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  Duke of Somerset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Seymour (1538-1621) was a son of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, from his second marriage.
The 1st baronet was Edward Seymour (1556-1613) grandson of the 1st Duke of Somerset, son of Edward Seymour (1527/1535-1593) who was the 1st duke's eldest son from his first marriage to Catherine Fillol.
Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519-1536) (extinct)
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 Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward was the eldest brother of Jane Seymour, who would become King Henry's third Queen consort.
His position, although not his office of Protector, was taken by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick, later 1st Duke of Northumberland, and he was executed for treason at Tower Hill on January 22, 1552.
The earldom was later temporarily regained by Somerset's son, Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford.
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 SEYMOUR - LoveToKnow Article on SEYMOUR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Edward Seymour, 4th baronet (1633I 708), speaker of the House of Commons, was elected member of parliament for Gloucester in 1661, and his influence at Court together with his natural abilities procured for him a position of weight in the House of Commons.
Seymour was not less arrogant than his relative the Proud Duke of Somerset; but he was described by Burnet as the ablest man of his party, the first speaker of the House of Commons that was not bred to the law; a graceful man, bold and quick, and of high birth.
Henry Seymour (1729-1805), a son of the 8th duke of Somersets brother Francis, was elected to the House of Commons in 1763; in 1778 he went to France, and fixing his residence at Prunay, near Versailles, he became the lover of Madame du Barry, many of whose letters to him are preserved in Paris.
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 Somerset, Edward Seymour, duke of articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Somerset, Edward Seymour, duke of SOMERSET, EDWARD SEYMOUR, DUKE OF [Somerset, Edward Seymour, duke of] 1506?-1552, protector of England.
Seymour of Sudeley, Thomas Seymour, Baron SEYMOUR OF SUDELEY, THOMAS SEYMOUR, BARON [Seymour of Sudeley, Thomas Seymour, Baron] 1508?-1549, English nobleman.
Edward VI EDWARD VI [Edward VI] 1537-53, king of England (1547-53), son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour.
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Seymour's connexions thus ensured his promotion, and he elected governor of the state over Washington Hunt_(1811-1867), quickly won the favour of the king, who gave him many grants of the Whig candidate, who had defeated him in 185o.
Seymour was a con- post of master of the ordnance for life, becoming admiral of the servative on national issues and supported the administrations fleet a few months later, in which capacity he was charged with of Pierce and Buchanan; he advocated compromise to avoid guarding the Channel against French invasion.
Somerset strove ineffectually to save his brother from 1886 in Utica, at the home of his sister, who was the wife of ruin, and in January 1549 Seymour was arrested and sent to the Roscoe Conkling.
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 Edward VI of England : search word
Edward was born at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich.
The Duke of Somerset became extremely unpopular, and was deposed by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick.
Edward died in Greenwich on 6 July 1553, either of tuberculosis or of arsenic poisoning or of syphilis.
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 AllRefer.com - Somerset, Edward Seymour, duke of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Somerset, Edward Seymour, duke of 1506?–1552, protector of England.
On the death (1547) of Henry VIII Seymour gained custody of the young heir, Edward VI (who was Seymour's nephew) and was named protector of the realm by the council of regency.
Somerset was released in 1550, but a revival of his influence led Warwick to arrest (1551) him again, whereupon he was convicted (1552) on a charge of felony and beheaded.
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 Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, (~1506 - 1552) was Lord Protector of England in the period between the death of King Henry VIII in 1547 and Seymour's indictment in 1549.
His position was taken by John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, and Edward Seymour was executed for treason at Tower Hill in January 1552.
Edward's son, Edward Seymour (1539-1621), 2nd Earl of Hertford, was the Duke of Somerset's son by his second wife.
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 History of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His son, Edward II, suffered a massive defeat at Bannockburn; but the campaign continued until the early years of Edward III, and was only finally abandoned after the conclusion of the Treaty of Northampton in 1328.
Somerset, disliked by the Regency Council for his autocratic methods, was removed from power by John Dudley, who is known as Lord President Northumberland.
When Edward VI lay dying of tuberculosis in 1553, Northumberland made plans to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne and marry her to his son, so that he could remain the power behind the throne.
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 Somerset, Edward Seymour, duke of
Edward VI (who was Seymour's nephew) and was named protector of the realm by the council of regency.
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of - Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of, c.1500–1550, lord chancellor of England.
Seymour of Sudeley, Thomas Seymour, Baron - Seymour of Sudeley, Thomas Seymour, Baron, 1508?–1549, English nobleman.
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 Brief History of Edward VII
Edward VI (12 October 1537-6 July 1553) was King of England and King of Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death.
Edward's physical difficulties did not impede his education; on the contrary, the young prince was a very bright child, already able to speak Latin at the age of seven.
The Duke of Somerset, however, did not encourage persecution; rather, he refrained from it, as he feared the wrath of Europe's powerful Catholic monarchs, especially the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. One of the Duke of Somerset's primary aims was to achieve a union between England and Scotland.
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 Edward SEYMOUR (1° D. Somerset)
Edward Seymour, brother of Jane, Queen Consort (1536-37) to Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI, being 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir of Sir John Seymour of Wolf Hall, Wilts (d.
Somerset tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the Scots to join a voluntary union with England, but, when his appeal was rejected, he destroyed all chances of reconciliation by invading Scotland and defeating the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie (10 Sep 1547), and completely alienated the Scots when he laid waste to SE Scotland.
