Sir John de Sutton V (February 1380 – 28 August 1406) was the 4th
Baron Sutton of Dudley and heir to
Dudley Castle
Dudley Castle is a ruins, ruined castle, fortification in the town of Dudley, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Originally, a wooden motte and bailey castle built soon after the Norman Conquest, it was rebuilt as a stone fortifica ...
. He was the son of
Sir John de Sutton IV, 3rd Baron Sutton, and Joan (d. 1408). John married Constance Blount (d. 11 October 1432), daughter of
Sir Walter le Blount of
Barton who was killed at the
Battle of Shrewsbury
The Battle of Shrewsbury was fought on 21 July 1403, waged between an army led by the Lancastrian King Henry IV and a rebel army led by Henry "Harry Hotspur" Percy from Northumberland. The battle, the first in which English archers fought ea ...
in c.1402, whose death was immortalized by
Shakespeare
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.
John V is a descendant of the first
Lord Dudley,
Sir John de Sutton II (c. 1310–1359) the first to be summoned to the
Parliament of England
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as Baron Sutton in 1342. From 1397 to 1406, John V held lands derived from the
Earls of Powis
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, upon the death of his great grandmother
Isabel de Cherleton. In 1401, during the second year of King
Henry IV of England
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Henry was involved in the 1388 ...
's reign, John V did homage for the lands, including Castle Dudley. After John V's death, the Blounts had a stake in Dudley lands when his mother-in-law, Sancha de Ayala (d.1418), took custody of his first child John VI,
who was age six, as well as being granted John V's valuable estates. Widowed, Constance was eventually sued by
Robert Erghom for her dower in the King's chancery by which she defaulted several times on the King's grant of Dudley manor.
John V was succeeded by
John Sutton VI, 1st Baron Dudley. By Constance, his other children included Thomas Sutton of Dudley, Jane Sutton of Dudley (who married Thomas Mainwaring) and Elizabeth Sutton of Dudley. He is also said to have had a child, Humphrey Dudley.
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1380 births
1406 deaths
People from Dudley
Barons in the Peerage of England