Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . before spoken of. This story, however, is of doubtful authenticity,though it was long believed. The discovery ofhis fathers will, says the writer of the Life con-tributed to the Dictionary of National Biography,• practically establishes his pretensions to descent fromthe great baronial family of Sutton alias Dudley,Accepting this view, we may, still following the Dictionary of National Biography, trace the Dudleypedigree from much earlier times. We begin with one John de Somery, Baron ofDudley, owner of the castle and lordshi
Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . before spoken of. This story, however, is of doubtful authenticity,though it was long believed. The discovery ofhis fathers will, says the writer of the Life con-tributed to the Dictionary of National Biography,• practically establishes his pretensions to descent fromthe great baronial family of Sutton alias Dudley,Accepting this view, we may, still following the Dictionary of National Biography, trace the Dudleypedigree from much earlier times. We begin with one John de Somery, Baron ofDudley, owner of the castle and lordship of Dudley,Staffordshire, which had been in his family since anancestor married, in Henry time, Hawyse, sisterand heiress of Gervase Paganell, who became Baronof Dudley in virtue of a writ of summons which wasissued on the meeting of each Parliament summonedbetween 1308 and 1322. His sister and co-heiress,Margaret, married one John de Sutton I. He hada son, John de Sutton II., who died in 1359. Theresucceeded, in lineal succession, John de Sutton III. 224. From a photograph by Charles Geajd THE MAIN GATEWAY AND PORTCULLIS, WARWICK CASTLE. VOL. L Warwick Castle ^ who was dead in (370 ; John de Sutton IV., whodied in 1396; John de Sutton V., who died in 1406;and John de Sutton VI. John de Sutton II. was summoned to sit in Parlia-ment by a writ of February 25th, 1341-42, in whichhe is described as Johannes de Sutton de Duddeley;but the Suttons III., IV., and V. did not receive thishonour. The sixth John de Sutton did, the writ ofFebruary 15th, 1439, entithng him Johannes Suttonde Dudley. Hence he is generally regarded, byDugdale and other authorities, as the first BaronDudley of the Sutton family. The title continued tobe borne, and the writs of summons continued to bereceived, until the line failed by the death of the fifthbaron, who had survived his heir, and only left illegiti-mate male posterity, on June 23rd, 1643. This first Baron Dudley was a man of someconsiderable
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