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  Edward VI of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward VI (12 October 1537–6 July 1553) was King of England and King of Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death.
Edward was born at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich.
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.
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 Edward VI of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Edward, however, ensured their co-operation by promising a pardon under the Great Seal.
As Edward lay dying, the Duke of Northumberland (according to legend) symbolically snatched the crown from him and gave it to his daughter-in-law, the Lady Jane.
Edward VI's death was kept a secret for a few days so that preparations could be made for Jane's accession.
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Edward VI (October 12, 1537 - July 6, 1553) was King of England from January 28 (crowned at Westminster Abbey on February 20), 1547 to July 6,1553.
Edward VI, the only surviving son of King Henry VIII, was England's first Protestant king.
Edward VI was born on October 12, 1537, the son of Jane Seymour, who died a few days later.
www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_vi_of_england.html   (378 words)

  
 Tudor Monarchs: King Edward VI
Edward was raised a Protestant, even as Mary had been raised a Catholic, and there is no reason to doubt he held his faith as deeply.
Edward, the elder brother who became duke of Somerset in 1547, was closer to Henry than Thomas and adept at handling his mercurial monarch.
Edward VI became king even as his father's past was catching up to the English economy.
englishhistory.net /tudor/monarchs/edward6.html   (9992 words)

  
 Edward VI
The last Edward who had succeeded the throne with an uncle as his protector had died as a result of his uncle's ambitions (Edward V, one of the princes in the tower).
Edward's pet dog was shot in the episode which appeared to be an attempt to seize Edward.
Finally, in Edward's own Treason Act of 1547, it was confirmed that it was high treason to attempt to meddle with the succession which had been laid down by the Statutes of 1544.
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 World Book || Edward VI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Edward VI Edward VI (1537-1553) was king of England and Ireland from 1547 until his death.
Edward's half sister Mary had been next in line for the throne, but she was a devout Roman Catholic.
Edward VI was born in what is now part of London.
www.worldbook.com /features/queen/html/edwardvi.htm   (188 words)

  
 Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
Edward VI, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, was born in 1537.
Northumberland's appeal to Edward's radicalism worked as intended: the dying lad declared his sisters to be bastards and passed the succession to Frances Grey's daughter, Lady Jane Grey, one of the boy's only true friends.
Edward was a highly intellectual and pious lad who fell prey to the machinations of his powerful Council of Regency.
www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon42.html   (779 words)

  
 edwardvireign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Edward was the son of Jane Seymour (his mother had died in childbirth), and had been given a fine humanist education.
Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Edward VI's uncle, was Protector from 1547 to 1549.
In a desperate plan to perpetuate his power, he convinced the dying Edward that the latter’s sister Mary should be excluded from the succession as a Catholic, and he browbeat the council into proclaiming Lady Jane Grey, his daughter-in-law, as queen when the monarch died (1553).
www.d.umn.edu /~aroos/edwardvireign.html   (1240 words)

  
 Archive Photos: Edward VI@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The only son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, King Edward VI of England is illustrated standing before his throne in all his royal finery.
Due to the fact that Edward VI was only ten when he took the crown most of his reign was governed by court-appointed advisors.
Edward VI died of tuberculosis at the age of sixteen.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:30446034&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (155 words)

  
 Edward VI. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Edward succeeded his father to the throne at the age of nine.
By espousing the cause of the disgruntled peasantry, even after the rebellion of Robert Kett, Somerset aroused the opposition of the gentry and the council, thus affording his rival, John Dudley, earl of Warwick (later duke of Northumberland), an opportunity to secure his overthrow (1549).
Fearing the accession of the Catholic princess, Mary (later Mary I), the duke inveigled Edward into settling the crown on Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII’s sister and wife of Northumberland’s son, to follow him in succession.
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 Edward VI
Edward, who was an opinionated young man, agreed to this and when he died in 1553, Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed queen.
Edward was a highly intellectual and pious boy who fell prey to the conspiracies of his powerful Council of Regency.
Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, is invested as Duke of Somerset and Protector of England.
www.royalty.info /british/Edward_VI   (579 words)

  
 Edward VI and Northumberland
Edward VI surrendered all claim to marriage with Mary, Queen of Scots.
Then he persuaded Edward VI to draw up a document (in his own hand) declaring that Mary and Elizabeth were illegitimate, and excluding them from the succession.
Edward VI died 6 July, but Northumberland kept this secret for three days while he prepared to proclaim Jane Grey queen.
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 History of the Monarchy > The Tudors > Edward VI
Edward VI became king at the age of nine upon the death of his father, Henry VIII, and a Regency was created.
On Henry's death, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford and soon to be Duke of Somerset, the new King's eldest uncle, became Protector.
Edward accepted Jane as his heir and, on his death from tuberculosis in 1553, Jane assumed the throne.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page43.asp   (367 words)

  
 EDWARD VI. - LoveToKnow Article on EDWARD VI.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The story that the mothers life was deliberately sacrificed by the performance of Caesarean section is unfounded, although Janes death was little noticed amid the rejoicings which greeted the advent of a male heir to the throne.
But in spite of Holbeins vivacious portrait of Edward at the age of two (now at Hanover), he was a frail child, and a short life was anticipated for him from his early years.
Edward was duke of Cornwall from his birth, but he was never prince of Wales, and he was only nine when he succeeded his father as king of England and Ireland and supreme head of the church (28th of January 1546/7).
84.1911encyclopedia.org /E/ED/EDWARD_VI_.htm   (929 words)

