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Paternal Family Tree: Seymour
Edward Seymour and Margaret Walshe were married. He the son of Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset and Catherine Filliol.
In 1527 [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 27) and [his mother] Catherine Filliol (age 20) were married.
In 1529 Edward Seymour was born to [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 29) and [his mother] Catherine Filliol (age 22) at Wulf aka Wolf Hall, Wiltshire [Map]. Paternity was questioned by Edward after it was alleged that Catherine had had an affair with 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.
In April 1536 [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 36) and [his step-mother] Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 39) were married.
On 5th June 1536 [his father] Edward Seymour (age 36) was created 1st Viscount Beauchamp. See Letter 1074 and Letter 1075.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1540 Edward Seymour (age 11) disinherited.
After 16th February 1547. The date uncertain but likely to be after the funeral of Henry VIII (deceased) King Edward VI of England and Ireland (age 9) made a number of new appointments although given King Edward VI of England and Ireland was only nine years old at the time, the titles were, in effect, bestowed by [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 47).
William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton (age 35) was created 1st Marquess Northampton.
[his uncle] Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour (age 39) was created 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley and appointed Lord High Admiral.
New Garter Knights:
318th Henry Grey 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 30).
319th Edward Stanley 3rd Earl of Derby (age 37).
320th Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour.
321st William Paget 1st Baron Paget Beaudasert (age 41).
John Carey (age 56) and Henry Huberthorne were knighted by King Edward VI of England and Ireland.
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On 10th September 1547 an English army commanded by [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 47) defeated a Scottish army commanded by James Hamilton 2nd Earl Arran (age 31) and Archibald Douglas 6th Earl Angus (age 58) at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh at Musselburgh.
The English army included John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 43), Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 47), Miles Partridge and Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth (age 22). John Thynne (age 32) and Edmund Brydges 2nd Baron Chandos (age 25) were knighted.
William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (age 26) accompanied Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset.
Edward Shelley of Worminghurst Park (age 44) was killed.
John Forbes 6th Lord Forbes (age 82), Christopher Coningsby (age 31) and Edward Clere were killed.
John Thynne was knighted after the battle.
The Scottish army included John Gordon 11th Earl Sutherland (age 22) who commanded the Rearguard and Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis (age 32). John Stewart, Robert Douglas (age 41), John Livingston, Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield and Hugh Montgomerie were killed. John Hay 4th Lord Hay was captured but soon released.
Malcolm Fleming 3rd Lord Fleming (age 53) was killed. His son James (age 13) succeeded 4th Lord Fleming. Barbara Hamilton Lady Fleming by marriage Lord Fleming.
Robert Graham Master of Montrose was killed.
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On 1st December 1547 Thomas Pomeroy 18th Baron Pomeroy (age 44) sold the castle, park and manor of Berry Pomeroy to [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 47) who gave it to his son Edward Seymour (age 18). It isn't clear whether the Barony of Berry Pomeroy was part of the transaction.
On 3rd June 1550 [his brother-in-law] John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick (age 23) and [his half-sister] Anne Seymour Countess of Warwick (age 12) were married at Sheen Palace [Map]. She the daughter of [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 50) and [his step-mother] Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 53). He the son of John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 46) and Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland (age 41). They were fifth cousin once removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Diary of Edward VI. 3rd June 1550. The King came to Schein, wher was a mariag mad(e) betwen the [his brother-in-law] lord Lisle (age 23), th'erle of Warwic's (age 46) sone, and the ladi [his half-sister] Anne (age 12), daughter to the [his father] 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:
The lord Edward (age 21).1a
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 must have held out a brother's hand to Seymour, 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 — 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 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 was remarried on the 29th April, 1555, to [his future brother-in-law] 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, and the younger surviving son was the celebrated sir [his nephew] 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, the duke of Somerset's eldest son. [Note. In 1550 the Duke's eldest son [his brother] 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.
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In 1551 Edward Seymour (age 22) was imprisoned at Tower of London [Map].
On 22nd January 1552 [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of 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 of Somerset was restored to the titles in 1660.
In January 1553 [his brother-in-law] John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick (age 26) by writ of acceleration 2nd Earl Warwick through a summons to Parliament. [his half-sister] Anne Seymour Countess of Warwick (age 15) by marriage Countess Warwick.
On 29th April 1555 [his brother-in-law] Edward Unton (age 21) and [his half-sister] Anne Seymour Countess of Warwick (age 17) were married. They had seven children. She the daughter of [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset and [his step-mother] Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 58).
