Northumberland married Jane to his youngest son Guildford Dudley, allowing himself to get the most out of a necessary Protestant succession.

On 21 September 1578 his mother married Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth I's long-standing favourite and Robert Devereux's godfather.

Although he adamantly refused to be married to Mary, Queen of Scots, Dudley was for a long time relatively sympathetic to her until from the mid-1580s he strongly advocated her execution.

On 6 July 1553 King Edward VI died and the Duke of Northumberland attempted to transfer the English Crown to Lady Jane Grey, his daughter-in-law who was married to his second youngest son, Guildford Dudley.

In 1566 Dudley formed the opinion that Elizabeth would never marry, recalling that she had always said so since she was eight years old ; but he still was hopeful — she had also assured him he would be her choice in case she changed her mind ( and married an Englishman ).

He explained to her that he could not marry, not even in order to beget a Dudley heir, without his " utter overthrow ": You must think it is some marvellous cause ... that forceth me thus to be cause almost of the ruin of mine own house ... my brother you see long married and not like to have children, it resteth so now in myself ; and yet such occasions is there ... as if I should marry I am sure never to have Queen's favour ".

After the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, the younger Robert Dudley tried unsuccessfully to prove that his parents had married 30 years earlier in a secret ceremony.

* Lady Anne Seymour ( 1538 – 1588 ), married firstly John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick ; she married secondly Sir Edward Unton, MP, by whom she had issue.

He married in 1577 Mary Sidney, the famous Countess of Pembroke ( c. 1561 – 1621 ), third daughter of Sir Henry Sidney and his wife Mary Dudley.

As her duties as Queen clash with her feelings as a woman ( and she discovers to her fury that Dudley has secretly married her cousin Lettice Knollys ), Elizabeth faces her toughest decision.

Jane had been married to Northumberland's son, Guilford Dudley, on 25 May 1553.

John Woodbridge, settled in Newbury in 1634 and married Mercy Dudley, daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley.

Samuel Dudley and Winthrop ’ s daughter Mary were married, thus Brothers Rocks were so named because of this marriage of families.

In 1901 she married her first husband, Dudley John Beaumont.

After their divorce, he married, in 1948, the actress Penelope Dudley-Ward, also known as Pempie, the elder daughter of Freda Dudley Ward, who had been a mistress of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and Duke of Windsor.

In 1525 Dudley married Guildford's daughter Jane, who was four years his junior and his former class-mate.

On 21 May 1553 Guildford Dudley, Northumberland's second youngest son, married Lady Jane Grey, the fervently Protestant daughter of the Duke of Suffolk and, through her mother Frances Brandon, a grandniece of Henry VIII.

Guildford Dudley enjoyed a humanist education and was married to Jane in a magnificent celebration about six weeks before the King's death.

# Sir Dudley Loftus, married Anne Bagenal ( grandparents of Dudley Loftus, a pioneer scholar of Middle Eastern languages );

He left three sons, each of whom succeeded in his turn to the title, and one daughter, Anne, who married Sir Dudley Cullum, Bart., of Hanstead, Suffolk.

In 1992, he married Sarah Whitehead Dudley, a graduate of Columbia University and a freelance writer.

* Cecily Grey ( d. 28 April 1554 ), married John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley.

Elizabeth and her favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, c. 1575.

In the spring of 1559 it became evident that Elizabeth was in love with her childhood friend Robert Dudley.

Elizabeth seriously considered marrying Dudley for some time.

In 1564 Elizabeth raised Dudley to the peerage as Earl of Leicester.

In 1563 Elizabeth proposed her own suitor, Robert Dudley, as a husband for Mary, without asking either of the two people concerned.

During his minority as her ward, one third of his estate had already reverted to the Crown, much of which Elizabeth had long since settled on Robert Dudley.

Elizabeth also appointed her personal favourite, the son of the Duke of Northumberland Lord Robert Dudley, her Master of the Horse, giving him constant personal access to the queen.

Risk of death came dangerously close in 1564 when Elizabeth caught smallpox ; when she was most at risk, she named Robert Dudley as Lord Protector in the event of her death.

Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet is a boys ' grammar school in Barnet, North London, which was founded in 1573 by Edward Underne, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and others, in the name of Queen Elizabeth I.

The school was founded in 1573 by Queen Elizabeth I, petitioned by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and assisted by local alderman Edward Underne.

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG ( 24 June 1532 or 1533 – 4 September 1588 ) was an English nobleman and the favourite and close friend of Elizabeth I from her first year on the throne until his death.

Already in April 1559 court observers noted that Elizabeth never let Dudley from her side ; but her favour did not extend to his wife.

Elizabeth remained close with Dudley and he, with her blessing and on her prompting, pursued his suit for her hand in an atmosphere of diplomatic intrigue.

His efforts leading nowhere, in the spring of 1561 Dudley offered to leave England to seek military adventures abroad ; Elizabeth would have none of that and everything remained as it was.

In 1563 Elizabeth suggested Dudley as a consort to the widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, the idea being to achieve firm amity between England and Scotland and diminish the influence of foreign powers.

Robert Dudley financed the lifestyle expected of a royal favourite by large loans from City of London merchants until in April 1560 Elizabeth granted him his first export licence, worth £ 6, 000 p. a.

* Skidmore, Chris ( 2010 ): Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 978-0-19-784650-5

In 1574 he passed over to England, where he received commission from Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester to portray himself and Queen Elizabeth.

In 1977, as part of the celebrations of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, the Home Office identified nine candidates for city status: Blackburn, Brighton, Croydon, Derby, Dudley, Newport, Sandwell, Sunderland and Wolverhampton.

He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, Sir Robert Dudley in Elizabeth, Commisar Danilov in Enemy at the Gates, Martin Luther in Luther, Merlin in Camelot, and his portrayal of Mark Benford in the 2009 TV series FlashForward.

In 1998, Fiennes appeared in two films that were nominated at the Academy Awards: he played Robert Dudley opposite Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth and he portrayed William Shakespeare opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

* Elizabeth ( 1998 ) – Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester