Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave

Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
Born	c. 1564
Died	1646
Title	1st Earl of Mulgrave 3rd Baron Sheffield
Spouse(s)	Ursula Tyrwhitt Mariana Irwin
Parent(s)	John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield Douglas Howard

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

Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, 3rd Baron Sheffield, KG (c. 1564 – 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.

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.

He married, firstly, Ursula Tyrwhitt, by whom he had at least one daughter, Mary Sheffield and, secondly, Mariana Irwin.

He 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

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