William Dugdale, Garter King of Arms

1605 - 1686  (80 years)

• Name	William Dugdale  [1]
  Suffix	Garter King of Arms
  Birth	12 Sep 1605	Shustoke, Warwickshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Feb 1686	Blyth Hall, Shustoke, Warwickshire, England   [2]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  1. Mary Dugdale ,   b. Bef 7 Dec 1597   d. Between 9 Apr 1640 and 1 Jun 1641  (Age > 42 years) ▻ Richard Sewall   2. William Dugdale, Garter King of Arms ,   b. 12 Sep 1605, Shustoke, Warwickshire, England d. 10 Feb 1686, Blyth Hall, Shustoke, Warwickshire, England  (Age 80 years)
  Person ID	I26927	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	John Dugdale,   b. 1552, Clitheroe, Lancashire, England d. 1624 (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Swynfen
  Family ID	F16086	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Herald and scholar. Influential in the development of medieval history as an academic subject. Author of numerous important works of scholarship including Monasticon Anglicanum, Antiquities of Warwickshire, History of St. Paul's Cathedral, and many others. "His place in the annals of historical scholarship is an honourable one. His speciality was the retrieval of factual information relating to the great institutions of the middle ages: the monasteries, the legal system, and the aristocracy. The scale of his operations was greater than any previous endeavour, and its achievements were astonishing, especially in view of the disorder of the records from which he worked. Monasticon Anglicanum opened up a new area of historical research, and provided the foundations for such future investigations as Henry Wharton's Anglia sacra (1691) and Thomas Tanner's Notitia monastica (1695), while The Antiquities of Warwickshire (of which the second edition of 1730 was republished in facsimile in the twentieth century) continues to be regarded as the finest of seventeenth-century county histories on account of its thoroughness of documentation and attractive presentation." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S3675] The Descendants of Henry Sewall (1576-1656) of Manchester and Coventry, England, and Newbury and Rowley, Massachusetts by Eben W. Graves. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2007. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.