Ferdinando Sutton

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Ferdinando Sutton or Ferdinando Dudley (1588-1621) was an English aristocrat.

He was a son of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley (1567-1643) and Theodosia Harington (died 1649).[1]

The Sutton family used their title "Dudley" as a surname. His father abandoned Theodosia, Lady Harington for his mistress Elizabeth Tomlinson. According to a bill produced in the Star Chamber by his political rival in Staffordshire, Gilbert Lyttelton,[2] in 1592 he had "left that virtuous lady his wife in London without sustenance, and took to his home a lewd and infamous woman, a base collier's daughter".[3] In 1597 Ferdinando and his sister Anne were lodged in Clerkenwell as wards of their aunt and uncle Elizabeth and Edward Montagu of Boughton.[4]

His sister Anne joined the household of Princess Elizabeth and was known as "Mistress Dudley". Ferdinando Sutton was knighted on 4 June 1610, when Prince Henry was created Prince of Wales.[5]

Ferdinando Sutton married Honora Seymour, a daughter of Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp and Honora Rogers in July 1610. Honora, Lady Dudley died in March 1620 and was buried in the parish church of St Edmund in Dudley.[6]

He died on 22 November 1621 of smallpox and was buried at St Margaret's, Westminster. On the previous day he bequeathed his estates and possessions to his sister Margaret Hobart. The will was witnessed by his aunt Mary Wingfield and his servant William Dudley.[7]

His daughter Frances was born in 1611 at Dudley Castle. She married Humble Ward (born 1612), son of a London goldsmith, William Ward and Elizabeth Humble (died 1616).[8] According to William Dugdale, her grandfather arranged her marriage to Ward to alleviate his debts, which were large because of his relationship with Elizabeth Tomlinson.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ 'HARINGTON, James I', History of Parliament Online: 1558–1603
  2. ^ S. M. Thorpe, 'LYTTELTON, Gilbert (c.1540-99)', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981.
  3. ^ Henry Sydney Grazebrook, 'An Account of the Barons of Dudley', Collections for a History of Staffordshire, vol. 9 (1880), pp. 111-2.
  4. ^ Acts of the Privy Council, vol. 27, pp. 325-8: 'DUDLEY, alias SUTTON, Edward (1567-1643), of Dudley Castle, Staffs.' The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981.
  5. ^ Collections for a History of Staffordshire, vol. 9 (London, 1888), p. 114.
  6. ^ Collections for a History of Staffordshire, vol. 9 (London, 1888), p. 115.
  7. ^ Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1849): Collections for a History of Staffordshire, vol. 9 (London, 1888), p. 115.
  8. ^ Collections for a History of Staffordshire, vol. 9 (London, 1888), p. 115: William Thompson, History and Antiquities of the Collegiate Church of St Saviour, Southwark (London, 1894), pp. 42-3, 98, 146. William Ward married secondly Rose Rogers.
  9. ^ Egerton Brydges, Memoirs of the Peers of England, 1 (London, 1802), p. 138: Dugdale, II, p. 217.
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