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JOHN DUDLEY 1ST DUKE NORTHUMBERLAND AND EARL OF WARWICK

JOHN DUDLEY 1ST DUKE NORTHUMBERLAND

TIME-LINE AND ADDITIONAL FACTS ON JOHN DUDLEY THE 1ST DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND EARL OF WARWICK. JOHN CLIMBED THE LADDER TO LORD PRESIDENT OF THE KING EDWARD VI COUNCIL TO FALL FROM GRACE WITH HIS POLITICAL AMBITIONS OF PLACING THE LADY JANE GREY ON THE THRONE OF ENGLAND

TIME-LINE OF  JOHN DUDLEY

DATE                                EVENT
 
1504
  • John Dudley was born, the eldest of three sons of Edmund Dudley and Elizabeth Grey
1507
  • Sir Andrew Dudley, John’s younger brother is born.
1510
  • 17TH AUGUST Edmund Dudley, John’s father was executed in the Tower London, for treason.
1511
  • John’s mother Elizabeth married again for the third time to Arthur Plantagenet, the illegitimate son of King Edward IV and his mistress Elizabeth Wayte
  • John becomes the ward of Edward Guildford. Edward Guildford is the father of his future wife Jane.
1523
  • John was knighted by Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk after serving in French campaign under Guildford.
1524
  • John became a Knight of the Body
1525
  • John married Jane Guildford
1526
  • Elizabeth Grey, john’s mother died
1527
  • John Dudley is born, John’s third son.
  • John accompanied Thomas Wolsey to France.
1530
  • Ambrose Dudley is born, John’s fourth son
1532
1533
  • 1ST JUNE John is cup bearer at the coronation of queen Anne Boleyn
1534
  • John was responsible for the King' Henry VIII body armour as Master of the Tower Armoury.
  • Sir Edward Guildford died , John’s father-in-law without a written will.
1535
  • John is Master of the Tower Armoury 1535–1544
  • Guildford Dudley is born, John’s sixth son.
1538
  • Katherine Dudley is born, John’s youngest daughter.
1540
1542
  • 12TH MARCH King Henry VIII granted John the title, 1st Viscount Lisle, "by the right of his mother
  • John served as Warden of the Scottish Marches,
1543
  • John is made Lord Admiral and a Knight of the Garter
1544
  • John is Governor of Boulogne 1544–1545
1545
  • 18TH-19TH JULY John is at the Battle of the Solent, Part of the Italian War of 1542–46. Location Solent channel, off the south coast of England Result Inconclusive
1546
  • John went to France for peace negotiations
1547
  • 28TH JANUARY King Henry VIII  of England is dead and now his son Edward VI is king of all England.
  • John is one of the sixteen Executors of the Will of the late Henry VIII of England. The Duke of Somerset, Edward Seymour, King Edward’s uncle is regent for the boy king.
  • John is created Earl of Warwick
  • John is now Lord Great Chamberlain (1447-50)
  • 10TH SEPTEMBER John is present at The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, Part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars Location Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland Result Decisive English victory
1549
  • OCTOBER Edward Seymour’s Lord protector to the king, fall from power as he is arrested and brought before the king.
1550
  • FEBRUARY John is now President of the Kings council and in the position of Lord Protector to King Edward VI and Grand Master of the Household
1552
  • 22ND JANAURY Edward Seymour, who had been Lord protector is Executed for felony
  • John is now Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1552–1553
1553
  • JANUARY KingEdward VI starts becoming very ill.
  • 21ST MAY John’s son Guildford married The Lady Jane Grey at Durham house. John’s daughter Katherine was matched with Henry Hastings
  • JUNE King Edward VI changed the line of Succession, he taken out both his half sisters, Mary and Elizabeth. He also by- passed his cousin Francis Brandon, the daughter of Mary Tudor who his father Henry VIII sister. Edward put Francis, eldest daughter The Lady Jane Grey next in line to himself. Starting the Lady Jane Grey and her heirs. King Edward personally supervised the copying of his will
  • 6TH JULY King Edward VI of England is dead
  • 9TH JULY The Lady Jane Grey is Queen of England
  • 19TH JULY The Lady Jane Grey is deposed and imprisoned along with her husband and Now Mary Tudor, is Queen of England
  • 20TH JULY John is arrested along with his sons.
  • 25TH JULY John rode through the City of London to the Tower, with his guards struggling to protect him against the hostile populace
  • 18TH AUGUST John’s trial at Westminster Hall. John Dudley was found guilty of treason and condemned to death
  • John wrote a desperate letter to the Earl of Arundel, begging him to intercede with the Queen on his behalf, but Mary did not spare him.
  • 22ND AUGUST John was first escorted on the day of his execution to St Peter ad Vincula, where he took the Catholic communion and professed that "the plagues that is upon the realm and upon us now is that we have erred from the faith these sixteen years." Then after at 9am taken to his place of Execution.
  • John Dudley is executed at Tower London for High Treason.
John Dudley was buried in Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower London.
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EXTRA FACTS ON JOHN DUDLEY

  • John Dudley, was the 1st Duke of Northumberland, Earl of Warwick and Viscount Lisle as well as, Lord President of the King Edward VI Council
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  • John Lived under five Tudor Monarchs, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey and Mary 1st of England. John did grew-up in the royal courts of England.
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  • John’s mother Elizabeth Grey was a niece to Queen consort Elizabeth Woodville, through the Queen’s first marriage to John Grey of Groby.
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  • John had two brothers and one half-sister, his sister was from his father’s first marriage. Jerome John’s youngest brother destined for the Church by his father, was mentally or physically incapacitated.
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  • John and his wife Jane Guildford had thirteen children. Only seven survived to adult hood. Among these children were Robert Dudley, who was the future known Queen Elizabeth 1st favourite and Guildford Dudley who was the husband of the Lady Jane Grey (Nine day Queen), Ambrose Dudley became the 3rd Earl of Warwick. John had all his children educated in Renaissance humanism and science.
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  • Jane Dudley, John’s wife served as a lady-in-waiting to two of Henry VIII of England’s wives, Anne Boleyn, and later to Anne of Cleves
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  • In 1534 Edward Guildford, John’s wife’s father died without leaving a will. His only son said it him who should inherit all, however John and his wife contested and went to court on this issue and won the case.
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  • It was noted in a French report that John was skilled at wrestling, archery, and the tournaments of the royal court. John was also a military man, he fought in many battles including the Italian wars and in wars of Rough wooing.
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  • When Edward Seymour Lord Protector to King Edward VI fell from Grace, John rose further, John replaced Seymour’s role but under the title Lord President of the Council. John also took care of the young Kings Education, trying to prepare him for when he would come into his own governorship when of age.
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  • In the Summer of 1553, John’s placed the Lady Jane Grey on the throne, this was the start to a disastrous end to his career. John did not envisage, that the majority of people may feel more strongly for a legitimate catholic monarch who was heir to the throne, than The lady Jane Grey who was in truth, not as close in line but protestant. When news came to him that the privy council had changed sides and supported Mary Tudor, John voluntary gave himself up without a fight. Jane Dudley, John’s wife wrote letters to Queen Mary begging for her husband and sons lives, her pleas for her husband John Fell on deaf ears. John Dudley was executed under Mary 1st of England, for being one of the main leaders in the plot to place the Lady Jane Grey on the English Throne. He abandoned his Protestant faith and turned to Catholicism prior to his execution maybe hoping to be saved from death, which failed. The rest of his family were spared the death sentence apart from Guildford his son.

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