Edward Sutton was the eldest son of Sir
Edmund Sutton and Joyce de Tiptoft,[1] daughter of Sir
John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft. In right of his wife Joyce, Edmund Dudley benefited from her inheritance of the
Tibetot barony and
Cherleton barony, and thus co-heir to the Powis inheritance, but was never created baron of these holdings.
His aunt, Eleanor Dudley,[4] married Sir Henry Beaumont of
Wednesbury,[4] and George Stanley,[4] of
West Bromwich and High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1473.[5]
Edward married Cecily Willoughby, [1] daughter of Sir William Willoughby and Joan Strangeways, and granddaughter of
Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk, by whom he had:[2]
Hon. Joyce Sutton, who married firstly Sir John Leighton of
Wattlesborough. After his death, she married Richard Lee, MP for
Much Wenlock, before 1538.
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abcUK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
^Staffordshire Record Society (1912), "Sheriffs of Staffordshire 1086–1912", Collections for a history of Staffordshire, vol. 12, Kendal, Eng., etc., pp. 272–294