On the morning of 17 August 1510, a large crowd gathered on Tower Hill, a large area of open land, overlooking the Tower of London, in anticipation of a double execution. One of the victims that had been led from his cell within the nearby Tower of London was Edmund Dudley, Henry VII's controversial chief financial agent, who had been sentenced to death, convicted on charges of constructive treason.

Edmund Dudley, an ambitious lawyer had led to his subsequent appointment within the king's Privy Council. Reflective of his growing-social status, widower Dudley had remarried; his bride was Elizabeth Grey, the daughter of Edward Grey, and his wife Elizabeth Talbot, daughter and heir of John Talbot, 1st Viscount Lisle - eldest son of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury from his second marriage to Margaret Beauchamp, the daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick.

On 03 March 1542, Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, died within the Tower of London, aged about eighty-years old, having been imprisoned there since May 1540.

After reading 'The House of Dudley' by Dr Joanne Paul (2022), which first introduced me to the one of the illustrations below, I was able to locate the full 'Codex' online. This manuscript documents the genealogy of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588). It was written in c.1572, likely on his appointment as lieutenant of the Order of the Garter.

Edmund Dudley, esq. was the grandson of John Dudley, 1st Baron Sutton - a courtier and diplomat, who after switching from the Lancastrian to the Yorkist cause during the Wars of the Roses, joined the court of Edward IV and was appointed as 'Constable of the Tower of London'.

After a few months of gathering information, images etc, and applying those final tweaks, I'm pleased to finally launch 'The Dudley...