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Edward Seymour, 1. Duke of Somerset KG war ein englischer Staatsmann und Bruder der Königin Jane Seymour, der dritten Ehefrau König Heinrichs VIII. Nach der Heirat seiner Schwester mit dem König machte er Karriere bei Hofe, erhielt in rascher Folge die Titel des Viscount Beauchamp und des Earl of Hertford und die Ämter des Kanzlers von Nordwales und des Gouverneurs und Hauptmanns von Jersey.
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. Edward Seymour was the eldest brother of Jane Seymour, who became King Henry VIII 's third wife in 1536. The death of his sister following the birth of her only child, Edward, in 1537 diminished Hertford's influence at court, but he remained prominent, particularly in military affairs, for the remainder of ...
Occupation. British peer. Evelyn Francis Edward Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset DSO OBE DL (1 May 1882 – 26 April 1954) was a British Army officer, landowner, peer, and for eight years Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. He was also a baronet. Between 1 May 1882 and 5 May 1931, he was styled as Lord Seymour .
8. Okt. 2023 · Somerset had been acting as Lord Protector since he'd been appointed by the executors of Henry VIII's will on 1st February 1547, three days after Henry VIII's death and the accession of nine-year-old Edward VI. He set about a programme of religious reform with the help of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, culminating in the Act of Uniformity, which saw the 1549 Book of Common Prayer ...
Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (née Stanhope; before 1512 – 16 April 1587) was the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500–1552), who held the office of Lord Protector during the first part of the reign of their nephew King Edward VI. The Duchess was briefly the most powerful woman in England. During her husband's
Edward was “enfant d’honneur” to Mary Tudor at her marriage with Louis XII. in 1514, served in Suffolk’s campaign in France in 1523, being knighted by the duke at Roze on the 1st of November, and accompanied Wolsey on his embassy to France in 1527. Appointed esquire of the body to Henry VIII. in 1529, he grew in favour with the king ...
12. Feb. 2019 · Edward Seymour, 1 st Duke of Somerset, was the brother of Henry VIII’s third wife, Jane Seymour. He was Earl of Hertford under Henry VIII and then became Duke of Somerset on the accession of Edward VI. He was Lord Protector during the beginning of Edward’s minority between 1547 and 1549 and was eventually executed in 1552 for plotting against his successor as Protector – John Dudley, the ...