Somerset attempted to aid the rural poor by forbidding enclosures -that is, the taking of arable common land by the propertied classes to use as pasturage--and this action led to his downfall.
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 NPG 4165; King Edward VI and the Pope (includes John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford; Thomas Cranmer; King Edward VI; King ...
1 of 5 portraits of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (1502?-1553), Lord Protector of Edward VI.
The painting was probably produced between 1568 and 1571, to commemorate the anti-papal policies of Edward VI and to celebrate the successful re-establishement of the Church of England under Elizabeth I.
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 Edward VI
The government was entrusted to his uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (who fell from power in 1549), and then to the Earl of Warwick, John Dudley, later created Duke of Northumberland.
He was succeeded by his half-sister Mary I. Edward became a staunch Protestant, and during his reign the Reformation progressed in England under Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (see Reformation, England).
Edward died of tuberculosis, and his will, probably prepared by Northumberland, set aside that of his father so as to exclude his half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, from the succession.
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 SOMERSET, EDWARD SEYMO... - Online Information article about SOMERSET, EDWARD SEYMO...
SOMERSET, ROBERT CARR (or KER), EARL OF (e.
Somerset apparently thought that the religious question could be settled by public discussion, and throughout 1547 and 1548 England went as it pleased so far as See also:
The majority scouted Somerset's notions of liberty and deeply resented his championship of the poor against greedy landlords and capitalists.
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 Elizabeth I of England Biography
Henry VIII died in 1547, to be succeeded by Edward VI.
The marriage never took place, and after Lord Seymour attempted to seize power from his brother, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector and head of the Council of Regency, he was executed.
Edward had penned a will which purported to abrogate Henry's; it, contravening the Act of Succession 1544, excluded both the Lady Mary and the Lady Elizabeth, and declared that the King's heiress was the Lady Jane Grey.
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 thePeerage.com - Lady Beatrice Thynne and others
She was the daughter of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and Anne Stanhope.
She married, firstly, John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, son of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland and Jane Guilford, on 3 June 1550.
She was the daughter of Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge and Elizabeth Bennett.
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 Northumberland, John Dudley, Duke of
He was chief minister from 1551 until Edward VI's death in 1553.
Edward VI Somerset, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
Red and blue were taken from the arms of Paris.
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 Help.com - regent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the throne of the Grand Duke of Finland was vacant and according to the constitution of 1772, a regent was installed by the Finnish Parliament during the first two years of Finnish independence, before the country was declared a republic.
Louis II, Duke of Bourbon and John, Duke of Berry (1388-1407), during the insanity of their nephew, Charles VI Isabella of Bavaria (1417-1420)and then Henry V of England, during the insanity of her husband and his father-in-law, Charles VI; they were opposed by
Duke Adolph of Nassau was Regent from April 8, 1889 to May 3, 1889 and from November 4, 1890 to November 23, 1890, during the terminal illness of Grand Duke William III.
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 Berkshire History: Faringdon Monument to Sir Edwrad Unton & the Countess of Warwick
She was the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, the Protector of England, and was the widow of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick who died s.p.
Sir Edward Unton was made a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1559.
Of the sons, Edward was M.P. for Berkshire in 1585 and 1586 and a Colonel commanding two hundred men of the County raised in defence against the Spanish invasion in 1588.
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 Elizabeth_I_of_England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Catherine Parr, newly widowed, married Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Edward VI's uncle and brother of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector of England at the time, and took Elizabeth into her household.
The plot was formed by Seymour and John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, whose son Guilford was married to Jane.
She did not, however, give up her claim to the French Crown, which had been maintained since the reign of Edward III during the period of the Hundred Years' War in the fourteenth century, and was not renounced until the reign of George III during the eighteenth century.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
The Duke of Somerset, however, did not encourage persecution; rather, he refrained from it, as he feared the wrath of Europe's powerful Catholic monarchs, especially Edward's half-cousin, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. One of the Duke of Somerset's primary aims was to achieve a union between England and Scotland.
In 1554, when Mary faced Wyatt's Rebellion, the Duke of Suffolk once again attempted to put his daughter on the Throne.
Mistaken identities also feature in the American author Mark Twain's novel, The Prince and the Pauper, in which the young Edward VI accidentally and a pauper boy of identical appearance accidentally replace each other.
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 Conqueror4
Charles Seymour, Earl of Hertford, * & + 1683.
Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1749), * 1684, + 1750, Md. 1715, Frances Thynne, + 1754, d.
of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis (1804).
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 My Lines - Person Page 424
She was the daughter of Fulk, 1st Lord Strange of Blackmere and Eleanore Giffard.
She was the daughter of William, 1st Lord Ros of Helmsley and Maud de Vaux.
He was the son of Pain, 1st Lord Tibetot and Agnes de Ros.
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 AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: Economic treatise by Sir Thomas Smith
Scope and content/abstract: Manuscript volume entitled 'Polices to reduce this Realme of Englande unto a prosperus wealthe and Estate', with a dedicatory epistle to Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, possibly written by Sir Thomas Smith in 1549 (as suggested by John Strype in his Life of Sir Thomas Smith, 1698).
Archival history: The manuscript was written and presented to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector, in 1549, possibly by Sir Thomas Smith.
It was sold by Baker and Leigh in 1776 as part of the collection of Richard Blyke, Deputy Auditor of the Imprest, by whom it may possibly have been found in the Exchequer (cf Reginald Rye Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Autograph Letters in the University Library, 1921).
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