at the 2011 Census the town had a population of ...
,
and George Stanley,
of
West Bromwich
West Bromwich ( ) is a market town in the borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is north-west of Birmingham. West Bromwich is part of the area known as the Black Country, in terms of geography, ...
and High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1473.
[Staffordshire Record Society (1912), "Sheriffs of Staffordshire 1086–1912", Collections for a history of Staffordshire, vol. 12, Kendal, Eng., etc., pp. 272–294]
Peerage
In 1487, upon the death of his grandfather,
John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley
John Sutton VI, 1st Baron Dudley, KG, (25 December 1400 – 30 September 1487) was an English nobleman, a diplomat, and councillor of King Henry VI. He fought in several battles during the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, as well as ...
, he inherited the
barony of Dudley Barony may refer to:
* Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron
* Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron
* Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...
, which had been created for him in 1440, ten years after he had served as
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (), or more formally Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland, was the title of the chief governor of Ireland from the Williamite Wars of 1690 until the Partition of Ireland in 1922. This spanned the Kingdo ...
.
Personal life
Edward married Cecily Willoughby, daughter of Sir William Willoughby and Joan Strangeways, and granddaughter of
Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk
Katherine Neville (c. 1397 – late summer 1483) was a medieval English noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and his second wife Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, Joan Beaufort. Through her mother, she ...
, by whom he had:
#
John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley
John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley ( –1553), commonly known as Lord Quondam, was an English nobleman.
Early life
John Sutton was born in 1494, at Dudley Castle, Worcestershire, the eldest son and heir of Sir Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley and his w ...
, his successor.
# Hon. Geoffrey Sutton, who married Eleanor Talbot, by whom he was the father of
Thomas Sutton of Russels.
# Hon. Thomas Sutton.
# Hon. Arthur Sutton, prebendary in
Lichfield Cathedral
Lichfield Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, one of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom with three spires (together with Truro Cathedral and St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh), and the only medie ...
(see
Chad of Mercia
Chad of Mercia (died 2 March 672) was a prominent 7th-century Anglo-Saxon Catholic monk who became abbot of several monasteries, Bishop of the Northumbrians and subsequently Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey People. He was later canonised ...
).
# Hon. Elizabeth Sutton, who married Thomas Butler, son of
Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond
Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory (1539) also known as Red Piers (Irish ''Piers Ruadh''), was from the Polestown–– branch of the Butler family of Ireland. In the succession crisis at the death of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl ...
.
# Hon. Alice Dudley
utton
# Hon. Eleanor Sutton, who married firstly
Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester
Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, KG (c. 146015 March 1526) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the legitimised bastard son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset by his mistress Joan Hill.
Origins
He was born in about ...
, and secondly
Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane
Leonard Grey, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1479/149228 July 1541), known as Lord Leonard Grey prior to 1536, served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1536 to 1540.
Family
Leonard Grey was a younger son of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset and Cecily B ...
.
# Hon. Joyce Sutton, who married firstly Sir John Leighton of
Wattlesborough
Wattlesborough Tower is a ruined fortified 13th-century manor house or Tower House in Shropshire.
It is situated close to the boundary with Powys in Wales. Wattlesborough is a former township within the present parish of Alberbury. The castle i ...
. After his death, she married Richard Lee, MP for
Much Wenlock
Much Wenlock is a market town and parish in Shropshire, England, situated on the A458 road between Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth. Nearby, to the northeast, is the Ironbridge Gorge, and the new town of Telford. The civil parish includes the villag ...
, before 1538.
# Hon. Jane (Joan, Johanna) Sutton, who married
Sir Thomas Fiennes, son of
Thomas, Baron Dacre.
# Hon. Margaret Sutton, who married John Grey, 2nd
Baron Grey of Powis
The title Baron Grey of Powis (1482–1552) was created for the great-grandson of Joan Charleton (c. 1400–1425), co-heiress and 6th Lady of Powis (Powys) and her husband, Sir John Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville (1384–1421) after the death of ...
. Their son was
Edward Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Powis, to whom his uncle John, Lord Dudley, sold the Tiptoft-Dudley portion of
Powis Castle
Powis Castle ( cy, Castell Powys) is a British medieval castle, fortress and grand country house near Welshpool, in Powys. The seat of the Herbert family, Earls of Powis, the castle is known for its formal gardens and for its interiors, the form ...
.
# Hon. Catherine Sutton, who married Sir
George Gresley of Drakelow.
Descendants
Through his daughter Joyce's first marriage, he was a grandfather of Sir
Edward Leighton, was
custos rotulorum
''Custos rotulorum'' (; plural: ''custodes rotulorum''; Latin for "keeper of the rolls", ) is a civic post that is recognised in the United Kingdom (except Scotland) and in Jamaica.
England, Wales and Northern Ireland
The ''custos rotulorum'' is t ...
for
Shropshire
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th ...
, and
Sir Thomas Leighton, the Governor of Jersey who married
Elizabeth Knollys (a daughter of
Catherine Carey
Catherine Carey, after her marriage Catherine Knollys and later known as both Lady Knollys and Dame Catherine Knollys, (c. 1522 – 15 January 1569), was chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I, who was her first cousin.
Biograph ...
and sister of
Lettice Knollys
Lettice Knollys ( , sometimes latinized as Laetitia, alias Lettice Devereux or Lettice Dudley), Countess of Essex and Countess of Leicester (8 November 1543Adams 2008a – 25 December 1634), was an English noblewoman and mother to the courtier ...
).
Through his daughter Jane, he was a grandfather of
Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre
{{Infobox noble
, honorific-prefix = The Right Horourable
, name = The Lord Dacre
, title = Baron Dacre
, image = Fiennes,Thomas Baron Dacre.jpg
, caption = ''Thomas Fiennes, Baron Dacre''
, alt =
, Co ...
, who was executed for murder in 1541.
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Knights of the Garter
1460s births
1532 deaths
16th-century English nobility
Edward
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History
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Edward
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”.
History
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