Elizabeth Whorwood

• Elizabeth Whorwood1
• F, #9738
• Last Edited=22 Oct 2009
• Elizabeth Whorwood is the daughter of Thomas Whorwood and Magdalen Edwards.1,2 She married John Dudley, son of Edward Sutton, 4th Lord Dudley and Lady Jane Stanley.1
• Her married name became Dudley.1
• Child of Elizabeth Whorwood and John Dudley
  • 1.Anne Dudley1
• Citations
• 1.[S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 1192. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• 2.[S4870] Eric Whorwood, "re: Bowyer Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 30 August 2010. Hereinafter cited as "re: Bowyer Family."
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p974.htm#i9738 __________________________
• John SUTTON of Compton
• Born: ABT 1530, Compton,,England
• Father: Edward SUTTON (4° B. Sutton of Dudley)
• Mother: Jane STANLEY (B. Sutton of Dudley)
• Married: Elizabeth WHORWOOD (dau. of Thomas Whorwood and Elizabeth Sutton) ABT 1550
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/SUTTON.htm#John SUTTON of Compton1 _________________________
• Sir Thomas Whorwood (1544-1616) was a Staffordshire landowner, Member of the English Parliament and High Sheriff of Staffordshire. He became notorious for his involvement in election fraud.
• The family's surname had originally been Horewood, but by this time normally spelt Whorwood, taking their name from a small manor in Horewood, later known as Compton Hallows in Kinver, but in 1387 as Haulowe, probably from its late 14th century owners or overlords. Whorwood was the first son of Edward Whorwood of Compton Hallows and of Dorothy Bassett, daughter of Thomas Bassett of Hints. He was the great nephew of the great lawyer Sir William Whorwood, half of whose property he inherited.
• Whorwood ultimately had several properties in Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire, in addition to his ancestral estate.[1] Some of these were derived from Sir William Whorwood, whose elder daughter Anne Whorwood, Countess of Warwick had died in 1552. Her husband, Ambrose Dudley, had a life interest in her estates, but when he died in 1590, they passed to Thomas Whorwood.[2] The other daughter Margaret married the recusant Thomas Throckmorton of Coughton, Warwickshire. Throckmorton's estates were frequently sequestrated because of his religious principles. In 1578 he and Whorwood partitioned William's inheritance. By this means Thomas Whorwood acquired the manors of Stourton and Kinver, Broome, Dunsley (in Kinver) and Tyrley on the Staffordshire-Shropshire border, but several of these were subject to the dower of William's widow Margaret Sheldon until her death in 1589.[3][4]
• Thus Whorwood became considerably richer when his inheritance from his great uncle came into possession in 1590. At that point he moved to Stourton Castle, where he built a new family home.
• Whorwood was elected one of the two knights of the shire for Staffordshire in the Parliament of 1572. His colleague was John Fleetwood,[5] a rich landowner who had made a fortune from the dissolution of the monasteries.[6] The parliament technically lasted for almost twelve years, as the next was summoned in 1584, although it actually met for only three widely spaced sessions. Whorwood's only known contribution came on 25 January 1572, when he spoke in favour of keeping the assizes at Stafford.
• Now that he was better-known, and especially as he began to come into property, Whorwood was appointed to public offices. About 1573 he was made a justice of the peace for Staffordshire.[2] In 1574 he was pricked to become High Sheriff of Staffordshire, a post of honour, but also onerous and often expensive. However, Whorwood was known to be of very conservative religious views and was probably suspected of being a Catholic sympathiser.[5] Certainly he had close Catholic connections within his family. His election in 1572, sharing the county with Fleetwood, known to be decidedly Protestant, may have been because of the backing of a conservative clique among the Staffordshire landed gentry. This faction, centred on the Harcourts of Ellenhall and Ranton Abbey and their kinsmen, the Astons and the Greys of Enville, Staffordshire had great influence in the county and, although slowly losing their grip, were still a force to be reckoned with. William Whorwood had married into the Grey family. The conservative group were described by Thomas Bentham, the radical Protestant Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, as "a knot hurtful to justice and great maintainers", i.e. magnates who had a large following whom they maintained through employment or tenancies. It was probably because of these associations that Whorwood lost his place on the commission of the peace in 1580[2] and for some years his public career was in eclipse.
