Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave

British peer and Member of Parliament

Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
1st Earl of Mulgrave
3rd Baron Sheffield
Personal details
Born(1564-12-07)December 7, 1564
DiedOctober 6, 1646(1646-10-06) (aged 81)
Resting placeSt Paul's Church, Hammersmith
Spouses
  • Ursula Tyrwhitt
  • Mariana Irwin
Parent(s)John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield
Douglas Howard
RelativesEdmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave (grandson)

Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, 3rd Baron Sheffield, KG (7 December 1564 – 6 October 1646) was a British peer and Member of Parliament, who served as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire from 1603 to 1619 and Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire from 1604 to 1646. He was created Earl of Mulgrave in 1626.

Early Life

Edmund Sheffield was born on 7 December 1564 to John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield and Douglas Howard.[1] His grandfather, Sir Edmund Sheffield, a second cousin of Henry VIII, was raised to the Peerage in 1547 as Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick, and in 1549 was murdered in the streets of Norwich during Kett's Rebellion.

Career

Arms of Sir Edmund Sheffield, 3rd Baron Sheffield, KG

In 1588, Sheffield was made a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garterby Queen Elizabeth I for valiant services in the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) as a commander of a ship named "The Bear" as well a squadron of ships.[2] Sheffield later served in the Nine Years' War.[2]

Sheffield was made President of the North by King James VI and I, serving from 1603–1619.[2]

Personal Life

Sheffield married Ursula Tyrwhitt, by whom he had at least one daughter, Mary Sheffield.

In March 1619, Sheffield remarried Mariana Irwin (or Irvine). She was a daughter of his dancing master Sir William Irvine (or Urwin), a Scottish courtier who was a Gentleman Usher to Prince Henry and Charles I of England[3].

Death and legacy

Sheffield died on 6 October 1646[1]. He was buried in St Pauls, Hammersmith in a tomb of black and white marble 7 feet (2.1 m) long, 3 feet (0.91 m) high and 3 feet (0.91 m) over, defended with iron rails, where a monument to his memory was erected by his wife Mariana, Countess of Mulgrave.[2]

Sheffield was succeeded by his grandson, likely via his second wife Mariana Irwin, Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
16. Sir Robert Sheffield
8. Sir Robert Sheffield
17. Helen Delves
4. Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield
18. George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange
9. Jane Stanley
19. Joan le Strange, 9th Baroness Strange
2. John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield
20. John de Vere
10. John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford
21. Alice Kilrington
5. Anne de Vere
22. Edward Trussell
11. Elizabeth Trussell
23. Margaret Kene
1. Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
24. John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk
12. Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
25. Katherine Moleyns
6. William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham
26. Hugh Tilney of Skirbeck
13. Agnes Tilney
27. Eleanor Tailboys
3. Douglas Howard
28.
14. Sir Thomas Gamage
29.
7. Margaret Gamage
30. Sir John St. John of Bletsoe
15. Margaret St. John
31.

References

  1. ^ a b "SHEFFIELD FAMILY". tudorplace.com. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d Bowack, John (18 April 2018). The Antiquities of Middlesex; Being a Collection of the Several Church Monuments in That County: Also an Historical Account of Each Church and Parish (1st ed.). London: Gale Ecco. pp. 38–39. ISBN 9781379545057. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  3. ^ Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, 2 (London: Colburn, 1849), pp. 145–46.
Political offices
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire
President of the Council of the North
1603–1619 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire
1604–1646 		Succeeded by
Peerage of England
New creation Earl of Mulgrave
1626–1646 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Baron Sheffield
1568–1646


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