The Dudley brothers are only welcome at…
March 1558 CE
The Dudley brothers are only welcome at court as long as King Philip is there, otherwise they are even suspected of associating with people who conspired against Mary's regime.
Robert and Amy Dudley had been allowed in January 1557 to repossess some of their former lands, but Dudley was already heaping up considerable debts.
In March of the same year he had been at Calais, where he had been chosen to deliver personally to Queen Mary the happy news of her husband's return to England.
Ambrose, Robert, and Henry Dudley, the youngest brother, had fought for Philip II in August 1557 at the Battle of St. Quentin.
Henry Dudley had been killed in the battle by a cannonball—according to Robert, before his own eyes.
All surviving Dudley children—Ambrose and Robert with their sisters Mary and Katherine—are in 1558 restored in blood by Mary's next Parliament.