• About 1590, Whorwood's daughter Elizabeth married John Sutton or Dudley, brother of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley.[7] Apparently this was a runaway marriage. Sutton was the son and brother of peers, but the family was generally in debt. He was supposed, under the terms of his father's will, to receive an annuity of £300, but his brother was unable to pay it. As a result, he was forced to live with the Whorwoods at Compton Hallows. A connection with the nobility, however impoverished, was still a social advantage to the Whorwood. At about the same time as the marriage the death of Ambrose Dudley, a very distant kinsman of his son-in-law soon after that of William Whorwood's widow, brought Thomas into his greatest inheritance. In all his years in the shade, he was never actually accused of any disloyalty to the Crown or the Church of England. During the 1590s, his prestige began to rise again. From 1596 he was back on the commission of the peace for Staffordshire, and in the same year he was pricked Sheriff again.
• However, Whorwood was now drawn into the Dudley family's violent and unscrupulous dealings, to his own detriment. The Dudleys had long been at odds with the Lytteltons, the Worcestershire branch of a family descended from the great jurist Thomas de Littleton. Lord Dudley and Gilbert Lyttelton became embroiled in a bitter dispute over ownership of Prestwood,[8] a Staffordshire farm near Whorwood's Stourton Castle, near Kinver. The dispute escalated to violence on both sides. After a cattle raid by Dudley, Lyttelton had him brought him before the Star Chamber, which fined him heavily. In order to smear Dudley, Lyttelton pointed out that he did not maintain his wife and children, choosing instead to live with his mistress, Elizabeth Tomlinson, a coal miner's daughter. The Privy Council then intervened and in August 1597 confined Dudley in the Fleet Prison until he promised to contribute to their upkeep. On his release, he not only fell rapidly into arrears, but immediately embarked on a course of further confrontation with the Lytteltons. Part of Dudley's revenge was to intervene in the 1597 parliamentary elections. By supporting the candidature of his brother John in Staffordshire, Dudley could hope to repair some of the fractures in his own family, opening up a fresh route to profit for his impecunious brother, while damaging the interests of his enemies, as Sir Edward Littleton of Pillaton Hall, a kinsman of Gilbert, had already entered the contest. Dudley was counting on the help of Whorwood, as Sheriff and therefore returning officer in the election.
• The Dudley campaign was directed specifically against Littleton,[5] who was an ally and client of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, a major force not only in the county but at Court. On the day of the election, 6 October 1597, Whorwood, supposedly neutral, rallied the Dudley supporters on one side of the market square in Stafford. It was later alleged that Whorwood used his authority as Sheriff to release Catholic recusants from the county gaol and allowed them and their wives to vote. He certainly permitted Edward Lord Dudley, a peer to add his voice to his brother's vote. When the voice vote went against Dudley, with Littleton and Sir Christopher Blount, another Essex ally, well ahead of John Sutton, Whorwood marched the Dudley supporters around the town centre, shouting, "A Dudley!" To make sure of his victory, Littleton demanded that Whorwood conduct a poll. This he began, but stopped when Dudley assured him he would protect him from the consequences. He then went off to dine. He had already furnished an electoral indenture, complete with seals and the names of witnesses, but with the names of the successful candidates left blank. These were then filled in as Sutton and Blount, in order of precedence. Thus Littleton was simply excluded by blatant fraud.
