Ursula Tyrwhitt Sheffield

Ursula Tyrwhitt

• Birth: - Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
• Death: May 4 1617 - Butterwike, Boston, Lincoln County, England, UK
• Parents: Robert Tyrwhitt
• Husband: Edmund (1st Earl of Mulgrave) Sheffield

Edmund Sheffield married twice: first, Ursula, daughter of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, by whom he had six sons, who all predeceased him, and nine daughters. The second son, John, was father of Edmund Sheffield, second earl of Mulgrave [q. v.] (G. E. C. Complete Peerage, v. 417; Dugdale, ii. 387).

"Edmund Sheffield was the lord admiral of England, on 26 July 1588. His staunchly Catholic wife, Ursula Tyrwhitt, caused Sheffield some difficulties in his standing with the queen. He was granted the manor of Mulgrave, Yorkshire in 1591 and demonstrated his allegiance by strenuously persecuting local Catholics, who denounced his for his harshness and claimed the early deaths of all six of his sons with Ursula as divine retribution."

Children:

• Mary Fairfax (born Sheffield), Charles Sheffield, Frances Fairfax (born Sheffield), John (2nd Earl of Mulgrave) Sheffield, Edmund Sheffield, Phillip Sheffield, George Sheffield, Magdalen Sheffield, Elizabeth Swift (born Sheffield), Triphenia Verney (born Sheffield), Margaret Thelwall (born Sheffield), Sarah Sheffield, Thomas Sheffield, Robert Sheffield, James Sheffield, William Sheffield

Links

• http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sheffield,_Edmund_(1564%3F-1646)_(DNB...
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=michaelrn...
• http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14496.html