John Seymour (1474–1536)
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Sir John Seymour,
Family
The
Sir John Seymour was born around 1474,
Career
Seymour succeeded his father in 1492 and was knighted in the field by
Offices held
His offices included:[9]
- Warden, Savernake Forest, Wiltshire October 1491
- Sheriff, Wiltshire 1498–1499, 1507–1508, 1518–19, 1524 – January 1526
- Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset1515–1516, 1526–1527
- Justice of the peace Wiltshire 1499–1536
- Steward, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham's lands, Wiltshire by 1503
- Knight of the bodyby 1509
- Constable and door-ward, Bristol Castle, Gloucestershire August 1509, jointly. (with son Edward) July 1517
- Under captain, Dragon of Greenwich 1512
- Commissioner subsidy, Wiltshire 1512, 1514, 1515, Wiltshire and Salisbury 1523
- Commissioner musters, Wiltshire 1513
- Commissioner loan 1524
- Steward, manor of Kingston Lisle, Berkshire before 1513
- Forester, Grovely, Wiltshire February 1526
- Groom of the Bedchamber1532
Marriage and issue
Sir John Seymour married Margery Wentworth (c.1478–18 October 1550) on 22 October 1494.[10] The couple had ten children:[10][11]
- John Seymour (died 15 July 1510),[12][13] eldest son and heir apparent who predeceased his father without progeny. His monumental brass survives set into the floor of Great Bedwyn church, inscribed as follows:[14]
- "Here lyeth the body of John Seymour sonne and here of Sr John Seymour, Knight, & of Margery oon of the daughters of Sr Henry Wentworth, Knight, which decessed ye xv day of July the yer of or Lord MVCX on whos soule Jh(es)u have m(er)cy & of yor charitie say a Ave (Maria)"
- "Here lyeth the body of John Seymour sonne and here of Sr John Seymour, Knight, & of Margery oon of the daughters of Sr Henry Wentworth, Knight, which decessed ye xv day of July the yer of or Lord MVCX on whos soule Jh(es)u have m(er)cy & of yor charitie say a
- Sir Henry Seymour (1503–1578) married Barbara, daughter of Morgan Wolfe[17]
- Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley (c. 1508 – 20 March 1549) married Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII[18][19]
- John Seymour (died young)[20]
- Anthony Seymour (died c. 1528)[12]
- Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell (c. 1518[22][23] – 19 March 1568[24]) through whom Sir John Seymour is an ancestor of actor Danny Dyer[25]
- Margery Seymour (died c. 1528)[12]
- Dorothy Seymour, Lady Smith (c. 1520–1574)[26] married firstly, Sir Clement Smith (c. 1515 – 26 August 1552), MP, of Little Baddow, Essex[13][27] and secondly, Thomas Leventhorpe of Shingle Hall,[28] Hertfordshire[20][29]
Of the ten children born at Wulfhall, six survived – three sons: Edward, Henry and Thomas, and three daughters: Jane, Elizabeth and Dorothy. Edward, Thomas, Jane and Elizabeth were courtiers. Edward and Thomas would both be executed during the reign of Edward VI. Henry Seymour, who lacked his brothers' ambition, lived away from court in relative obscurity.[17]
Seymour also had an illegitimate son:[30][31][32]
- Sir John Seymour (c. 1530 – before August 1599[30]), married in March 1568 Jane or Joan Poyntz, daughter of Sir Nicholas Poyntz and Joan Berkeley.[30][33]
Notable children
Four of the Seymour children achieved prominence at the royal court: Edward, Thomas, Jane and Elizabeth.
Jane Seymour, the eldest surviving daughter, was a maid of honour to Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and later to Anne Boleyn. Henry VIII stayed at Wulfhall with Queen Anne in the summer of 1535 for a few days.[34] In early 1536, Henry declared his love for Jane and began spending increasing amounts of time with her, chaperoned by her brother, Edward. Henry and Jane were formally betrothed the day after Anne Boleyn was arrested and executed on charges of treason, adultery and incest. After Jane became queen on 30 May 1536, her family scaled the social ranks, as was befitting the family of a royal consort.
Her eldest brother,
Seymour's second daughter, Elizabeth, was first married to Sir Anthony Ughtred (c.1478 – 1534), secondly to Gregory Cromwell (c.1520 – 1551), son of Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, and for a third time to John Paulet, Baron St John (c.1510 – 1576), who succeeded his father as Marquess of Winchester in 1572.