• Littleton immediately appealed to the Star Chamber, proceeding against both the Suttons and Whorwood. It seems that he later allowed the complaints against the brothers to lapse, while pursuing Whorwood, who had behaved "in very indecent and outrageous manner". Lettice Knollys, the Countess of Leicester, who was Blount's wife and the mother of Essex, wrote to Essex, complaining of the indignity of her husband being ranked lower in precedence than Sutton, and wishing that the Sheriff should be made to pay for his behaviour. The letter seems to have won Lord Dudley another Privy Council appearance. The outcome of the Star Chamber proceedings is not known: it is unlikely Whorwood escaped punishment. He never again occupied major office. Nevertheless he was knightd in 1603.
• Sir Thomas Whorwood died on 2 November 1616. He was succeeded in his estates by his son, Gerard.
• Thomas Whorwood married Magdalene Edwards, daughter of Rowland Edwards of London, no later than 1563.[2] They had at least one daughter and one son:
  • Elizabeth Whorwood, who married John Dudley or Sutton, Baron Dudley's brother.
  • Gerard Whorwood (1565-1627), the heir to the estates.[9]
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Whorwood ___________________________
• Hon. John Dudley (November 1569 – 1645), formally John Sutton otherwise Dudley, was the brother of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley and was briefly Member of the Parliament of England for Staffordshire.[1] during the reign of Elizabeth I.
• John Dudley was the son of Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley. His mother was Jane Stanley, who was a daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby and the 4th Baron's second wife. John Dudley was their second son, born about two years after his brother Edward, who became the 5th Baron. He was baptised on 30 November 1569, so born shortly before that date. At the very early age of 11, he was sent to Lincoln College, Oxford.
• The 4th Baron was able to recover the family estates after they were obtained, as a result of debt, by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland a distant relative, and forfeited to the Crown on Northumberland's execution in 1553. However, he was unable to make progress with the huge outstanding debts. In order to ensure creditors were paid by his heir, his will earmarked the proceeds of his coalmines for 21 years to his creditors, who were also given prior claim over his wife and over John. When the 4th Baron died in 1586, John received only his father's best clothes and £300, with an annuity to be paid by his brother, but no house or land. As late as 1592 John had never received his annuity.
• In about 1590 John married Elizabeth Whorwood, daughter of a Thomas Whorwood, a wealthy Staffordshire landowner and politician, apparently against the wishes of Edward, the head of the family. He settled at the Whorwood family seat, Compton Hallows, near Kinver, with his new wife. Thomas Whorwood received a large inheritance at that point and began to build a new family home at Stourton Castle. John is therefore referred to as "Hon. John Dudley of Compton Hallows", as it seems he and Elizabeth retained the old family home. Having no freehold property of his own, he was not entitled either to stand or to vote in parliamentary elections for the county.
• John Dudley's election to parliament came about as a result of the notorious Staffordshire election scandal of 1597.[2] Baron Dudley prevailed on Whorwood, John's father-in-law, and at that time High Sheriff of Staffordshire, to conspire in the return of a false electoral indenture. He was placed, as John Sutton, first in order of precedence over Sir Christopher Blount, step-father of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. Edward Littleton, another Essex client, who had clearly won a seat in the voice vote, was excluded altogether.
• John Dudley thus became knight of the shire or MP, although Littleton launched actions against him, his brother and Whorwood in the Star Chamber, the most feared instrument of Tudor government. John was protected by parliamentary privilege[2] during the parliament and it assembled on 24 October 1597. However, he played no recorded part in its proceedings, making no speech and attending none of the committees consistent with being a Staffordshire county member.[1] The parliament was dissolved, after little more than three months, on 9 February 1598, leaving Dudley exposed to investigation and punishment. By May Essex had him answering questions before the Privy Council.[2]
• Lord Dudley's main motivation in standing his brother for election had been to spite Littleton's relatives in Worcestershire, particularly Gilbert Lyttelton, with whom he had several property disputes. Two of Lyttelton's sons, Stephen and John, attacked John Dudley in revenge for the electoral fraud, probably in June or July, and were referred by the Privy Council to the Worcestershire assizes. It is not known whether John Dudley himself was punished for his part in events, but he played no further part in public life, retiring to Compton.[1]
• John Dudley married Elizabeth Whorwood, daughter of Thomas Whorwood by 1590. They had one son, who predeceased them both, and three daughters.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dudley_(1569-1645) __________________________
• DUDLEY, alias SUTTON, John (1569-1645), of Compton Hallows, Staffs.
