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 48o DUDLEY given the reversion thereof in 1473. Chamberlain (jointly with the said Lord Dacre) to Elizabeth, the Queen Consort. He m. Elizabeth, widow of Edward (Cherleton), Lord Cherleton (who d. 14 Mar. 1420/1), da. of Sir John Berkeley, of Beverstone, co. Gloucester, by his ist wife, Eliza- beth, da. of Sir John Betteshorne. She d. shortly before 8 Dec. 1478, and was l>ur. in St. James's Priory, Dudley. He J. 30 Sep. 1487, in his 87th year, and was l>ur. there, his " goodly monument " being removed to St. Edmund's, Dudley. Will, as John Dudley, Knt., Lord Dudley, dat. 17 Aug. 1487, pr. 1487. Inq. p. m. Oct. and Nov. 1487. (*) II. 1487. 2. Edward (Sutton, or Dudley), Lord Dudley, grandson and h., being s. and h. of Sir Edmund Dudley, by his 1st wife, Joyce, sister (whose issue became h.) of John, Earl of Worcester, 3rd and yst. da. of John, Lord Tibetot, by his 2nd wife, Joyce, 2nd and yst. da. and coh. of Edward (Cherleton), Lord CherletoNjC*) which Sir Edmund Dudley was s. and h. ap. of the last Lord, but d. v.p., after 6 July 1483. He was b. about 1459, being aged 26 and more in Mar. 1485/6, when he was found cousin and coh. of Edward (Tibetot), Earl of Worcester. (■=) He was made K.B.C) 25 Nov. 1487, at the Coronation of (*) The historic Dudleys (Earls of Warwick, Queen Elizabeth's Earl of Leicester, ^c.) derive from his 2nd son, John Dudley, of Atherington, in Climping, Sussex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex 1484-85, who m. Elizabeth, da. and coh. of John Bramshot, Lord of the manors of Gatcombe, Calbourne, and Whitwell, in the Isle of Wight {d. 1468). His will as " Esquyer," dat. I Oct. 1500, was pr. 26 June 1501, and he was hur. under a costly monument in Arundel Church. That this John was father of Edmund Dudley and grandfather of John, the notorious Duke of Northumberland (as is positively stated by Sir Philip Sidney, their descendant, in his reply, circa 1584, to Leycester's Commonwealth), is proved {inter alia) by his own will, in which he mentions his brothers (i) William, late (1476-83) Bishop of Durham, deed., and (2) Oliver Dudley, deed., and by the will of the said Oliver, dat. 22 July and pr. 29 Nov. 1469, in which he is described as "Oliver de Dudley, son of the most noble Lord, Sir John Dudley, Knt." Edmund, moreover, inherited his mother's moiety of Gatcombe. The story of Erdeswick {Staffhrdshtre, edit. 1844, p. 338) that the Duke's grandfather was a carpenter in the employ of the monks of Lewes, who called him "John of Dudley" because he was born in Dudley town, seems to have been a mere invention prompted by spite, and occasioned by the unpopularity of this branch. Dugdale in his IFarwickshire (ed. 1765, p. 301) gives it some countenance, but in his Baronage unhesitatingly sets forth the descent of the Duke from John, Lord Dudley, K.G., as above. C") Through this alliance the quartering of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, yst. s. of Edward I, came, through the families of Holand, Cherleton, and Tibetot, to the Dudley family. ("=) Edward, 2nd Earl of Worcester, d. unm., 12 Aug. 1485, being only s. and h. of John, the ist Earl (beheaded, but not, apparently, attainted in 1470), who was only br. of Dame Joyce Dudley, mother of this Lord Dudley. Through this alliance the Lords Dudley became coheirs of the Baronies of Tibetot (1426) and of Cherleton (13 13); see vol. iii, p. 162, note "b,"5«i Cherleton. ('^) In 1489 the name of "the Lord of Dudley" appears among those to whom robes were given by the King. The date shows that these were given to him not as