John Sutton IV

Sir John de Sutton IV (6 December 1361 – 10 March 1396)^[1] is the 3rd Baron Sutton of Dudley,^[2] and heir of Dudley Castle. He was the son of Sir John de Sutton III, 2nd Lord of Dudley, and Katherine.^[3][1] At the time of his father's death, John IV was a minor whose wardship and marriage was granted to Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel.^[4] During the fifth year of Richard II of England,^[5] 350 marks^[6] was paid to Sir Philip le Spencer, Earl of Carlington, to be a guardian over John IV with the arrangement of marriage to his daughter, Alice.^[7] She died in 1392^[2][8] without issue. John married secondly to an unknown Joan^[9] (d. April 1408),^[2] by whom Sir John de Sutton V succeeded as heir.^[10]

References

Footnotes

1. Beall 2004, p. 85, #34.
2. Cokayne 1890, p. 182.
3. Katherine or Catherine (Salt 1888, p. 64).
4. Salt 1888, p. 60.
5. Burke 1866, p. 521.
6. A dowry of 350 marks was paid during the fifth year of Richard II of England which was in 1382, but Burke 1866, p. 521 mistakenly applied it to the 2nd Baron John who died 1376. "Dugdale and other geologists have confused him" with others (Salt 1888, p. 62).
7. Alice Spencer, or Alice de Spencer, or Alice Dispenser (Salt 1888, p. 64; Burke 1866, p. 521).
8. Salt 1888, pp. 60: See footnote (2).
9. Jane or Joan (Beall 2004, p. 85, #34), or Johanna (Burke 1866, p. 521) Not to be confused with Joan Clinton (Beall 2004, p. 85, #33), (Salt 1888, pp. 59-0).
10. Salt 1888, pp. 60,62.

Bibliography

• Beall, William Ryland; Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Kaleen E. Beall (2004). William Ryland Beall, ed. Ancestral Roots Of Certain American Colonists Who Came To America Before 1700. Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 85. ISBN 0806317523.
• Sir Bernard Burke (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison. p. 521.
• 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.