Ursula Sontheil, reputedly born in 1488 to Agatha Sontheil and unknown in a Cave located on the River Nidd, North Yorkshire, Knaresborough England. From an early age she exhibited stunning psychic gifts of foresight and prophecy. She was a contemporary of Nostradamus, but being a woman, was not allowed his level of education and lacked his medicial and astrological training and the forbearance of royal friends at court to nurture and protect her. At the ripe old age of 24, she entered a difficult marriage to Toby Shipton.
She correctly predected the dissolution of the Catholic Church under Henry VIII, the fall of Cardinal Wosley, the untimely death of Henry's son Edward VI, The horrific reign of "Bloody" Mary I, and the asscent of Queen Elizabeth to the throne of England. Many of her visions came true with shocking and specific clarity within her own lifetime. She became feared and revered prophet of Tudor, England. She became known to serf and Lord alike as "Mother Shipton", like Nostradamus, to capture the public imagination. She died in Clifton Yorkshire, England in 1561, five years before Nostradamus.∼English soothsayer and prophetess. Born Ursula Sontheil in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England.
Married Tobias Shipton in York in 1512 at the age of 24. She died in Clifton, Lancashire, England.
She correctly predected the dissolution of the Catholic Church under Henry VIII, the fall of Cardinal Wosley, the untimely death of Henry's son Edward VI, The horrific reign of "Bloody" Mary I, and the asscent of Queen Elizabeth to the throne of England. Many of her visions came true with shocking and specific clarity within her own lifetime. She became feared and revered prophet of Tudor, England. She became known to serf and Lord alike as "Mother Shipton", like Nostradamus, to capture the public imagination. She died in Clifton Yorkshire, England in 1561, five years before Nostradamus.∼English soothsayer and prophetess. Born Ursula Sontheil in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England.
Married Tobias Shipton in York in 1512 at the age of 24. She died in Clifton, Lancashire, England.
Ursula Sontheil, reputedly born in 1488 to Agatha Sontheil and unknown in a Cave located on the River Nidd, North Yorkshire, Knaresborough England. From an early age she exhibited stunning psychic gifts of foresight and prophecy. She was a contemporary of Nostradamus, but being a woman, was not allowed his level of education and lacked his medicial and astrological training and the forbearance of royal friends at court to nurture and protect her. At the ripe old age of 24, she entered a difficult marriage to Toby Shipton.
She correctly predected the dissolution of the Catholic Church under Henry VIII, the fall of Cardinal Wosley, the untimely death of Henry's son Edward VI, The horrific reign of "Bloody" Mary I, and the asscent of Queen Elizabeth to the throne of England. Many of her visions came true with shocking and specific clarity within her own lifetime. She became feared and revered prophet of Tudor, England. She became known to serf and Lord alike as "Mother Shipton", like Nostradamus, to capture the public imagination. She died in Clifton Yorkshire, England in 1561, five years before Nostradamus.∼English soothsayer and prophetess. Born Ursula Sontheil in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England.
Married Tobias Shipton in York in 1512 at the age of 24. She died in Clifton, Lancashire, England.
She correctly predected the dissolution of the Catholic Church under Henry VIII, the fall of Cardinal Wosley, the untimely death of Henry's son Edward VI, The horrific reign of "Bloody" Mary I, and the asscent of Queen Elizabeth to the throne of England. Many of her visions came true with shocking and specific clarity within her own lifetime. She became feared and revered prophet of Tudor, England. She became known to serf and Lord alike as "Mother Shipton", like Nostradamus, to capture the public imagination. She died in Clifton Yorkshire, England in 1561, five years before Nostradamus.∼English soothsayer and prophetess. Born Ursula Sontheil in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England.
Married Tobias Shipton in York in 1512 at the age of 24. She died in Clifton, Lancashire, England.
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