1. | Sir John 2nd Baron Sheffield was born in 1538 in Butterwick, Lincolnshire, England (son of Edmund Sheffield and Anne de Vere); died on 10 December 1568 in Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, England. Poss. poisoned by the Earl of Leicester . Sir married Elizabeth Douglass Howard (maid. name "Baroness Sheffield") in 1562 in Esher, Surrey, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir William (1st Baron Howard of Effingham) Howard (Ambassador to France) and Lady Margaret Gamage Countess Effingham) was born in 1545 in Lambeth, Surrey, England; died on 11 Dec 1608 in Effingham, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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- Elizabeth Sheffield was born in 1548 in Ormond, Wales; died on 1 November 1600 in Saint Canices Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland.
- Edmund (1st Earl of Mulgrave)(3rd baron Sheffield) Sheffield was born on 7 December 1565 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 6 October 1646 in Butterwicke House, Lincolnshire, England.
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