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DUDLEV. 183 to Pari, as a Baron by writs directed " Johanni dc Sutton de Duddchy, Militi," from 15 Feb. (1439/40), 18 Hen. VI.(«) to 1 Sep. (1387), 3 Hen. VII. He was one of those whom the Commons petitioned in 1451 to he removed from the councils of the King, with whom, on 23 May 1455, he was taken prisoner at the battle of St. Albans and on whose side he was wounded at Blore Heath 23 Sep. 1159. He was el. K.G-. before 23 April 1459. He was, however, much favoured by the new King by whom in 1473 he was made Constable of the Tower. He m. Elizabeth, widow of Edward (Cherleton), Lord Cherleton de Powys (who d. 1421), da. of Sir John Berkeley, of Beverstone, co. Glouc, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Betteshounk. She who was living 20 July 1455, d. before 1479, and was bur. in St. James Priory, Dudley. He d, 30 Sep. 1487, in his 87th year, and was bur. there, his "goodly monument" being removed to St. Edmund's, Dudley. Will {"John Dudley, Knt, Lord Dudley") dat. 14 Aug. 1487, and pr. 14S7. Inq. post mortem 23 Nov. 1487.( b ) VI. 14S7. G. Edward (Sutton alias Dudley), Lord Dudley, grandson and h., being s. and h. of Sir Edmund Dudley, by his 1st wife Joyce, sister (whose issue became heir) of John, Earl ok Worcester, 3d and yst. da. of John (de Tiptoft), Lord Tiftoft, by his 2d wife, Joyce, 2d and yst. da. and coheir of Edward (Cherleton), Lord Cherleton de Powys,( c ) which Sir Edmund Dudley was s. and h. ap. of the last Lord but d. v.p. tho' alive C July 14S3. He was b. about 1459, being 20 in (1485-86), 1 Hen. VII, when he was found cousin and coheir of Edward (Tiptoft), Earl of Worcester. ( d ) He was knighted 25 Nov. 1487, at the Coronation of Elizabeth the Queen Consort, soon after his accession to the peerage. He was sum. to Pari, from 12 Aug. (1492), 7 Hen. VII. to 3 Nov. (1529) 21 Hen. VI1L(°) He was el. KG. 18 and inst. 21 May 1509. He m. Cicely,(0 da. of Sir William Willoughby, by Joan, da. and coheir of Thomas Strangewats. Hed. 31 Jany. 1531/2.(8) ( a ) 3ee p. 182, note " a," as to the probability of tliis being the first writ that could be held valid as to the creation of this dignity. There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. ( b ) The historic Dudleys (Earls of Warwick, Queen Elizabeth's Earl of Leicester, &c), derive from his second son, John Dudley, of Atherington, in Climping, Sussex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex 14S4-5, who m. Elizabeth, da. and h. of John (or William) Brumshot, Lord of the manors of Gattou, Calbourne, and Whitwell, in the Isle of Wight. His will as "Esquyer" dat. 1 Oct, 1500, is pr. 26 June 1501, and he was bur, under a costly monument in Arundel Church. That this John was father of Edmund Dudley and grandfather of John, the notorious Duke of Northumberland (as is positive! y staled by Sir rhilip Sidney, their descendant in his reply, cirea 15S4, to " Lcyccsler's Commonwealth") is proved (inter alia) by his own will iu which he mentions his brothers (1) William late (1476-83) Bishop of Durham, deed., and (2) Oliver Dudley, deed., and by the will of the said Oliver dat. 22 July and pr. 29 Nov. 1 169, iu which he is described as " Oliver dc Dudley, sou of the most noble Lord, Sir John Dudley, Knt." The story of Erdeswick (" Staffordihirc," edit. 1844, p. 338) that the Duke's grandfather was a carpenter in the employ of the monks of Lewes who called him John of Dudley" merely because he was born in Dudley town seems only to have been a mere invention prompted by spite and occasioned by tho unpopularity of this branch. Dugdale in his " Warwickshire " (ed. 1765, p. 301) gives it some countenance but in his " Baronage " unhesitatingly sets forth the descent of the Duke from John, Lord Dudley, K.Q., as above. (°) Through this alliance the quartering of Plantagenet (i.e. that of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, yst. s. of King Edward I), came, through the families of Holand, Cherleton and Tiptoft, to the Dudley family. ( d ) Edward, 2d Earl of Worcester, d. num. 1485, being only s. and h. of Edward, the 1st Earl (beheaded, but not, apparently, attainted in 1470), who was only br. of Damo Joyce Dudley, mother of this Lord Dudley. Through this alliance the Lords Dudley became coheirs of the Buronies of Tiptoft (cr. 1426) and of Cherleton («•■ 1313) ; nee vol. ii, p. 219, note " a," sub " Cherleton." (°) There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. (0 See " Coll. Top. ct Ocn.," vol. i, p. 300, and Visit, of co. York, 1563. (6) See as to his badge (1522-34) in " Coll. Top. ct Gen.," vol. iii, p. 49..