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Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, later 1st Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector
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Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley
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Jane Seymour, Queen of England, Hans Holbein the Younger
Death and burial
Seymour died on 21 December 1536.[9] By royal custom, his daughter Queen Jane did not attend the funeral.[3] He was first buried in the church of Easton Priory, but following the collapse of that building was reburied in 1590 by his grandson, Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, in St Mary's Church, Great Bedwyn,[35][36] the parish church of Wulfhall, where his monument survives.[37][38] The monument gives his age at death as sixty:
"This Knight departed this Lyfe at LX years of age, the XXI day of December, Anno 1536 and was firste buryed at Eston Priorie Churche amongst divers of his auncestors, bothe Seymours and Sturmyes..."[2][3]
His eldest son and heir, Edward Seymour, inherited lands producing an income of £275 a year,[9] equivalent to £171,284 in 2021.
Monument, Great Bedwyn
His monument in Great Bedwyn church consists of a
"Here lyeth intombed the worthie Sr John Seymour of Wolfhall, Knight, who by Margerie his wyfe, daughter of Sr
A transcript was made of the inscriptions of the Seymour monuments by the topographer John Aubrey on his visit to the church in 1672. He also recorded the heraldry on the monument at that date, much of which has been lost.[41]
Arms
The arms of Seymour are blazoned Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or.
Notes
- ^ a b Norton 2009, p. 7.
- ^ a b c Aubrey 1862, pp. 375–376:John Seymour's monument gives his age as 60. "This Knight departed this Lyfe at LX years of age, the XXI day of December, Anno 1536 ..."
- ^ a b c Norton 2009, p. 125–126.
- ^ a b c d e f g Pollard 1897, pp. 299–310.
- ^ Roskell & Knightly 1993.
- ^ Seymour 1972, p. 18.
- ^ Norton 2009, pp. 9–10.
- ^ Loades 2013, p. 20.
- ^ a b c d e Davids 1982.
- ^ a b c Norton 2009, p. 11.
- ^ Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry III 2011, p. 111.
- ^ a b c Norton 2009, p. 13.
- ^ a b Aubrey 1862, p. 377.
- ^ Frederic Madden, Bulkeley Bandinel, John Gough Nichols, (Eds.), Collectanea Topographica Et Genealogica, Vol.5, pp.21–24 [1]
- ^ Beer 2009.
- ^ Pole 2008, p. 481.
- ^ a b Hawkyard 1982b.
- ^ Hawkyard 1982c.
- ^ Seymour 1972, p. 65.
- ^ a b Burke III 1836, p. 201.
- ^ Wagner & Schmid 2012, p. 1000.
- ^ a b Fitzgerald 2019.
- ^ a b Strong 1967, pp. 278–281: "The portrait should by rights depict a lady of the Cromwell family aged 21 c.1535–40..."
- ^ College of Arms 2012, p. 63.
- ^ "Danny Dyer". Who Do You Think You Are?. Series 13. Episode 1. 21 November 2019. BBC One.
- ^ Andrews 1886, p. 5.
- ^ Machyn 1848, p. 24, 326.
- ^ Shingle Hall is also listed as Shingey, Shingley and Shinglehall in various sources.
- ^ Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry III 2011, p. 82.
- ^ a b c MacLean 1887, p. 152, Will proved 4 August 1599
- ^ Seymour 1972, p. 26.
- ^ Chitty 1885, p. 129.
- ^ Burke 1965, p. 581.
- ^ Lauder 2002, p. 138.
- ^ Aubrey 1862, p. 374–375.
- ^ Sherlock 2008, p. 34, 36.
- ^ "Great Bedwyn - British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ For description of monument and transcript of inscription see: Collectanea Topographica Et Genealogica, Volume 5 edited by Frederic Madden, Bulkeley Bandinel, John Gough Nichols, pp.21–24 [2]. For images see: [3][4]
- ^ Stuff, Good. "Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ Text from: Frederic Madden, Bulkeley Bandinel, John Gough Nichols, (Eds.), Collectanea Topographica Et Genealogica, Vol.5, pp.21–24, corrected from observation of photograph [5]
- ^ Aubrey, John, An Essay Towards the Description of the North Division of Wiltshire, 1672, (ed. Sir T. Phillipps), 1838 Edition, pp.72–4
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Attribution
- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Pollard, Albert Frederick (1897). "Seymour, Edward". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 51. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 299–310.
External links
- Seymour, Sir John (1473/74-1536), of Wolf Hall, Wilts. Biography at History of Parliament Online
- Seymour Family Pedigree of the Seymour family at tudorplace.com