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Lord Guildford Dudley was an English nobleman who was married to Lady Jane Grey. She occupied the English throne from 10 July until 19 July 1553, having been declared the heir of King Edward VI. Guild
19th-century depiction of Guildford Dudley in the Houses of Parliament, Westminster
The Crown Offered to Lady Jane Grey, as imagined in the 1820s: Guildford and Jane are in the centre. Engraving after painting by Charles Robert Leslie
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland was an English military officer and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lad
Lord Guildford Dudley
…Dudley had a humanist education and married Jane in a magnificent celebration about six weeks before the King's death. After Guildford's father, the Duke of Northumberland, had engineered Jane's accession, Jane and Guildford spent her brief rule residing in the Tower of London. They were still in the Tower when their…
Posthumous portrait, c. 1607
In 1545, Lord High Admiral John Dudley, Viscount Lisle, welcomed King Henry VIII on board the Henri Grace a Dieu, popularly called Great Harry.
Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset
King Edward VI c. 1550