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Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
Born	7 December 1564
Died	6 October 1646
Title	1st Earl of Mulgrave ; 3rd Baron Sheffield
Spouses	Ursula Tyrwhitt; Mariana Irwin;
Parent(s)	John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield ; Douglas Howard
Relatives	Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave (grandson)

Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, 3rd Baron Sheffield, KG (7 December 1564 – 6 October 1646^[1]) 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.

He was the son of John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield and Douglas Howard, and the grandson of Sir Edmund Sheffield. His grandfather, 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.

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He married, firstly, Ursula Tyrwhitt, by whom he had at least one daughter, Mary Sheffield and, secondly, in March 1619, Mariana Irwin or Irvine. She was a daughter of Sir William Irvine (or Urwin), a Scottish courtier who was a Gentleman Usher to Prince Henry and Charles I of England. He was described as their dancing master.^[2]

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

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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 edit

^ "SHEFFIELD FAMILY". tudorplace.com. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
^ Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, 2 (London: Colburn, 1849), pp. 145–46.

"Sheffield, Edmund (1564?-1646)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Burghley	Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire President of the Council of the North 1603–1619	Succeeded by The Lord Scrope of Bolton
Preceded by Sir John Stanhope	Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire 1604–1646	Succeeded by The Earl of Mulgrave
Peerage of England
New creation	Earl of Mulgrave 1626–1646	Succeeded by Edmund Sheffield
Preceded by John Sheffield	Baron Sheffield 1568–1646	Succeeded by Edmund Sheffield

[1] "SHEFFIELD FAMILY". tudorplace.com. Retrieved 23 April 2022.

[2] Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, 2 (London: Colburn, 1849), pp. 145–46.

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