Edmund Sutton
Sir Edmund Sutton (1425 – c. 1485) was a Knight of Dudley Castle and Gatescombe. Sutton was born in Dudley, the eldest son of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, KG, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Berkeley.[1]
Edmund married Joyce Tiptoft, daughter of John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft,[1] 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.
Edmund Sutton's exact date of death is not known, though it is documented that he died after 6 July 1483 and before his father, John Sutton (who died 30 September 1487). He had a son Edward, (b. 1459), who succeeded as 2nd Lord Dudley.[1]
His younger brother was John Dudley, of Atherington, whose son Edmund Dudley (1462–1510) married Elizabeth Grey. After this Edmund Dudley's execution, she wed Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, an illegitimate son of Edward IV. John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland was the son of Edmund Dudley and Elizabeth Grey.
