Background
Edward Sutton was the son of Sir Edmund Sutton and Joyce de Tiptoft, daughter of Sir John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft.
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Edward Sutton was the son of Sir Edmund Sutton and Joyce de Tiptoft, daughter of Sir John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft.
He was one of the English noblemen elected as Knight of the Garter (Knight of the Order of the Garter) in the beginning of King Henry VIII"s reign. He was chamberlain to Princess Mary (later Queen Mary I) from 1525 to 1528. Edward married Cecily Willoughby, granddaughter of Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk, by whom he had:
John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley, his successor.
Thomas Sutton.
Arthur Dudley, prebendary in Lichfield Cathedral (see Chad of Mercia#Cult and Relics). Elizabeth Sutton, who married Thomas Butler, son of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond. Alice Sutton. Eleanor Sutton, who married firstly Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, and secondly Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane.
Joyce Sutton, who married Sir John Leighton of Wattlesborough.
Jane (Joan, Johanna) Sutton, who married Sir Thomas Fiennes, son of Thomas, Baron Dacre. Their son Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre was executed for murder in 1541.
Margaret Sutton, who married John Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Powis. Catherine Sutton, who married Sir George Gresley of Drakelow.
