Curated category
Dudley family
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of NorthumberlandJohn Dudley was seven years old when his father, Edmund Dudley, was executed for high treason in 1510. The new king, Henry VIII, needed scapegoats for the…
- Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of LeicesterOn the 6th of July 1553, King Edward VI died and Robert Dudley led a force of three hundred men into Norfolk. He sought to stop Mary I from taking the…
- Lady Jane GreyJane Grey sat in the presence of her father or mother, speaking, keeping silence, sitting, standing, going, eating, drinking, merrily or sadly.
- Edmund DudleyEdmund Dudley was born around 1462 or perhaps in 1471. His father Sir John Dudley lived at Atherington in West Sussex. The boy grew up as the grandson of…