Maurits Sheldon

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Maurits Sheldon was born in 1420, in Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England as the son of Ralph Sheldon. He had at least 1 son. He died in 1495, in Donnington by Wellington, Shropshire, England, at the age of 75.

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Maurits Sheldon
1420–1495
Lord John Sheldon Van Rowley
1450–1525

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    1455 · Wars of the Roses

    Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name in most cases from Sheldon in Derbyshire, but sometimes from Sheldon in Warwickshire or Devon, or from Sheldon in Chippenham (Wiltshire). The Derbyshire place, recorded in Domesday Book as Scelhadun, probably takes its name from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + the placename Haddon, itself from Old English hǣth ‘heath’ + dūn ‘hill’. The Warwickshire and Wiltshire placenames probably derive from Old English scelf + dūn, while the Devon placename probably comes from Old English scelf + denu ‘valley’.

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