Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave KG

Order of the Garter

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 (c. 1564–1646) was a British peer

Peerage

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 and Member of Parliament

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, who served as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire

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 from 1603 to 1619 and Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire from 1604 to 1646. He was created Earl of Mulgrave

Earl of Mulgrave

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 in 1626.

The Sheffield family descended from Sir Edmund Sheffield, second cousin of Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

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, who in 1547 was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Sheffield

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, of Butterwick and in 1549 was murdered in the streets of Norwich

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 during Kett's Rebellion

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He was succeeded by his grandson, Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave

Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave

Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave was an English peer who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War period....

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