John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley
John Sutton VI, 1st Baron Dudley, KG, (25 December 1400 – 30 September 1487) was an English nobleman, 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 acted as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1428 to 1430.
Family and peerage
Born on 25 December 1400, John Sutton was baptised at
John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel
, sometime after 14 March 1420. The children of Dudley by this marriage were:
- Sir Edmund Sutton
- John Sutton Dudley, Atherington, whose son was Henry VII's minister Edmund Dudley, and whose grandson was John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland.
- William Dudley, Bishop of Durham, 1476–1483.
- Oliver Dudley (d 1469)[4]
- Eleanor Dudley (1439-1513)[4] who married firstly Sir Henry Beaumont (1446-1471)[4] of Wednesbury and secondly George Stanley (1440-1509)[4] of West Bromwich and High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1473.[5]
Dudley was summoned to Parliament on 15 February 1440, by writs directed to "Johanni de Sutton de Duddeley militi", whereby he obtained a
Barony by writ as Lord Dudley. He was the first of his family to adopt the surname of Dudley as an alias for Sutton. "John Dudley, Knyght, Lord Dudley" died testate in his 87th year. His will is dated 17 August 1487. The barony was inherited by his grandson, Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley, son of Sir Edmund Sutton who was the heir but died after 6 July 1483 but before his father.[2]
Royal service
As
Knight of the Garter.[6] Early on in the Wars of the Roses he was a resolute defender of the House of Lancaster, but changed his allegiance to York before the Battle of Towton
in 1461.
Wars of the Roses
At the
Richard, Duke of York
. On 28 June that year, Edward IV was proclaimed King in London.
Notes
- ^ Complete Peerage Vol. 4 p. 479
- ^ a b Complete Peerage Vol. 4 p. 480
- ^ "BERKELEY, Sir John I (1352-1428), of Beverstone castle, Glos. – History of Parliament Online". historyofparliamentonline.org.
- ^ a b c d UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
- ^ Staffordshire Record Society (1912), "Sheriffs of Staffordshire 1086–1912", Collections for a history of Staffordshire, vol. 12, Kendal, Eng., etc., pp. 272–294
- ^ a b Wilson p. 4
- ^ Wolffe pp. 190–195
- ^ Wolffe p. 104
References
- The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Edited by Vicary Gibbs
- Wilson, Derek (2005): The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne Carroll & Graf ISBN 0-7867-1469-7
- Wolffe, Bertram: Henry VI, Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-300-08926-0
