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 Abt 1516 - 1588 (~ 72 years)
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| Name |
Edwin SANDYS |
| Suffix |
Archbishop of York |
| Born |
Abt 1516 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
10 Jul 1588 |
| Buried |
Southwell Minister, Nottinghamshire, England  |
| Person ID |
I1568 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
22 Apr 2010 |
| Family 1 |
Cecilia WILSFORD, b. Cranbrook, Kent, England , d. 5 Feb 1610 |
| Married |
19 Feb 1558/1559 |
| Children |
| | 1. Margaret SANDYS, b. 1566, d. 13 Oct 1590, Bishopsbourne, Kent, England (Age 24 years) |
| | 2. Sir Edwin SANDYS, b. 9 Dec 1561, Hartlebury Castle , d. 1629, Northbourne, Kent, England (Age 67 years) |
| | 3. Thomas SANDYS, b. 1568 |
| | 4. Anne SANDYS, b. 1570 |
| | 5. William SANDYS, b. 1565 |
| | 6. Sir Miles SANDYS, b. 1563, d. 1644 (Age 81 years) |
| | 7. Henry SANDYS, b. 1572, d. 1654 (Age 82 years) |
| | 8. George SANDYS, b. 1578, d. 1644 (Age 66 years) |
| | 9. Samuel SANDYS, b. 1560, d. 1623 (Age 63 years) |
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| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F531 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Edwin Sandys, senior, was educated at St. Johns College, Cambridge University where he matriculated in 1533.
In 1547 he was master of Catharine Hall. He was named Rector of the University in 1542, Master of St. Catherine's Hall in 1547, and was Vice Chancellor of the Cambridge when Edward VI died in 1553.
Edwin supported the cause of Lady Jane Grey. Mary (a Catholic) was proclaimed Queen, and Sandys was committed to the Tower of London on 25 July 1553. Finally obtaining release, he crossed to the Continent and joined the group of exiles who were to be the forerunners in England of the church puritans. At Zurich, to which he had gone following the death of his first wife and their only child at Strasbourg.
He married his cousin Mary Sandys of Essex, who, with their only child, James, died while he was in exile, 1554-1560.
After Elizabeth's accension in 1558 Edwin returned to England. He was made bishop of Worcester 21 December 1559 and in 1570 he was promoted to bishop of London. Edwin was consecrated the Archbishop of York on 8 March 1576/1577.
He believed that celibacy was not required of the clergy, he opposed vestments and the making of the sign of the cross, he fought against the encroachments of secular government upon church property, and he opposed Queen Elizabeth I on the subject of images.
He founded of the Hawkshead Grammar School in 1585.
The Archbishop died on 10 July 1588 and was buried in Southwell Minister, Nottinghamshire. His widow survived until 5 February 1610 and was buried in Woodham Ferrars, Essex. According to her epitaph, 'She led a most Christian and holy life, carefully educated her children, wisely governed her familye, charitably relieved the poore, and was a true mirror of a Christian matron.'
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