John Sutton III

Sir John de Sutton III (1339 – c. 1370)^[1] was the 2nd Baron Sutton of Dudley^[2] and heir of Dudley Castle. He was the son of Sir John de Sutton II, the first Lord of Dudley, and Isabella de Cherleton.^[3] John III married twice,^[4] with the first on 25 December 1357 to Katherine de Stafford^[5] (1340/8 – December 1361), daughter of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford and Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley. After 1361, he married secondly to Joan,^[6] daughter of Sir John de Clinton of Coleshill.^[7]

By Katherine, Sir John de Sutton IV became successor.^[8]

References

Footnotes

1. Beall et al. 2004, p. 85, #33.
2. Cokayne 1890, p. 182.
3. Beall et al. 2004, p. 85.
4. Some genealogists such as Burke 1866, p. 521, Blore and Baker have assigned Margaret daughter of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore as a wife to either the 2nd or 3rd Baron John Sutton. However, according to Salt, 1888 these assignments are an error upon which no authority is provided (Wrottesley & Grazebrook 1888, p. 60: See footnote (2)).
5. Katherine or Catherine (Wrottesley & Grazebrook 1888, p. 60)
6. Wrottesley & Grazebrook 1888, pp. 59–0.
7. Beall et al. 2004, p. 85 #33.
8. Wrottesley & Grazebrook 1888, pp. 59.

Bibliography

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• Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1890). George Edward Cokayne (ed.). Complete Peerage of England, Vol. 3. G. Bell & sons. p. 182.
• Wrottesley, George; Grazebrook, Henry Sydney, eds. (1888). Collections for a history of Staffordshire, Vol. 9. Houghton and Hammond.