Sir Edmund Sutton (1425 – c. 1485)
Early life
Sutton was born in
Dudley
Dudley is a large market town and administrative centre in the county of West Midlands, England, southeast of Wolverhampton and northwest of Birmingham. Historically an exclave of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the ...
, the eldest son of
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 ...
,
KG, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Berkeley.
Career
He fought alongside his father during the conflict today known as the
wars of the roses
The Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), known at the time and for more than a century after as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne in the mid-to-late fifteenth century. These wars were fought bet ...
and was present at the battles of St Albans, Blore Heath and Towton.
Personal life
Edmund married Joyce Tiptoft, daughter of
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 ...
by Joyce de Cherleton(daughter of
Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Cherleton
Edward Charlton (also Cherleton or Charleton), 5th Baron Charlton, KG (1370–1421), 5th and last Lord Charlton of Powys, was the younger son of John Charlton, the third baron, and his wife, Joan, daughter of Lord Stafford.
During the lifetim ...
), ultimately coheir to the baronies of Cherleton and Tiptoft. She transmitted to the Dudley family the quarterings of Tiptoft, Cherleton, Holland, and that of
Edmund of Woodstock, youngest son of King
Edward I of England
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he ruled the duchies of Aquitaine and Gascony as a vas ...
. Together, they were the parents of:
*
Edward Sutton (b. 1459) who succeeded his grandfather, John Sutton, as
2nd Baron Dudley; he 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 ...
.
[''Burkes Peerage'' (1939 edition), s.v. Dudley, Baron.]
Edmund then (c. 1465) married Matilda, daughter of
Thomas Lord Clifford and they had several children, including:
*
Thomas Sutton of Yanwath (1518-1593), who married Dorothy Sandford, daughter of Edmund Sandford of
Askham, Cumbria.
* John Dudley (d. 1580), who married Elizabeth Gardiner.
Edmund's exact date of death is not known, but was living on 6 July 1483 but died before his father (who died 30 September 1487).
Descendants
One of his descendants was Mayflower passenger Richard More.
References
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1425 births
1480s deaths
Heirs apparent who never acceded
Medieval English knights
People from Dudley