Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley

Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley,KG[1] (c. 1460 – 31 January 1531) was an English nobleman created a Knight of the Garter (KG) in the beginning of King Henry VIII's reign.

His aunt, Eleanor Dudley,[4] married Sir Henry Beaumont of Wednesbury,[4] and George Stanley,[4] of West Bromwich and High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1473.

[5] The book A Declaration Made by the Prynce of Conde (1662) was published in his name by the publishing opperarion of Geneva Bible publisher Sir Rowland Hill[6] In 1487, upon the death of his grandfather, John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, he inherited the barony of Dudley, which had been created for him in 1440, ten years after he had served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Edward married Cecily Willoughby, [1] daughter of Sir William Willoughby and Joan Strangeways, and granddaughter of Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk, by whom he had:[2] Through his daughter Joyce's first marriage, he was a grandfather of Sir Edward Leighton, was custos rotulorum for Shropshire, and Sir Thomas Leighton, the Governor of Jersey who married Elizabeth Knollys (a daughter of Catherine Carey and sister of Lettice Knollys).

Through his daughter Jane, he was a grandfather of Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre, who was executed for murder in 1541.