Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick (22 November 1521 – 19 July 1549) was an

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, the son of Sir Robert Sheffield (died 15 November 1531, son of Robert Sheffield and Helen Delves) and his second wife Jane Stanley, daughter of George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange and Joan le Strange, 9th Baroness Strange. Through his mother, he was a second cousin once removed of the reigning English monarch,

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Life

Following his father's death in 1531, his

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was granted to George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, the brother of Henry VIII's second wife,

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. However, both Rochford and Boleyn were executed in 1536, and his wardship was transferred to John de Vere, the fifteenth

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. Sheffield married Anne de Vere, daughter of

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, before 31 January 1538, and by her had a son and three daughters. In 1547 he was raised to the

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as '' Baron Sheffield of Butterwick''. Two years later, during

Kett's Rebellion Kett's Rebellion was a revolt in Norfolk, England during the reign of Edward VI, largely in response to the enclosure of land. It began at Wymondham on 8 July 1549 with a group of rebels destroying fences that had been put up by wealthy landowners ...

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, Lord Sheffield was killed in a street near the Cathedral Close when he fell from his horse, removed his helmet assuming the customary capture and eventual ransom, yet was fatally struck by a butcher.Strype, John, ''Ecclesiastical Memoirs'', vol.2 part 1, Oxford (1822), 272. He was buried at

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Children

#Eleanor Sheffield (born about 1537) married Denzel Holles #

John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick (c. 1538 – 10 December 1568) was the first son of Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, and Lady Anne de Vere. He married Douglas Howard, daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of E ...

(c. 1538 – 10 December 1568) married Douglas Howard #Robert Sheffield (born about 1540) #Frances Sheffield (born 1542) married Thomas Metham #Elizabeth Sheffield (born about 1546)

Ancestry

References

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Accessed February 17, 2008 1521 births 1549 deaths Barons Sheffield Peers of England created by Edward VI 16th-century English nobility

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