• bap. 30 Nov. 1569, 2nd s. of Edward, 4th Lord Dudley alias Sutton by his 2nd w., and bro. of Edward Dudley alias Sutton†. educ. Lincoln, Oxf. 1580. m. by 1591, Elizabeth, o. da. of Thomas Whorwood of Compton Hallows, 1s. d.v.p. 3da.
• Dudley was the younger son of a bankrupt peer, his inheritance being limited to his father’s ‘chiefest apparell’, £300 and an annuity which, in the event, his elder brother was unable to pay. He made a runaway marriage, yet had to reside at his father-in-law’s house, never achieved the commission of the peace, and his one election to the Commons, for a county where he possessed no freehold property, was an arrant job on the part of his father-in-law, who was sheriff at the time. Dudley’s name does not appear in the records of the House, but as knight for Staffordshire in 1597 he was eligible to attend committees concerning enclosures (5 Nov.), the poor law (5, 22 Nov.), armour and weapons (8 Nov.), penal laws (8 Nov.), monopolies (10 Nov.) and the subsidy (15 Nov.).1
• After 1598 Dudley played no part in public affairs. He died in 1645.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/du... ______________________
• WHORWOOD (HORWOOD), Thomas (1544-1616), of Compton Hallows, Staffs.
• b. 1544, 1st s. of Edward Whorwood of Compton Hallows by Dorothy, da. of Thomas Bassett of Hintes. m. bef. 1563, Magdalene, da. of Rowland Edwards of London, at least 1s. 1da. suc. to estate of his fa.’s 1st cos. Lady Ambrose Dudley, da. of William Whorwood†. Kntd. by 1614.
• Whorwood had considerable estates in Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire, one of which, Tyrley, Staffordshire, he acquired from Thomas Throckmorton, a Catholic, who was often imprisoned and his estate under sequestration. Throckmorton had married Whorwood’s sister Margaret, and it is possible that Whorwood himself had Catholic sympathies, which might account for his being left off the commission of the peace between 1580 and 1596.1
• However this may be, Whorwood was elected knight of the shire for the Parliament of 1572, during which his only recorded intervention was on 25 Jan. 1572 in favour of a bill to keep the assizes at Stafford, his name being entered as ‘Lockwoode’. As sheriff at the 1597 election Whorwood behaved ‘in very indecent and outrageous manner’ to obtain the return of his son-in-law John Dudley aliasSutton. When the defeated candidate brought a Star Chamber case against Whorwood, it is significant that one of the charges against him was that he released recusants, men and women, from Stafford gaol to vote at the election.2
• Whorwood died 2 Nov. 1616.3
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/wh... __________________________
• 'Whorwood1'
• Commoners (vol 3, Harwood of Hagbourn and Streatley) suggests that Whorwood is a variation of Harwood, Herward and Horwode. We have Harwood1 to cover a family which took that name and hope to find a connection between this page and that one.
• John Whorwood of Compton, Staffordshire
  • 1. John Whorwood of Compton
  • m. Elizabeth Corbyn (dau of Richard Corbyn of Corbyn Hall (Corbin of Corbin Hall))
    • A. John Whorwood 'of Compton'
    • m. Joyce Grey (dau of Sir Edward Grey)
      • i. Edward Whorwood of Compton (2nd son)
      • m. Dorothy Bassett (dau of Thomas Bassett of Hintes or Hynts)
        • a. Thomas Whorwood of Compton (a 1583)
        • m. Magdalen Edwardes (dau of Rowland Edwardes of London)
          • (1) Gerard Whorwood ('of Sturton Castle?) (b c1565, a 1614)
          • m. Dorothy Barbour (dau/heir of Edward Barbour of Flotesbrooke)
          • Visitation ends with this generation, mentioning only a son, John (a 1614). VCH (Worcestershire, vol 3, Parish of Broom) identifies the undermentioned Wortley as great-great-grandson of Thomas, cousin of Anne, dau of Sir William the Attorney General (see below). That would fit if this Gerard was 'of Sturton Castle' - which is confirmed by the cross-reference from his wife's family's records which identifies him as "of Stourton Castle".
