John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (c. 1494 –1553), commonly known as Lord Quondam, was an English nobleman.
Cecily was a daughter of Sir William Willoughby and Joan Strangeways, and granddaughter of Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk.
Eleanor Sutton (wife of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, and Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane), Hon.
He was already very much in debt at this time,[3] he and his father having already borrowed money as early as 1512,[4] and immediately began to sell his patrimony, including half of Powis Castle.
There is much evidence in James Gairdner's Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII to suggest that Sutton's cousin, John Dudley, and Cromwell between them colluded to entangle Lord Dudley before the fact, and did not simply take advantage of him afterwards, as suggested by Dugdale's sources.
The truth is, I have little above twenty pound a year, (which I have by my lady my mother,) to find me and one of my daughters with a woman and a man to wait upon me; and surely, unless the good prioress of Nuneaton did give me meat and drink of free cost, to me and all mine that here remains with me, I could not tell what shift to make.
Over and besides that, whensoever any of my children comes hither to see me, they be welcome unto the prioress as long as they list to tarry, horsemeat and man's meat, and cost them nothing, with a piece of gold or two in their purses at their departure.
[10] In 1675, the historian, William Dugdale, wrote of Sutton's sale of Dudley Castle to his cousin: "It is reported by credible tradition of this John Lord Dudley, that being a man of weak understanding, whereby he had exposed himself to some wants, and so became entangled in the usurer's bonds, John Dudley, then Viscount Lisle and Earl of Warwick (afterwards Duke of Northumberland), thirsting after Dudley Castle, the chief seat of the family, made those money merchants his instruments to work him out of it, which by some mortgage being at length effected, this poor lord became exposed to the charity of his friends for a subsistence, and spending the remainder of his life in visits amongst them, was commonly called the Lord Quondam.
[14] Accounts of his funeral were given by the diarist Henry Machyn: "Sir John Dudley was buried at Westminster, Sept. 21st 1553, the backside of St. Margaret's.
His crest a blue lion's head standing upon a crown of gold"[15] And a transcript of a contemporary account published by John Strype in his Memorials: "Sir John Dudley, baron of Dudley, happening to die at Westminster, his obsequies were celebrated on the 21st of September, honourably; but with the odd, popish ceremonies; that is to say, priests and clerks going before and singing in Latin.
"[16]His cousin and nemesis John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland was executed on 22 August the same year, 1553, after plotting to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne.