John Sulyard

Who is John Sulyard?

John Sulyard, of Wetherden, Suffolk, was an English politician.

Sulyard was the eldest son of John Sulyard of Wetherden and Margaret Baker, daughter of Robert Baker of Wetherden and was educated at Clifford’s Inn. He married three times, firstly to Elizabeth Bedingfield, daughter of Sir Edmund Bedingfield of Oxborough, Norfolk, by whom he had one daughter. By 1541, he had married his second wife, Elizabeth Jerningham, daughter of Sir John Jerningham of Somerleyton, Suffolk; they had two sons and two daughters. His third wife was Alice Carvell, daughter of Humphrey Carvell of Wiggenhall St. Mary, Norfolk.