            • (A) John Whorwood ..... etc.
          • (2) Elizabeth Whorwood
      • ii. Robert Whorwood of Sandwell, .... etc.
  • 2. Thomas Whorwood 'of Compton'
  • m. Elizabeth Sutton (natural dau of Sir Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley)
    • A. Oliver Whorwood
    • m. Isabella Gravenour
      • i. Gabriel Whorwood etc.
    • B. Owen Whorwood
      • i. John Whorwood etc.
    • C. Richard Whorwood
    • m. _ Jelon
      • i. William Whorwood of Tipton (a 1583)
    • D. Elizabeth Whorwood probably of this generation
    • m. John Sutton of Compton (bpt 30.11.1569)
• Main source(s): Visitation (Staffordshire, 1583, Whorwood of Compton and Lutley), Visitation (Staffordshire, 1583 & 1614, Whorwood of Compton), Whorwood (Staffordshire, 1664-1700, Whorwood)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ww/whorwood1.php ____________________________
• Elizabeth Whorwood[1, 2]
• Born Abt 1580 of, Stourton, Staffordshire, England
• Father Sir Thomas Whorwood
• Mother Magdalen
• Family John Dudley Sutton, Esquire, b. 1569, St. Edmund, Dudley, Worcestershire, England , d. Feb 1645
• Children
  • 1. Anne Sutton
  • 2. Whorwood Dudley
• Sources
• 1.[S32] #150 [1879-1967] A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, Together with Memoirs of the Privy Councillors and Knights (1879-1967), Burke, Sir John Bernard, (London: Harrison, 1879-1967), FHL book 942 D22bup., 1967 ed. vol. 1 p. 794.
• 2.[S231] #238 The Herald and Genealogist (1862-1874), Nichols, John Gough, (8 volumes. London: J. G. Nichols and R. C. Nichols, 1862-1874), FHL book 942 B2h; FHL microfilms 990,090-990,093., vol. 5 p. 126.
• 3.[S107] #150 [1827-1878] A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, Together with Memoirs of the Privy Councillors and Knights (1827-1878), Burke, Sir John Bernard, (London: Henry Colburn, 1827-1878), FHL book 942 D22bup., 104 ed. p. 794.
• From: https://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I36158&tree... _______________________________
• 'Sutton02'
• John de Sutton, 'Lord' of Dudley (d c1370/1376)
• BE1883 identifies this John as the 2nd Baron. We follow TCP and BP1934 which do not identify a hereditary Baron until this John's grandson.
• m1. (25.12.1357) Catherine de Stafford (d 12.1361, dau of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford)
• (1) BE1883 identifies John's first wife as Margaret, daughter of Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore, and reports that both his sons were by his second wife, Johanna. TCP does not provide any details on his wives. Noting that BP1934 reports that John had only one son by his first wife, we follow BP1934.
