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Anne Seymour (née Stanhope), Duchess of Somerset. by Thomas Nugent, published by Edward Harding, after Silvester (Sylvester) Harding stipple engraving, published 1 March 1792
Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1497-16 April 1587) was the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. Anne Stanhope was born to a noble family, and she was said to be intolerably snobby and prideful, yet also highly intelligent and determined. She married Edward Seymour before 1535, and she was unfaithful towards him with Francis Bryan, who had an illicit affair with him during ...
Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, was one of the more prickly personalities of the Tudor period, but among her attractive qualities was her devotion to her husband, which he repaid in full. One of the most difficult periods in the couple’s lives was in 1549, when Somerset, who as uncle to King Edward VI had the virtual rule of England as his nephew’s Protector, fell dramatically from power.
The real Anne Seymour, duchess of Somerset, was a very different woman. Above: The Duchess of Somerset in The Tudors. Anne Stanhope was born in around 1510 to Sir Edward Stanhope and his second wife Elizabeth Bourchier. By her father's first marriage, Anne had two half brothers: Richard and Michael. Anne's uncle, John Bourchier, was earl of Bath.
Anne Seymour: Lady in Waiting to Henry VIII's Six Wives. Catherine Parr called her 'that hell', while Queen Mary I called her 'my good Nann'. Lady-in-waiting to each of Henry VIII's six queens, Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, witnessed the reigns of Henry VIII and each of his three children. When her sister-in-law Jane became Henry's third ...
Anne Somerset (historian) (born 1955), English historian and writer. Anne Somerset, Countess of Northumberland (1538–1596), English noblewoman and one of the instigators of the Northern Rebellion against Elizabeth I. Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset ( c. 1497 – 1587), wife of Lord Protector Somerset. Category: Human name disambiguation pages.
Anne herself had been arrested soon after her husband was seized and remained as a prisoner in the Tower until August 1553, when she was released by Mary I, with whom she had long been friendly. Over the next years, she managed to rebuild her fortunes; Retha Warnicke gives the value of her goods and moveables at her death as £9,829 19s 8d.
