Ernle FamHist

Ernle Family History

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Family Name: Ernle Name Variants: Ernle, Earnle; Ernley, Yernle

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Twelfth Century

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Thirteenth Century

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Fourteenth Century

• William ERNELEY of Arundel, Sussex
  • 1458. Wilts. Thomas Clotte /Slotte v. William, earl of Arundell (Arundel); John Dudley de Dudley, Staffs, knight; Thomas Barette de Arundel, Sussex, armiger; and William Erneley de Arundel, Sussex, armiger. Trespass: jury in respite[1]; [2]
  • 1458. Sussex. William Ernele, armiger v. John Nudegate (Newdigate) de Cranley (Cranleigh), Surrey. Debt for £13/6/8; early process. [3]

Comments: William ERNELEY appears thus far only in 1458, with his residence in Arundel, Sussex. He was, from the case of trespass above, plausibly associated with William FITZALAN, 9th Earl of Arundel (of the 2nd creation, reigned 1438-1487), and Sir John DUDLEY (also known as SUTTON), Knt, of Dudley, Staffordshire. ERNELEY's appearance together as a defendant in a plea with DUDLEY is perhaps an early example of what later came to be a closer association of a member of the ERNLE family with that of DUDLEY which can be seen some forty years later in the early career of later Tudor solicitor-general, attorney-general, and lord chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas (cjcp)(1519-1520), Sir John ERNLE, Knt. As a young man, John ERNLE (1464/65-1520) began his legal practice as a Gray's Inn lawyer and associate of one of the notorious financial agents of King Henry VII, Edmund DUDLEY (exec. 1510), but ERNLE survived his patron's fall to rise in royal favour as a legal advisor and agent to Henry VII's son and successor, King Henry VIII. See the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, under Sir John ERNLEY (1464/5-1520), for more on this later connexion. External citations

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Fifteenth Century

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Eighteenth Century

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