Sir Edward was born around 1515 and was the eldest child and heir of John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley and Lady Cicely Grey, daughter of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset; and the paternal grandson of Edmund Sutton, Knight of Dudley Castle and Baron Tibertot and Cherleton and maternal great-grandson of Elizabeth Woodville, former Queen consort of England.
[2] He wrote to the Earl of Shrewsbury from Hume on 11 September 1547 about the capture of the English Berwick Pursuivant, Henry Ray, and signed the letter "E.
[4] At the end of the war, on 28 March 1550, the Earl of Shrewsbury was asked by the Privy Council to organise his release by the exchange of French hostages to the value of £200.
[5] On the 17th of September 1553, Sutton succeeded his father (known as the "Lord Quondam" that is 'Lord Formerly') as Baron Dudley, and on the 2nd of October 1553, Sir Edward was knighted by Queen Mary I.
[1] After an early unsuccessful marriage proposal to a widow,[1] a certain Anne, lady Berkeley,[7] Sir Edward was married three times and had three children: 1.
Catherine Brydges (m. 1556, d.1566), a Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Mary,[8] and the daughter of John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos and Elizabeth (née Grey) of Wilton;[9] they had one child: Queen Mary settled upon Edward and Catherine and their heirs the "... lordships of Sedgley, Himley and Swinford, the hays, forests and chases of Ashwood and Chaspell, and the lands called Willingsworth, in Sedgley, with divers lands and tenements in Himley, Wombourne and Swindon."
[15] Anne's maternal aunt, Mary Brydges, was married to George Throckmorton, John's brother and Francis' uncle.
[16] After Francis was executed for treason in 1584, Anne married the Oxford educated barrister and member of Lincoln's Inn Thomas Wylmer Esq.