Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick

Butterwick

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(22 November 1521 – 19 July 1549) was an English

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 nobleman, 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

George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange

George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange, of Knockyn, KG, KB was an English nobleman and heir of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby. Despite predeceasing his father in 1503, he was nevertheless a considerable soldier and aristocrat in his own right and held a number of senior offices of state.He was born...

 and Joan le Strange, 9th Baroness Strange. Through his mother, he was a second cousin

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 of the reigning English monarch, King Henry VIII

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.

Life

Following his father's death in 1531, his wardship

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 was granted to George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford

George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford

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, the brother of Henry VIII's second wife

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, Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

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

John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford

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, the fifteenth Earl of Oxford

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.

Edmund married Lady Anne de Vere, Oxford's daughter, before 31 January 1538, and had five children. In 1547 he was raised to the Peerage of England

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 as Baron Sheffield

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 of Butterwick. Two years later, during Kett's Rebellion

Kett's Rebellion

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 in Norwich

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, Lord Sheffield was killed in a street near the Cathedral Close

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 when he fell from his horse and was struck by a butcher.

Children

1. Eleanor Sheffield (born about 1537) married Denzel Holles
2. John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield
   John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield of Butterwick
   John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick was the first son of Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield and Lady Anne de Vere....
   
   (c. 1538 – 10 December 1568) married Douglas Howard
3. Robert Sheffield (born about 1540
4. Frances Sheffield (born 1542) married Thomas Metham
5. Elizabeth Sheffield (born about 1546)