John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley ( –1553), commonly known as Lord Quondam, was an English nobleman. Early life John Sutton was born in 1494, at Dudley Castle, Worcestershire, the eldest son and heir of Sir Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley and his wife Cicely ( Willoughby) Sutton. His mother was a daughter of Sir William Willoughby and Joan Strangeways, and granddaughter of Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk. John Sutton had several younger brothers: Thomas, William, Arthur, Geoffery and George. Among his sisters were Hon. Eleanor Sutton (wife of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, and Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane), Hon. Jane Sutton (wife of Sir Thomas Fiennes), Hon. Margaret Sutton (wife of John Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Powis). Career John was knighted on 13 October 1513, and succeeded his father Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley as Baron Dudley in 1532. He immediately began to sell his patrimony, including half of Powis Castle. He was never summoned to Parliament. John Sutton acquired the nickname "Lord Quondam" ('Lord Has-been' or 'Lord Formerly') when he allowed his estate, including the castle of Dudley, to fall into the possession of his cousin, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. Northumberland resided at Dudley Castle and added new and magnificent structures to the old fortress. Dugdale wrote: "It is reported by credible tradition of this John Lord Dudley, that being a man of weak understanding, whereby he had exposed himself to some wants, and so became entangled in the usurer’s bonds, John Dudley, then Viscount Lisle and Earl of Warwick (afterwards Duke of Northumberland), thirsting after Dudley Castle, the chief seat of the family, made those money merchants his instruments to work him out of it, which by some mortgage being at length effected, this poor lord became exposed to the charity of his friends for a subsistence, and spending the remainder of his life in visits amongst them, was commonly called the Lord Quondam." There is much evidence in the Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII to suggest that Warwick and Cromwell between them colluded to entangle Lord Dudley before the fact, and did not simply take advantage of him afterwards, as suggested by Dugdale's sources. Cromwell had long been friends with Cecily Grey and her family and bought out Baron Dudley's lands to help save her family from ruin. Personal life By 30 October 1501, he was betrothed to Lady