John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick

John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick was the heir of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland.

John (b. before 1528) was married to Anne Seymour, Somerset’s daughter, in great ceremony attended by the ‘Child Crown Prince Edward’, and on the following day ‘Robart’, his elder brother (fifth Son of Northumberland), who was about 17 on the occasion of his wedding to Amy Robsart in 1550, was contracted, an event which was also attended by the Prince Edward, (son of the late King Henry VIII'th), and by whose invitation the ceremony was performed at his Palace at Sheen.

Not much is recorded about the short life of John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick. He was the son of the Duke and Dutchess of Northumberland. Lady Jane Dudley was shut up in the Tower with Northumberlands fall for having signed the letters patent that declaired Lady Jane as heir apparent.

His release along with his surviving brothers was chiefly secured upon the tireless pleadings of their mother Jane Dudley, she rode into Essex as soon as she was released to meet the Queen and plead for the lives of her imprisoned family, but was turned away on Mary's orders, Northumberland was executed for teason.

Wyatt's rebellion sealed the fate of Guildford Dudley, husband of Lady Jane Grey, but three of his brothers, John, Robert and Henry, were released in October 1554 and the fourth, Ambrose, soon afterwards.

John, the eldest having been much reduced in health died only three days later on the 18th October at his brother in law, Henry Sidney’s castle of Penshurst in Kent.

Jane Dudley, the mother of Ambrose and Robert died before her son’s release and was laid to rest in her parish Church of Chelsea.