Biography of Henry Dudley 1531-1557

In 1525 [his father] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 21) and [his mother] Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland (age 16) were married. They had grown up together since John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland had become her father's ward. They were fourth cousin once removed.

Around 1531 Henry Dudley was born to [his father] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 27) and [his mother] Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland (age 22).

On 12th March 1542 [his father] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 38) was created 1st Viscount Lisle.

In 1547 [his father] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 43) was created 1st Earl Warwick.

Around 1549 [his brother] Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick (age 19) and [his sister-in-law] Anne Whorwood were married. He the son of [his father] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 45) and [his mother] Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland (age 40).

On 3rd June 1550 [his brother] John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick (age 23) and [his sister-in-law] Anne Seymour Countess of Warwick (age 12) were married at Sheen Palace [Map]. She the daughter of Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 50) and Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 53). He the son of [his father] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 46) and [his mother] Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland (age 41). They were fifth cousin once removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

On 4th June 1550 [his brother] Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester (age 17) and [his sister-in-law] Amy Robsart (age 17) were married at Sheen Palace [Map]. King Edward VI of England and Ireland (age 12) and William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (age 29) attended. He the son of [his father] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 46) and [his mother] Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland (age 41).

In 1553 [his brother] Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick (age 23) and [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Tailboys Countess Warwick (age 30) were married. She the daughter of Gilbert Tailboys 1st Baron Tailboys and Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount Baroness Clinton and Tailboys. He the son of [his father] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 49) and [his mother] Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland (age 44). They were half fourth cousin once removed.

In January 1553 [his brother] John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick (age 26) by writ of acceleration 2nd Earl Warwick through a summons to Parliament. [his sister-in-law] Anne Seymour Countess of Warwick (age 15) by marriage Countess Warwick.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 25th July 1553. The xxv day of July, the wyche was Saynt James, [there] cam in-to London, and so to the Towre, serten traturs; the first was doctur Sandes, a prest; and next hym ser Thomas Palmer, ser Hare Gattes, ser John Gattes, ser [his uncle] Andrew Dudley (age 46), lord H[are Dudley] (age 22), [his brother] lord Ambrose Dudlay (age 23), lord Hastynges, the erle of Huntingdon (age 39), the [his brother] erle of Warwyke (age 26), the [his father] duke of Northumber land (age 49) [attended by] iiij M1. men be-syd the garde with gettenes and trompeters, [and] with speres and gunnes to the Towre.

Before 22nd August 1553 Henry Dudley (age 22) and Margaret Audley Duchess Norfolk (age 13) were married. He the son of John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 49) and Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland (age 44). They were third cousin once removed.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 13th November 1553. [The 13th of November were arraigned at Guildhall doctor Cranmer (age 64), archbishop of Canterbury, the lord] [his brother] Gylfford Dudlay (age 18), the sune of the [his father] duke of Northumberland and my lade Jane (age 17) ys wyff, the doythur of the duke of Suffoke-Dassett (age 36), and the lord [his brother] Hambrosse Dudlay (age 23), [and the] lord Hare Dudlay (age 22), the wyche lade Jane was proclamyd [Queen]: they all v wher cast for to dee.

On 21st October 1554 [his brother] John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick (age 27) died at Penshurst Place, Kent [Map] not long after he had been released from the Tower of London.

On 26th December 1554 [his brother] Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick (age 24) was created 1st Baron Lisle. [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Tailboys Countess Warwick (age 32) by marriage Countess Warwick.

In 1555 [his mother] Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland (age 46) died.

In 1558 Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk (age 21) and [his former wife] Margaret Audley Duchess Norfolk (age 18) were married. She by marriage Duchess Norfolk, Countess Surrey. They were fourth cousins.

On 9th January 1564 [his former wife] Margaret Audley Duchess Norfolk (age 24) died at Norwich, Norfolk [Map] following the birth of her fourth child. She was initially buried at Church of St John the Baptist, Norwich [Map]. Her remains were moved to the Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham [Map].