• (2) BE1883 combines the 3 generations shown here as this next John and the next 2 generations into just 2 generations as follows: this next John (m1. Alice Despenser, m2. Constance le Blount, d 1407), next John (m. Elizabeth Berkeley, d 1487). The information provided by TCP (which 'kicks in' for the 1st Lord) would support both BE1883 and BP1934 but, as an 80 year gap between the deaths of father & son seems long, we follow BP1934 which shows the following
  • 1. John de Sutton, 'Lord' of Dudley (b 06.12.1361, d 10.03.1395-6)
  • m1. Alice Despenser (d 1392, dau of Philip le Despenser of Carlington)
    • A. Sir John Sutton of Dudley Castle (b c1380, d 29.08.1406)
    • m. (before 10.12.1401) Constance le Blount (d 09.1432, dau of Sir Walter le Blount of Barton and Belton)
      • i. John Sutton, 1st Lord of Dudley (b 25.12.1400, d 30.09.1487)
      • m. Elizabeth Berkeley (d 1478, dau of Sir John de Berkeley of Beverstone)
        • a. Sir Edmund Sutton (dvp after 06.07.1483)
        • m1. Joyce Tiptoft (dau of Sir John de Tiptoft, 1st Lord)
          • (1) Edward Sutton, 2nd Lord of Dudley (b c1459, d 31.01.1531/2)
          • m. Cecilie / Cicely Willoughby (dau of Sir William Willoughby)
            • (A) John Sutton, 3rd Lord of Dudley (b c1495, bur 18.09.1553)
            • m. Cicely Grey (bur 28.04.1554, dau of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset)
              • (i) Edward Sutton, 4th Lord of Dudley (bur 12.08.1586)
              • m1. (1556) Catherine Brydges (bur 28.04.1566, dau of John Brydges, 1st Lord Chandos of Sudeley)
                • (a)

Agnes Sutton .... etc.

• ******* m2. (1566/7) Jane Stanley (bur 04.09.1569, dau of Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby)
  • ******* (b) Edward Sutton, 5th Lord of Dudley (bpt 17.09.1567, d 23/4.06.1643) .... etc.
    • ****** (c) John Sutton of Compton (bpt 30.11.1569)
      • ***** m. Elizabeth Whorwood (dau of Thomas Whorwood of Compton)
        • ***** ((1)) Anne Sutton
          • **** m. Edward Gibson of York
            • *** ((2))+ other issue (dsp 1660, including Whorwood)
              • m3. Mary Howard (d 21.08.1600, dau of William Howard, Lord of Effingham)
              • (ii) Henry Sutton .... etc.
            • (B) Geoffrey Sutton or Dudley
            • m. Eleanor Talbot
              • (i) Thomas Sutton or Dudley of Russell's Hall had issue
            • (C) Eleanor Sutton (d before 1549)
            • m. (sp) Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (b c1460, d 15.04.1526)
            • (D) Joyce Sutton
            • m. John Leighton of Wattlesborough (d 1532)
            • (E) Johanna Sutton
            • m. Sir Thomas Fiennes, younger of Dacre (b 1495, dvp 26.10.1528)
            • (F) Margaret Sutton
            • m1. John Grey, Lord of Powis (d 1504)
            • m2. Robert Sutton of Burton (b by 1477, d 25.11.1545)
            • (G) Catherine Sutton
            • m. (c1530) Sir George Gresley of Drakelow (b 1494, d 21.04.1548)
            • (H)+ other issue - Thomas, Arthur, George, Elizabeth, Alice
          • partner unknown
            • (M) Elizabeth Sutton probably of this generation
            • m. Thomas Whorwood 'of Compton'
          • (2) Sir John Sutton of Aston le Walls .... etc.
        • b. John Sutton, later Dudley of Atherington, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex
        • m. Elizabeth Bramshot (dau of John Bramshot of Bramshot)
        • c. William Sutton, Bishop of Durham
        • d. Oliver Sutton (d 1469)
        • e. Margaret Sutton
        • m. Sir George (not John) Longueville of Little Dilling
        • f. Jane Sutton
        • m. Thomas Mainwaring of Ightfield (b c1450, d 1508)
        • g. Eleanor Sutton
        • m1. Henry Beaumont of Woodsop and/or Wednesbury
        • m2. George Stanley of West Bromwich
        • h. Elizabeth Sutton possibly of this generation
        • m. Sir John Hodleston of Sawston (a 1485)
      • ii. Thomas de Sutton reported by BE1883 but not by BP1934, assumed to be of this generation .... etc. ______________________