Dudley was present at Henry VIII 's meeting with Francis I of France at Calais in 1532 . Another member of the entourage was Anne Boleyn , who was soon to be queen . Dudley took part in the christenings of the King 's children , Elizabeth and Edward and , in connection with the announcement of the Prince 's birth to the Emperor , travelled to Spain via France in October 1537 . He sat in the Reformation parliament for Kent , in place of his deceased father-in-law , in 1534 – 1536 , and led one of the contingents sent against the Pilgrimage of Grace in late 1536 . In January 1537 Dudley was made Vice-Admiral and began to apply himself to naval matters . He was Master of the Horse to Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard , and in 1542 returned to the House of Commons as MP for Staffordshire but was soon promoted to the House of Lords following 12 March 1542 , when he became Viscount Lisle after the death of his stepfather Arthur Plantagenet and " by the right of his mother " . Being now a peer , Dudley became Lord Admiral and a Knight of the Garter in 1543 ; he was also admitted to the Privy Council . In the aftermath of the Battle of Solway Moss in 1542 he served as Warden of the Scottish Marches , and in the 1544 campaign the English force under Edward Seymour , Earl of Hertford , was supported by a fleet which Dudley commanded . Dudley joined the land force that destroyed Edinburgh , after he had blown the main gate apart with a culverin . In late 1544 he was appointed Governor of Boulogne , the siege of which had cost the life of his eldest son , Henry . His tasks were to rebuild the fortifications to King Henry 's design and to fend off French attacks by sea and land
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland