Elizabeth (Berkeley) Sutton (abt. 1400 - 1478)

Born about 1400 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Edward (Cherleton) de Cherleton KG — married before 1408 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 8 Dec 1478 at about age 78 in England [uncertain]

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Biography

Elizabeth Berkeley was the daughter of John Berkeley, Knt., and Elizabeth Betteshorne.^[1][2] Her date and place of birth are unknown and are estimated.

Elizabeth married first Sir Edward Cherleton (or Charleton), K.G., 5th Lord Cherleton,^[1] son of Sir John Cherleton, 3rd Lord Cherleton, and Joan de Stafford, before 1408. They had no issue.^[2]

Elizabeth married second before 28 June 1421 to John Sutton (or Dudley), K.G., 1st Lord Dudley,^[2] son of Sir John Sutton and Constance Blount.^[1] They had five sons and three daughters:

• Edmund, Knt.^[1]
• John, Esq.^[1]
• Humphrey^[1]
• William, clerk, Bishop of Durham, Chancellor of Oxford University^[1]
• Oliver^[1]
• Margaret, wife of Sir George Longueville^[1]
• Jane,^[1] wife of Thomas Mainwaring
• Eleanor,^[1] wife of Sir Henry Beaumont, and of George Stanley, Esq.

In 1459, Elizabeth was a legatee in the the will of her sister, Eleanor Hungerford, Countess of Arundel, who left her a row of pearls.^[1]

Elizabeth died before 8 December 1478 and her husband, John, died 30 September 1487.^[1][2] The couple is buried at St. James's Priory, Dudley, Staffordshire.^[1][3]

Research Notes

Disputed Daughter

Agnes (Sutton) de Snede was detached as the daughter of Elizabeth and John. She is not named as a child by Richardson and the only source on Agnes' profile is "First-hand information as remembered by..."

Unsourced Title

A source is needed for her title: "Baroness Sutton of Dudley"

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, vol. IV, pages 153-155 SUTTON 7, John Sutton (Dudley), K.G.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed., vol. I, page 427-428 CHERLETON 9.
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013, vol. V, page 103 SUTTON 7.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry

See also:

• Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed., vol. II, page 172 FISHER 7.iv
• Richardson, Royal Ancestry, (2013), vol. II, page 631.
• Lewis, Marlyn. Elizabeth Berkeley entry in Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins website, accessed 24 Mar 2020.
• History of Parliament Online: Sir John Berkeley 1352-1428.
• George Edward Cokayne and Vicary Gibbs ed. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. IV: Dacre - Dysart, 2nd edition. (London, 1916). Pages 479-481. Online at Archive.org: Dudley or Sutton of Dudley
• Pedigrees from the visitation of Hampshire made by Thomas Benolt, Clarenceulx a 1530 : enlarged with the vissitation of the same county made by Robert Cooke, Clarenceulx anno 1575 both which are continued with the vissitation made by John Phillipott, Somersett (for William Camden, Clarenceux) in a 1622 most part then done & finished in a 1634. As collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian ms. no. 1544 by Benolt, Thomas, d. 1534; Cooke, Robert, d. 1592; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645; Mundy, Richard; Rylands, W. Harry (William Harry), 1847-1922 Page 5: Berkley

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Elizabeth (Berkeley) Sutton is a decendant of Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy and appears in trails badged by the Magna Carta Project to the following Gateway Ancestors:

• Robert Abell (MCA I:1-2 ABELL): trail badged in September 2017. See the trail HERE.
• Dannett Abney: badged November 2015. See the trail HERE.
• Elizabeth Covert (MCA I:555-559 COVERT): badged in 2015 and re-reviewed in March 2020. This trail can be seen HERE.
• John Fisher: trail was reviewed/approved and badged in 2015. See the trail HERE.
• Agnes Mackworth (MCA III:91-93 MACKWORTH): badged March 2022. See the trail HERE.
• Elizabeth Marshall: trail badged in May 2020. See the trail HERE.

Elizabeth (Berkeley) Sutton appears in unbadged trails (needing more work) to the following Gateways:

• Washington Gateways (John and Lawrence) (MCA IV:293-295 WASHINGTON): needs development. See the trali HERE.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".