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unusual facts about Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave


Edmund Sheffield

Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave (c. 1564–1646), British peer and Member of Parliament


Baron Sheffield

At the death of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, however, all of the titles became extinct since no heirs to them remained.

3rd Baron Sheffield, was created Earl of Mulgrave in 1626, and the 3rd Earl of Mulgrave was finally advanced to the dukedom of Buckingham and Normanby.

The first creation, as Baron Sheffield of Butterwick, was in the Peerage of England in 1547 for Edmund Sheffield (1521–1549), second cousin of Henry VIII, who was murdered in Norwich during Kett's Rebellion.

Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield

#John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield (c. 1538 – 10 December 1568) married Douglas Howard

John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford

#Anne de Vere, (b. circa 1522, died c. 14 February 1572), who married firstly, Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield (d. 31 July 1549) of Butterwick, Lincolnshire, and secondly, John Brock of Colchester, Essex.


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