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Edmund Dudley (c. 1462 or 1471/1472 – 17 August 1510) was an English administrator and a financial agent of King Henry VII. He served as a leading member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons and President of the King's Council.
Edmund Dudley (born c. 1462—died Aug. 18, 1510, London) was a minister of King Henry VII of England and author of a political allegory, The Tree of Commonwealth (1509). In 1506 Dudley was “president of the king’s council,” a small body of lawyers and fiscal administrators that helped reestablish the payment of feudal dues and of fines ...
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Sep 19, 2016 · September 19, 2016. On the morning of 17th August 1510, Edmund Dudley – notorious minister, lawyer, and general agent of King Henry VII – made his way to Tower Hill in London to be beheaded. No account of the execution itself survives, though one can imagine the anticipation and satisfaction with which the crowd witnessed the death of a man ...
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Aug 17, 2016 · On 17th August 1510, the second year of King Henry VIII's reign, Henry VII's former chief administrators, Sir Edmund Dudley and Sir Richard Empson, were beheaded on Tower Hill after being found guilty of treason. Chronicler Edward Hall records:
Edmund Dudley, (c.1462–1510) Dudley was educated at Oxford, and pursued a career as a lawyer. He specialised in the prerogative rights of the king, which qualified him very well for Henry VII’s purposes. He was elected to parliament in 1491–2, and again in 1495 as knight of the shire for Sussex.
Edmund Dudley was elected to Parliament in 1491. In November 1496 he was chosen one of the two under-sheriffs of London, and in 1501 he served on a commission to investigate infringements of the king's feudal rights and prerogatives in Sussex. In January 1504, Henry VII appointed Dudley to serve as speaker of the House of Commons.
BORN: c. 1462. EXECUTED: 17 AUGUST 1510. Edmund Dudley, along with King Henry VII and Richard Empson. The Duke of Rutland. Father of John Dudley, grandfather of Robert, Ambrose, Guildford, etc. Was a minister of Henry VII, where he became unpopular and was impeached and executed early in Henry VIII 's reign.