  
 Edward VI on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI.
King Edward VI College in Stourbridge is good with some outstanding features.
The man who saw it all Fifty years ago this week it was the duty of Sir Edward Ford, a private secretary to George VI, to break the news of the King's death to Queen Mary.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/e/edward6.asp   (747 words)

  
 About Edward VI TUDOR (King of England)
The prince was baptized in a splendorous cermony in the chapel oh Hampton Court palace.
On 17 Feb 1547 Edward VI was knighted by Hertford, who was himself created Duke of Somerset and Earl Marshall (an office vacant as a result of the Duke of Norfolk imprisonment).
Edward's youthful passion was to hear sermons, and as he listened he took notes, especially when the preachers touched upon the duties of kings.
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 A child king: Edward VI
Edward VI was crowned at the age of nine; he was a sturdy child and, like his father, grew to enjoy the aristocratic sports of hunting and tilting.
Upon Edward VI's death, Northumberland forced members of the Council to recognize Jane as Edward's designated heir; at the age of 15 she was thus whisked to the Tower of London, where she reigned for nine days and then became a prisoner.
When Edward's health deteriorated alarmingly, Northumberland conspired with him to protect the future of the Reformation by naming the King's cousin Jane Grey as heir; Edward's half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth were again labelled illegitimate.
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 Royalty.nu - The Royal Tudor Dynasty - King Edward VI
Edward VI was born on October 12, 1537.
A council was appointed to rule during Edward's minority, with Edward's uncle, the duke of Somerset (Jane Seymour's brother), as Protector of the country and the king.
Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI by Stephen Alford.
www.royalty.nu /Europe/England/Tudor/EdwardVI.html   (840 words)

  
 webGED: The Bement Family Data Page
Edward was born at Windsor on November 13, 1312, the elder son of King Edward II, of the house of Plantagenet.
Edward was born on November 9, 1841, in Buckingham Palace, London, the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and was christened Albert Edward.
Edward was born at Woodstock in Oxfordshire on June 15, 1330, the son of King Edward III of England.
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 Elizabeth I
Because of the young age of Edward VI, Edward Seymour (another brother of Jane's and therefore the young King's uncle) became Lord Protector of England.
When Edward died in 1553, Jane was proclaimed Queen by her father Henry Grey and her father-in-law John Dudley, who rallied armies to support her.
Elizabeth died on March 24, 1603 at Richmond Palace and was succeeded by James I (James VI of Scotland), the son of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Edward's mother died of child bed fever just days after the young prince was born.
Edward was a somber child, quite taken with the protestant religion, of high intelligence.
By this time, Edward was in the control of the Duke of Northumberland, a selfish man greedy for power.
iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/STUDENTS/Bracewell/e6.htm   (284 words)

  
 Tudors - Edward VI - Protestantism
Edward VI was just nine years old when his father died and he became King.
However, Edward's uncle, Edward Seymour, seized the regency for himself and the title 'Protector of all the realms and dominions of the King's majesty.' Seymour placed Edward firmly under his control by removing him from his home and forbidding contact with his stepmother or sisters.
Edward VI died in 1553 at the age of 15.
www.historyonthenet.com /Tudors/edward_protestantism.htm   (442 words)

  
 1.7 The Reign of Edward VI (1547 - 1553)
Edward came to the throne of England by the act of succession passed by Henry VIII.
He forced Edward VI to declare Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII’s youngest sister to be the heiress to the throne of England after Edward VI whose health was failing.
Edward VI died in 1553 and the crown went to Mary Tudor.
www.pinkmonkey.com /studyguides/subjects/euro_his/chap1/e0101701.htm   (312 words)

  
 BBC - History - Edward VI (1537 - 1553)
Edward was the only legitimate son of Henry VIII whose mother and Henry's third wife, Jane Seymour, died 12 days after his birth.
Somerset's first attempts to repeal treason and heresy laws brought a state of religious and social discord and he was forced to introduce the Prayer Book of 1549 and an Act of Uniformity to enforce it.
Edward's legal successor was the fiercely Catholic Mary, who would undo all of Northumberland's work.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/edward_vi_king.shtml   (415 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Edward VI of England [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Despite their illegitimacy, however, they were reinserted into the line of succession after the Prince Edward, Duke of Cornwall in 1544.
The Prince Edward, Duke of Cornwall was an extremely sickly child; it has been theorised that he suffered from congenital syphilis.
Edward, who was dying in 1553, was enough the master of his own destiny to have concerns about the succession.
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 The Body: The Death of Young King Edward VI
Measles apparently activated an old case of TB and led to the death in 1553 of King Edward VI, son of Henry VIII.
The authors concluded that Edward's measles episode in April 1552, which was quickly followed by a smallpox infection, set the stage for the aggressive emergence of his TB.
Although Edward recovered from the measles and smallpox, by the following January he had developed a cough and was weak.
www.thebody.com /cdc/news_updates_archive/july6_01/edward_IV.html   (390 words)

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