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 182 DUDLEY. Duddchy " which writ( a ) tho' he lived 17 years afterwards, was never repeated. He m. before 1329, Isabella, da. of John (de Cherleton), Loud Ciierleton feudal Lord of Powis, by Hawyse, sister and h. of Griffin AC Owen styled De La Pole also feudal Lord of Powis. He d. 23 Nov. 1359. Inq. post mortem 10 and 14 Jany. 1359/60, and 10 May 1360. His widow m. before 1360 Sir Eichard Dudley, who, by the courtesy of England, styled himself (1360) "Seigneur de Dudley" and who was living 1377. She d. at an advanced age 10 April 1397, having outlived both her son and grandson. Inq. post mortem 6, 14, and 24 Feb. 1100/1. II. 1359. 2. Sm John Sutton, de jure, apparently, Lord Dudley or Sutton de Dudley, s. and h., was uf full age at his father's death. He was never sum. to Parl.( b ) He was living June 1369 but d. soon afterwards. He m. firstly before 1361 Catharine. ( c ) He TO. secondly Joan,( c ) widow of Sir John de Mountfort, of Coleshill, co. Warwick, da. and h. of John Clinton, of Coleshill, afsd. He d. in or before 1370. His widow m. before 1371 Sir Henry Griffith and was living 1407. III. 1370? 3. Sir John Sutton, de jure, apparently, Lord Dudley or Sutton de Dudley, only s. and h. by 1st wife, b. 6 Dec. 1361, at Coleshill in Arden, co. Warwick, and lap. there. He likewise was never sum. to Parl.( b ) He m, firstly Alice, probably a da. of Philip Le Desi-encer, of Carlington, his Guardian. She d. (16 Hie. II.), 1392. He m. secondly Joan. ( ll ) He d. 10 March 1395/6. Inq. post mortem 12 April 1397 and 1401. His widow had livery of dower 23 May 1402. She died in Lent term 1408. Inq. post mortem 2 Nov. 1408. IV. 1396. 4- Sir John Sutton, dejurc, apparently, Lord Dudley or Sutton de Dudley, s. and h., 6. about 1380, being 17 in 1397 at the inquest on his father's death and 21 in 1401 at that on the death of his great grandmother Isabella, abovenamed, at whose demise he inherited Dudley Castle.^) He like his two predecessors was never sum. to Pari, as a Iiarou. He TO. before 10 Dec. 1401, Constance, da. of Sir Walter Blount, of Barton, co. Derby (slain 1402), by Donna Sanchia de Ayala, his wife. He d. 29 Aug. 1406, in his 26th year. Inq. post mortem 13 Sep. and 16 Nov. 1406. Hi3 widow d. Sep. 1132. Inq. post mortem 15 Oct. 1432. V. 1400. 5. John (Sutton, alias Dudley), Lord Dudley or Sutton de Dudley, s. and h., b. 25 Dec. 1400, and bap. at Barton under Needwood, co. Derby ; carried the Standard at the funeral of Henry V. in 1422 ; Lord Lieut. o£ Ireland, 1428-30 ; was in the wars with France ; and was sum. ( B ) "As a single writ of summons, without a proof of sitting under it, has been held not to constitute an hereditary dignity, it seems most probable in the event of the abeyance of this Barony being terminated, that it will be considered to have originated in the writ of summons to John Sutton in the 18 Hen. VI." See " Courthope." ( b ) The possession of the Castle of Dudley was from 1359 to 1397 vested in Isabella, widow of the first Lord. Mr. Grazebrook, in his valuable work (see p. 180, note " a "), considering "the Barony of Dudley, at this date, as a territorial dignity" holds that this possession " had a great deal to do with the issue or non-issue of a writ." This may be so, but it is to be noticed that John Sutton, who was sum. by writ in 1312, was, tho' in full possession of the Castle for seventeen years afterwards, never again summoned. See Sir H. Nicolas' observations on the writ of 16 Ed. III. p. 180, note »b.' ( c ) Beltz in his " Memorials of the Garter," p. 195, states his wife to have been Margaret, da. of Thomas (Beauchamp), Earl of Warwick, who d. 1401. See, however, Grazebrook's "Barons of Dudley," p. 59, note " 4." ( d ) He is Baid in Baker's '•Northamptonshire" and elsewhere to have m. firstly Joan, the mother of his heir, and secondly " Margaret, da. of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore," while Alice Le Despencer is given as afirstv/ile to his son, to whom Constance Blount is given as a second. The match with Mortimer is, however, not borne out by the pedigrees of that family.