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DUDLEY, EDMUND (c. 1462—1510)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 636 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUDLEY, See also:EDMUND (c. 1462—1510) ,, See also:minister of See also:Henry VII. of See also:England, was a son of See also:John Dudley of Atherington, See also:Sussex, and a member of the See also:great baronial See also:family of See also:Sutton or Dudley. After studying at See also:Oxford and at See also:Gray's See also:Inn, Dudley came under the See also:notice of Henry VII., and is said to have been made a privy councillor at the See also:early See also:age of twenty-three. In 1492 he helped to negotiate the treaty of Etaples with See also:France and soon became prominent in assisting the See also:king to check the lawlessness of the barons, and at the same See also:time to, replenish his own ex-chequer., He and his colleague See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Empson (q.v.) are called fcales judices by Polydore Vergil, and owing to their extortions they became very unpopular. Dudley, who was See also:speaker of the See also:House of See also:Commons in 1504, in addition to aiding Henry, amassed a great amount of See also:wealth for himself, and possessed large estates in Sussex, See also:Dorset and See also:Lincolnshire. When Henry VII. died in See also:April 1509, he was thrown into See also:prison by See also:order of Henry VIII. and charged with the See also:crime of constructive See also:treason, being found guilty and attainted. After having made a futile See also:attempt to See also:escape from prison, he was executed on the 17th or 18th of See also:August 1510. Dudley's nominal crime was that during the last illness of Henry VII. he had ordered his See also:friends to assemble in arms in See also:case the king died, but the real See also:reason for his See also:death was doubtless the unpopularity caused by his avarice. During his imprisonment he sought to gain the favour of Henry VIII. by See also:writing a See also:treatise in support of See also:absolute See also:monarchy called The See also:Tree of See also:Commonwealth. This never reached the king's hands, and was not published until 1859, when it was printed privately in See also:Manchester. Dudley's first wife was See also:Anne, widow of See also:Roger See also:Corbet of See also:Morton, See also:Shropshire, by whom he had a daughter, See also:Elizabeth, who married See also:William, 6th See also:Lord Stourton. By his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of See also:Edward See also:Grey; See also:Viscount See also:Lisle, he had three sons: John, afterwards See also:duke of See also:Northumberland (q.v.); See also:Andrew (d.

1559), who was made a See also:

knight and held various important posts during the reign of Edward VI.; and See also:Jasper. See See also:Francis See also:Bacon, See also:History of Henry VII., edited by J. R. Lumby (See also:Cambridge, 1881) ; and J. S. See also:Brewer, The Reign of Henry VIII., edited by J. See also:Gairdner (See also:London, 1884).

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