Biography of Edward Seymour 1529-1593
Paternal Family Tree: Seymour
1537 Birth and Christening Edward VI
1552 Trial and Execution of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset and his Supporters
Edward Seymour and Margaret Walshe were married. He the son of Edward Seymour 1st Duke Somerset and Catherine Filliol.
In 1527 [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke Somerset (age 27) and [his mother] Catherine Filliol (age 20) were married.
In 1529 Edward Seymour was born to Edward Seymour 1st Duke Somerset (age 29) and Catherine Filliol (age 22) at Wulf Hall, Wiltshire [Map]. Paternity was questioned by Edward after it was alleged that Catherine had had an affairwith her father-in-law John Seymour 1474-1536. He and his brother were excluded in 1540 from their paternal and maternal inheritances and all their claims to their father's dignities being postponed to his children by his second wife.
Around 1535 [his mother] Catherine Filliol (age 28) died.
Before 09 Mar 1535 [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke Somerset (age 35) and [his step-mother] Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 38) were married. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 05 Jun 1536 [his father] Edward Seymour (age 36) was created 1st Viscount Beauchamp. See Letter 1074 and Letter 1075.
On 15 Oct 1537 the future Edward VI was christened by Bishop John Stokesley (age 62) at the Chapel Royal in Hampton Court Palace [Map]. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (age 48) performed the Baptismal Rites, and was appointed Godfather. Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk (age 64) and Queen Mary I of England and Ireland (age 21) were Godparents.
King Edward VI of England and Ireland was created Duke Cornwall, 1st Earl Chester.
Henry Bourchier 2nd Earl Essex 3rd Count Eu carried the Salt. Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 53) was Godfather and supported the Marchioness of Exeter. Richard Long (age 43) was knighted. Thomas Cromwell 1st Earl Essex (age 52), Philip Boteler (age 45), John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford (age 66) and John Gage (age 57) attended. Mary Scrope (age 61) carried Lady Mary's train. Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex (age 54) carried a covered basin. Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex (age 54) carried the canopy.
[his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke Somerset (age 37) helped his young niece the future Elizabeth I to carry the Crisom. Henry Courtenay 1st Marquess Exeter (age 41) supported his wife Gertrude Blount Marchioness of Exeter (age 34) to carry the child. Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde (age 60) bore a taper of virgin wax. William Fitzalan 18th Earl Arundel (age 61) carried the train of the Prince's robe. Christopher Barker proclaimed the Prince's titles. Arthur Hopton (age 48) attended.
Edward Seymour 1st Duke Somerset (age 37) was created 1st Earl Hertford.
Nicholas Carew (age 41), Francis Bryan (age 47), Anthony Browne (age 37) and John Russell 1st Earl Bedford (age 52) surrounded the font.
Henry Knyvet of Charlton Wiltshire (age 27), Edward Neville (age 66), [his uncle] Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour (age 29), Richard Long (age 43) and John Wallop (age 47) carried the canopy.
Bishop Robert Parfew aka Warton and Bishop John Bell attended.
William Fitzwilliam 1st Earl of Southampton (age 47) was created 1st Earl of Southampton. Mabel Clifford Countess Southampton (age 55) by marriage Countess of Southampton.
Diary of Edward VI. 03 Jun 1550. The King came to Schein, wher was a mariag mad(e) betwen the lord Lisle (age 23), th'erle of Warwic's (age 46) sone, and the ladi [his half-sister] Anne (age 12), daughter to the duke of Somerset (age 50)3, wich don and a faire diner made, and daunsing finished, the King and the ladies went into tow chamhers mad of bowis, wher first he saw six gentlemen of on(e) side and six of another rune the course of the field, twis over, Ther names hiere do folow:
Sir Jhon Aplebey.
(The rest omitted.)
And afterward cam three mascers of one side and tow of another, wich rane fowre courses apece. Ther names be (left blank).
Last of al came the count of Ragonne,2a with 3 Italians, who ran with al the gentlemen fowre courses, and afterward fought at tornay. And so, after souper, he (the King) retorned to Whestmuster.
