Date:2003
Description:Ralph Sheldon (1537 - 1613) owned extensive lands in Warwick and Worcestershire.He married into the Throckmorton family of Coughton Court. Around 1590 he commisioned four tapestry maps to decorate the new house he was building at Weston in Long Compton. The only Elizabethan tapestry to remain complete is that of Warwickshire,on view at the Warwick Museum. The painting is by Hieronimo Custodis. He is thought to have fled from his native Antwerp after ist fall to the Catholic Duke of Parma in 1585. Certainly all his dated paintings of English sitters are concentrated between 1589 and 1593, in which year his widow is recorded as remarrying. From this is would seem that he died in 1593, perhaps a victim of the plague which ravaged London in that year.
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Ralph Sheldon (1537 - 1613) was a rich landowner in Warwickshire and Worcestershire. He was also a courtier ...
Ralph Sheldon (1537 - 1613) owned extensive lands in Warwick and Worcestershire.He married into the ...
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Source: Warwickshire Museums , Warwickshire County Record Office
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