Edmund Dudley (a. 1462 - August 17, 1510), minister of Henry VII of England, was a grandson of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley. Events Settlers from Portugal begin to settle the Cape Verde islands. ... August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1510 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Henry VII (January 28, 1457 – April 21, 1509), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485 – April 21, 1509), was the founder and first patriarch of the Tudor dynasty. ... John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley (25 December 1400 - September 30, 1487), was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1428-30; MP 1440-87. ...

After studying at Oxford and at Gray's Inn, Dudley came under the notice of Henry VII, and is said to have been made a privy councillor at the early age of twenty-three. In 1492 he helped to negotiate the Peace of Etaples with France and soon became prominent in assisting the king to check the lawlessness of the barons. He and his colleague Sir Richard Empson were promintent councillors of the Council Learned in the Law, a special tribunal of Henry VII's reign, where they collected debts owed to the king, etc. The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... Entrance to Grays Inn Grays Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in around the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England to which barristers belong and where they are called to the bar. ... The Peace of Etaples was signed between Charles VIII of France and Henry VII of England on November 9, 1492. ... Sir Richard Empson (d. ... The Council Learned in the Law was a highly controversial tribunal of Henry VIIs reign. ...

Dudley was speaker of the House of Commons in 1504. In the United Kingdom, the Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, and is seen historically as the First Commoner of the Land. ...

In addition to collecting money for Henry, Dudley amassed a great amount of wealth for himself, and possessed large estates in Sussex, Dorset and Lincolnshire. When Henry VII died in April 1509, Dudley was imprisoned and charged with the crime of constructive treason. Dudley's nominal crime was that during the last illness of Henry VII he had ordered his friends to assemble in arms in case the king died, but the real reason for his charge was doubtless his unpopularity stemming from his position in the Council Learned. He was attainted and after having made a futile attempt to escape from prison, he was executed on the 17th or 18th of August 1510. Sussex is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. ... Dorset (pronounced DOR-sit or [dɔ.sət], and sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the south-west of England, on the English Channel coast. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the east of England. ... 1509 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Traitor redirects here. ...

During his imprisonment Dudley sought to gain the favour of King Henry VIII by writing a treatise in support of absolute monarchy called The Tree of Commonwealth. However, this may never have reached Henry VIII as it was not published until 1859, when it was printed privately in Manchester. Silver groat of Henry VIII, minted c. ...

Edmund Dudley married (1) Anne Windsor, sister of Andrews Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor with whom he had one daughter:

• Elizabeth, married William Stourton, 7th Baron Stourton

His second wife was (2) Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle with whom he had four children:

• John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
• Sir Andrew Dudley
• Jerome Dudley
• Simon Dudley

John Dudley John Dudley (1501 – August 22/23, 1553) was a Tudor nobleman and politician, executed for high treason by Queen Mary I of England. ...

References

• Francis Bacon, History of Henry VII, edited by Joseph Rawson Lumby (Cambridge, 1881)
• JS Brewer, The Reign of Henry VIII, edited by James Gairdner (London, 1884).
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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External links

• The Tree of Common Wealth - HTML version of this work.