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FAMOUS DUDLEY'S of ENGLAND Below you will find pictures and a short story of famous or infamous Dudleys and their famous enemies, or famous associations. These Dudleys played a large role in English history, and in how England became what it is today.
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John Dudley An English statesman and the son of Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII. John was restored to his inheritance in 1512 after his fathers attainder and execution in 1510. Rising by means of his military ability, he became Viscount Lisle, warden of the Scottish Marches in 1542, and lord high admiral in 1543. Named as one of the executors of Henry VIII's will, he helped Edward Seymour, later duke of Somerset, become protector of the young Edward VI, while he himself was created earl of Warwick and lord high chamberlain. Cooperative and politic, he dissembled his plans for power while distinguishing himself in the field of battle; in 1547 he took part in the victory over the Scots at Pinkie and suppressed the rebellion of Robert Kett in 1549. By never actually committing himself and by playing on both Catholic and Protestant sympathies, he finally formed a coalition against Somerset, deposing him in 1549 and having him executed in 1552. Some say John, of little religious conviction himself, then posed as a firm Protestant to increase his power over Edward VI and ruthlessly advanced the Reformation for political ends. He was appointed duke of Northumberland in 1551. In a plan to protect his power, he was said to have convinced the dying Edward that the latters sister Mary should be excluded from the succession because, she was a Catholic, and he browbeat the council into proclaiming Lady Jane Grey, his daughter-in-law, as queen when the monarch died in 1553.
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Lady Jane Grey Dudley,
Ceux que les dieux aiment meurent jeunes.
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The Execution of Lady Jane-1554
Lady Jane Grey, upon marrying Lord Guildford Dudley, the fourth son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, knowing she was in line of succession of the Crown of England. John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland persuaded the young Edward on his death bed to transfer the rights of his sisters, Mary and Elizabeth. After the kings death on 6th July 1553, Lady Jane Dudley was publicly proclaimed at the Tower, but within eight days Mary's supporters rose in strength. On the 31st July Lady Jane's father, Henry Duke of Suffolk entered her chamber, tore down the canopy of state and told her she was no longer Queen. She begged to go home, but he turned her away. She was now a prisoner of the state, and Suffolk himself was soon to share her fate.
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Mary I Queen of England
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Tower of London
Founded nearly a millennium ago and expanded upon over the centuries since, the Tower of London has protected, housed, imprisoned and been for many the last sight they saw on Earth, such as Lady Jane Dudley, her husband Guilford Dudley, and her father-in-law, John Dudley.
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Robert Dudley Leicester
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Queen Elizabeth I
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Dud Dudley
By the seventeenth century, serious depletion of forests had occurred and local industrialists turned their minds to finding alternative fuels.
The common metallurgical fuel of the time was charcoal. The absolute dependency on wood for smelting was gradually undermining Britain's naval and mercantile strength. Dudley describes how others tried to use coal in smelting, but failed. He himself succeeded in perfecting a suitable process, and in 1619 obtained a patent from King James for this. Why use coal? Well, there was the increasing scarcity of wood/charcoal; while at the same time vast quantities of small coal, otherwise unusable, were lying around. Many coal pits produced both coal and iron ores from the same workings.
Dudley used coal not only for the smelting of iron ore in the blast furnace, but also to cast Iron works of sundry sorts and to fine pig iron into wrought iron or Merchantable good Bar Iron. During the Civil War he lost most of his goods and of course also his patent. Upon the Restoration, Dudley petitioned the King to be restored to his Place and his patent to be revived. By 1665, this request had not been granted - which was, of course, the reason for the publication of this book. Here Dudley sets out, in a methodical manner, all advantages of his invention, and this leads up to a new petition, which never was granted.
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Sir Robert Dudley,
Sir Robert Dudley, was the son of Lord Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, legitimate or illegitimate, has been an argument that has been going on for years and it really doesn't matter, for all will agree he was Robert's biological son, and Sir Robert Dudley was also, quite a renaissance man, skilled in mathematics, navigation, ship building, naval warfare, medicine (he both practiced and invented medicine), instrument making, and cartography. Sir Robert Dudley 1574-1649, was a colorful figure in Elizabethan England. He was the son of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I. Brilliant and ambitious, he became an extraordinarily skilled navigator, engineer, and chartmaker, and aspired to make a major voyage of discovery in the fashion of Sir Francis Drake. Dudley's life was noteworthy, and was, however, a bigamist, privateer, engineer, mathematician, architect and designer of warships and scientific instruments. In 1594-5 he commanded an expedition to the West Indies and the Guiana coast of South America. In 1596 he served as commander of a vessel in the attack on Cadiz for which he was knighted. He fell out of favor at the English court due to his philandering and ill-considered support of the Essex rebellion and in 1605, Dudley, a Roman Catholic, fled religious persecution in England and settled in Tuscany, Italy. After leaving England, he assumed the titles of Duke of Northumberland and Earl of Warwick, and entered the service of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. From 1606 until his death in 1649 he lived in Florence and was an influential member of the Court of the Medicis. under the patronage of the Grand Duke of Tuscany a member of the Medici family - for whom he undertook a series of projects including the draining of the swamps between Pisa and Livorno (Leghorn).
His major accomplishment and his masterwork Dell'Arcano del Mare (Secrets of the Sea), a sea atlas and comprehensive treatise on navigation, shipbuilding, and naval organization, also is renowned as the first atlas of sea charts of the world, on a uniform Mercator projection, was published in 1646 and 1647 just before his death in 1649. A second edition with 146 maps was published by Guiseppe Cocchini in 1661.
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