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Mother. Margery Wentworth. Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, KG, PC ( c. 1508 – 20 March 1549) was a brother of Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII. [1] With his brother, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector of England, he vied for control of their nephew, the young King Edward VI ( r. 1547–1553 ).
Apr 8, 2024 · Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour (born c. 1508—died March 20, 1549, London, England) was the lord high admiral of England from 1547 to 1549. His political intrigues led to his execution for treason and thereby contributed to the downfall in 1549 of his elder brother, Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, who was lord protector (regent) for the young king Edward VI.
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Jul 20, 2023 · Thomas Seymour was born in 1508 at Wolf Hall, the Seymour family’s idyllic country seat where Henry VIII is apocryphally rumored to have wooed Thomas’s sister, Jane. A hasty royal romance did eventually blossom, and in May of 1536, mere days after Anne Boleyn’s execution, Jane and Henry were married.
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Mar 20, 2010 · Thomas Seymour was a very dissatisfied man. Although he was Lord High Admiral and had been the husband of Katherine Parr, the dowager queen, his brother Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, had been made Lord High Protector of England and was ruling the country on behalf of the boy king, Edward VI – his brother had all the power.
After Henry VIII’s death in 1547, Elizabeth went to live with her stepmother, Katherine Parr, leading to a near-disaster. In 1547, Katherine Parr, Elizabeth's stepmother, married Thomas Seymour, the Lord Admiral and King Edward's younger Seymour uncle. Thomas was vain, handsome, ambitious and extremely jealous of his elder brother's power as ...
Diabolical Facts About Thomas Seymour, Henry VIII's Scheming Courtier. Thomas Seymour was an older brother of Queen Jane Seymour and therefore the brother-in-law to Henry VIII of England. A favorite at the Tudor court, he was remembered for being handsome, swaggering, and charming, but ultimately shallow and too ambitious for his own good.
Thomas Seymour was created Baron Seymour of Sudeley on 16th February 1547, Lord High Amdiral on 17th February and was also elected to the Order of the Garter that year. He also secretly married Catherine Parr, who was now the dowager queen around May 1547 and the couple lived together at Chelsea with Seymour's ward, Lady Jane Grey, and ...
