The Very Reverend Edwin Sandys (1519-1588) was Archbishop of York during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He may have been my 13th great grandfather, depending on whether his 2nd great granddaughter, Elizabeth Gorsuch (1641-after 1680), married my 9th great grandfather, Capt. Cornelius Howard (1637-1680), which is in doubt.
Sandys was sympathetic to the puritan cause in England, and he was one of the people responsible for the translation of the Bishops' Bible, a predecessor of the King James Version. Here's more from a rootsweb genealogical website:
He was educated at Cambridge University, became Master of Catherine Hall, and Vice-Chancellor of that University. On the death of King Edward in 1553, he preached a sermon proclaiming Lady Jane Grey Queen, for which act he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, his cell mate being John Bradford. About a year after, he was pardoned by Queen Mary and removed to Germany where he was followed by his first wife (whose children died in infancy of the plague.) He returned to London arriving on the day of Queen Elizabeth's coronation.
On December 21, 1559 he was made Bishop of Worcester by Queen Elizabeth. In 1570, he was made Bishop of London. In 1577 he was promoted to the Archbishop of York, which office he held until his death.
Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629), the son of the Archbishop, was a member of the council of the Virginia Company at the time the first settlement was established at Jamestown in 1607. He was responsible for the establishment in 1619 of the first representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia House of Burgesses. His sister Anne (1570-1629/30) may have been my 12th great grandmother.
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