Category:Dudley arms

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The de Sutton family (whose arms were Or, a lion rampant double-queued vert) inherited Dudley Castle, and the feudal barony of Dudley, by marriage to Margaret de Somery, daughter of Roger de Somery. The Sutton family then adopted the arms of Somery, formerly the arms of Paynel: Or, two lions passant in pale azure. These arms of Somery were borne in 1st and 4th quarters by by w:John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley (1400-1487), KG, whose second son Sir John Dudley, of Atherington, adopted the surname "Dudley" in lieu of his patronymic (Burke, 1884, p.303), and was the father of Edmund Dudley (minister of King Henry VII), whose son was John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, father of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, who in one portrait bears these arms of Somery in the first quarter, omitting entirely the usual arms of Dudley (Or, a lion rampant double-queued vert ("Sutton (ancient)"))

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