Individual Details

Baron Edward Sutton Dudley

(1459 - 31 Jan 1531)

Edward DUDLEY_(SUTTON) ([BARON DUDLEY]) He was the 7th and last to bear the title BARON. a Knight of the Garter. The last person to bear any title was a Ferdinando Dudley Lea of Halesowen Grange, Worcestershire. He was summoned to Parliament in 1740. The Title fell into abeyance among his five sisters-and it is in that state today. The Castle and the Dudley lands passed to the male Heir of the Ward Family, and these descendants have been ennobled under the titles of Viscounts and more recently, Earls of Dudley.
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2nd Baron of Dudley. Summoned to the parliament from 1492 to 1529. He became a Knight of the Garter in the beginning of King Henry VIII's reign and was chamberlain to Princess Mary (later Queen Mary) from 1525- 1528.
He married Cecille, daughter of Sir William Willoughby, Knight.
Their issue:
John, his successor
Elizabeth m. Thomas Butler
Geoffrey
Alice
Thomas
Eleanor m. Charles Somerset
Joyce m. Sir John Leighton
Johanna m. Sir Thomas Fiennes
Margaret m. John Grey
Catherine m. Sir George Gresley of Drakelow, Derby
Arthur

A Genealogical Hisitory of the Dormant, Abenant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire by Sir Beernard Burke, LL.D., 1866, p. 521.
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Baron Edward Sutton (Dudley)and Cicely Willowghby were married about 1480. Their children born in Dudley, Worcestershire:
Eleanor Dudley born about 1481.
Jane (Joan) Dudley born about 1483.
Margaret Dudley born about 1485.
William Dudley born about 1489
Catherine Dudley born about 1490.
Joyce Dudley born about 1492.
Dorothy Dudley born about 1493.
Elizabeth Dudley born about 1493.
Alice Dudley born about 1494.
John Dudley born about 1495.
Edward Dudley born about 1497.
Thomas Dudley born about 1499.
Constancia Dudley born about 1501.
Arthur Dudley born about 1505.
Geoffrey Dudley born about 1507.
George Dudley born about 1511.

Events

Birth1459Dudley Castle, Worcestershire, England
Marriage1484Worcestershire, England - Cecilia Margaret Willoughby
Death31 Jan 1531England
BurialSaint James Priory, Dudley, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England

Families

SpouseCecilia Margaret Willoughby (1463 - 1539)
ChildSir John Sutton Dudley ( - )
FatherEdmund Sutton Dudley (1425 - 1488)
MotherJoyce Tiptoft (1430 - 1485)

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