Note 3. On this occasion Dudley (age 46) must have held out a brother's hand to Seymour (age 50), and hopes must have been entertained that the alliance would cement their future friendship, and secure the position of both parties. The result, as is well known, was otherwise. Little is on record of the history, and less of the character, of the bridegroom. When earl of Warwick, he was condemned with his father the duke of Northumberland in 1553, and he died without children in 1554, within ten days after his release from the Tower. The bride (age 12) — one of the "trois belles chanteresses "(as they were styled by the poet Ronsard) who under the guidance of their tutor Denisot celebrated in French verse the death and virtues of Marguerite de Valois, queen of Navarre — suffered severely from the miseries to which her high birth subjected her. After losing her father by decapitation in 1552, and having her husband (age 23) condemned to the like fate in the following year, — after attending him in the Tower, and losing him (probably from the effects of his confinement), — the countess (age 12) was remarried on the 29th April, 1555, to Edward Unton (age 16), a Berkshire squire, afterwards a knight of the Bath. By an inquisition taken many years after, it was found that she had been a lunatic from the year 1566. She was however the mother of seven children by sir Edward Unton (age 16), and the younger surviving son was the celebrated sir Henry Unton, ambassador in France, whose dispatches have been edited for the Roxburghe Club by Mr. Stevenson. For more minute particulars relative to the countess see the memoir of the Unton Family, by the present Editor, prefixed to the Unton Inventories, printed for the Berkshire Ashmolean Society in 1841.
Note 1a. Lord Edward Seymour (age 21), the duke of Somerset's (age 50) eldest son. [Note. In 1550 the Duke's eldest son John Seymour (age 23) was alive; he would die in 1552.]
Note 2a. On the 20th April, in the year before us, the council had issued a "warrant to (blank) to pay cxxvli. to the young conte Rangone for the half-yeres pension of one thousand crownes by the yere assigned to him during his abode in the King's majesties service, as well in respect of the young gentleman's good will and towardnesse, as for the love of his father, being a nobleman of Italie, and one that hath alwaies borne unto the King's majestic and his most noble father a singuler afiection: for a token whereof he sent this his eldest sonne hither to serve his highnesse." (Council Book.) This annuity of 250l. to Pallavicino Eangoni, during pleasure, was confirmed by letters patent dated the 20th Jan. 4 Edw. VI. 1550-1, printed in Rymer, xv. 252.
In 1551 Edward Seymour (age 22) was imprisoned at Tower of London [Map].
On 22 Jan 1552 [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke Somerset (age 52) was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. He was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map]. Duke Somerset, Earl Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp forfeit. His great-grandson William Seymour 2nd Duke Somerset was restored to the titles in 1660.
Around 1563 [his son] Edward Seymour 1st Baronet was born to Edward Seymour (age 34) and Margaret Walshe at Berry Pomeroy Castle [Map].
On 19 Sep 1576 [his son] Edward Seymour 1st Baronet (age 13) and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Champernowne Baroness Seymour were married.
In 1593 Edward Seymour (age 64) died at Tower of London [Map].
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Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Seymour 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Seymour 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Esturney
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Seymour 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Williams
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Seymour 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Coker
GrandFather: John Seymour 9 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Darell
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Darell
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Darell of Littlecote
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Darell 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Stourton 5 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stourton 1st Baron Stourton 6 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Stourtron 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Father: Edward Seymour 1st Duke Somerset 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Wentworth
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Wentworth
Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Dronsfield
Great x 2 Grandfather: Philip Wentworth 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Despencer 2nd Baron Despencer 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margery Despencer 3rd Baroness Despencer, Baroness Ros 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tiptoft Baroness Despencer 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Wentworth 4th Baron Despencer 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Clifford 6th Baron Clifford 5 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Clifford 7th Baron Clifford 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Ros Baroness Clifford 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Clifford Baroness Despencer 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry "Hotspur" Percy 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Percy Countess of Westmoreland 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Mortimer Baroness Camoys Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Margery Wentworth 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Saye 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Saye 7 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Boteler Baroness Ferrers Wem 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Saye 8 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Saye Baroness Despencer 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cheney
Great x 3 Grandfather: Lawrence Cheney
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cheney 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cockayne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cockayne 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ida Grey 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Edward Seymour 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Filiol
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Filiol
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Filiol
GrandFather: William Filiol of Woodlands and Filiols Hall
Mother: Catherine Filliol