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- Edmund Dudley (c. 1462 or 1471/1472 – 17 August 1510) was an English administrator and a financial agent of King Henry VII. He served as a leading member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons and President of the King's Council.
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Edmund Dudley (c. 1462 [1] or 1471/1472 [2] – 17 August 1510) was an English administrator and a financial agent of King Henry VII. He served as a leading member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons and President of the King's Council.
Edmund Dudley was a minister of King Henry VII of England and author of a political allegory, The Tree of Commonwealth (1509). In 1506 Dudley was “president of the king’s council,” a small body of lawyers and fiscal administrators that helped reestablish the payment of feudal dues and of fines for.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Edmund Dudley, (c.1462–1510) Dudley was educated at Oxford, and pursued a career as a lawyer. He specialised in the prerogative rights of the king, which qualified him very well for Henry VII’s purposes. He was elected to parliament in 1491–2, and again in 1495 as knight of the shire for Sussex.
Sep 19, 2016 · On the morning of 17th August 1510, Edmund Dudley – notorious minister, lawyer, and general agent of King Henry VII – made his way to Tower Hill in London to be beheaded. No account of the execution itself survives, though one can imagine the anticipation and satisfaction with which the crowd witnessed the death of a man who had allegedly ...
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On Edward VI’s accession John Dudley was made Earl of Warwick, a position that recalled the powerful earls of the previous century, including Warwick the Kingmaker, who had determined so much of the dynastic conflict of the Wars of the Roses. Like the earls of old, John was a military force that could be called upon to enforce, or undermine, a regi...
Just four years into Elizabeth I’s reign, in October 1562 the court found itself at the bedside of a monarch once again, unsure whether it would soon be another royal deathbed. The queen had contracted smallpox, and there was every chance she would not recover. As her ministers met and pondered the succession, Elizabeth’s lady, Mary Sidney, born Ma...
- Elinor Evans
Edmund Dudley, along with King Henry VII and Richard Empson. The Duke of Rutland. Father of John Dudley, grandfather of Robert, Ambrose, Guildford, etc. Was a minister of Henry VII, where he became unpopular and was impeached and executed early in Henry VIII 's reign.
May 25, 2006 · But there was an outcry against the sometimes nefarious use of bonds after Henry VII's death in 1509, and two of the most visible exponents of these activities, Sir Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley, esquire, were arrested, charged, on dubious grounds, with constructive treason and executed a year later.