In 1559 [his half-brother] Edward Seymour 1st Earl Hertford (age 19) was created 1st Earl Hertford, 1st Baron Beauchamp of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset.
Before 25th December 1560 [his half-brother] Edward Seymour 1st Earl Hertford (age 21) and [his sister-in-law] Catherine Grey Countess Hertford (age 20) were married in secret by an anonymous clergyman at Hertford House Canon Row. She by marriage Countess Hertford. She the daughter of Henry Grey 1st Duke of Suffolk and Frances Brandon Duchess of Suffolk. He the son of [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset and [his step-mother] Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 63). They were sixth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
Around 1563 [his son] Edward Seymour 1st Baronet was born to Edward Seymour (age 34) and Margaret Walshe at Berry Pomeroy Castle [Map]. He married 19th September 1576 Elizabeth Champernowne Baroness Seymour and had issue.
On 1st December 1566 Thomas Pomeroy 18th Baron Pomeroy (age 63) died. Baron Pomeroy Feudal extinct. It may possibly have been sold with the manor of Berry Pomeroy in 1547 in which case it descends through Edward Seymour (age 37).
On 19th September 1576 [his son] Edward Seymour 1st Baronet (age 13) and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Champernowne Baroness Seymour were married.
In 1582 [his half-brother] Edward Seymour 1st Earl Hertford (age 42) and [his sister-in-law] Frances Howard Countess Hertford (age 28) were married. She by marriage Countess Hertford. He the son of [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset and [his step-mother] Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 85). They were half sixth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 16th September 1582 [his brother-in-law] Edward Unton (age 48) died. He was buried at All Saints' Church, Faringdon. The inscription on his monument ... Here lyeth Sir Edward Unton, Knight of the Noble Order of the Bathe, whoe married [his half-sister] Anne Countess of Warwick (age 44), daughter of [his father] Edwarde Seymer Duke of Somersett and Protector of England, by whome he had ffive sonnes, whereof 3 died younge in the life of their father; Two, namelye [his nephew] Edwarde (age 26) and [his nephew] Henry (age 24) onely, survyved and succeeded him, the one after the other in their father's inheritance; and two daughters, [his niece] Anne (age 27) married to Sir Valentine Knightley (age 27), Knight, and [his niece] Scissil (age 21) married to John Wentworth (age 18), Esquire.
In 1588 [his half-sister] Anne Seymour Countess of Warwick (age 50) died.
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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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In 1593 Edward Seymour (age 64) died at Tower of London [Map].
On 27th May 1601 [his half-brother] Edward Seymour 1st Earl Hertford (age 62) and Frances Howard Duchess Lennox and Richmond (age 22) were married. She by marriage Countess Hertford. The difference in their ages was 39 years. He the son of [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset and [his step-mother] Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset. They were half third cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 6th April 1621 [his half-brother] Edward Seymour 1st Earl Hertford (age 81) died. He was buried at Salisbury Cathedral [Map].
Tudor Tracts Chapter 4. My Lord Marshal, Edward Shelley, little Preston, Brampton, and Gerningham, Boulogners; Ratcliffe, the Lord Fitzwalter's brother; Sir John Clere's son and heir; Digges of Kent; Ellerker, a Pensioner; Segrave. Of my Lord Protector's band, my Lord Edward, his Grace's son, Captain of the same band; Stanley, Woodhouse, Coonisby, Horqill, Morris, Dennis, Arthur, and Atkinson; with others in the forerank, not being able, in this earnest assault, both to tend [attend] to their fight afore, and to the retire behind: the Scots, again (well considering hereby how weak they remained) caught courage afresh, ran sharply for* ward upon them, and, without any mercy, slew every man of our men that abode furthest in press; a six more, of Boulogners and others, than I have here named: in all. to the number of twenty-six, and the most part, gentlemen.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 12 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 18 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 13 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 7 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 12 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 20 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
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 of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Darrell
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Darrell
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Darrell of Littlecote
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Darrell 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Stourton 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stourton 1st Baron Stourton 6 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Stourtron 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Father: Edward Seymour 1st Duke of 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 of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Clifford 7th Baron Clifford 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Ros Baroness Clifford 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward 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 of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Boteler Baroness Ferrers Wem 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Saye 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Saye Baroness Despencer 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John 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 of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cockayne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cockayne 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ida Grey 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John 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