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Hace 5 días · In 1559, Queen Elizabeth leased the manor to Ann, Duchess of Somerset, widow of the late Protector, Seymour, Duke of Somerset, for her life. The duchess afterwards married her first husband's steward, Francis Newdigate, and died in 1587.
Hace 2 días · In January 1549, Seymour was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower on suspicion of conspiring to depose his brother Somerset as Protector, marry Lady Jane Grey to King Edward VI, and take Elizabeth as his own wife. Elizabeth, living at Hatfield House, would admit nothing.
Hace 5 días · Lady Jane was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII through her mother, Lady Frances Brandon, whose own mother was Mary, the younger of King Henry VIII’s two sisters. Provided with excellent tutors, she spoke and wrote Greek and Latin at an early age; she was also proficient in French, Hebrew, and Italian.
Hace 5 días · Thereafter it was leased out by the Crown (see below) until 1536 when it was granted to Edward Seymour, later Duke of Somerset (executed 1552). Thenceforward the manor, like that of Thornhill, descended with the Somerset and Hertford titles until the death of Sarah, Duchess of Somerset in 1692.
Hace 4 días · United Kingdom - Edward VI (1547–53): Henry was succeeded by his nine-year-old son, Edward VI, but real power passed to his brother-in-law, Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford, who became duke of Somerset and lord protector shortly after the new reign began.
Hace 4 días · A P Baggs. M C Siraut, 'Index: K-Z', A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 7, Bruton, Horethorne and Norton Ferris Hundreds, (London, 1999), pp. 264-276.
Hace 4 días · A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 9, Glastonbury and Street. By M C Siraut, A T Thacker and Elizabeth Williamson/ Edited by R W Dunning. Covers the Glastonbury Twelve Hides hundred in the centre of the county, owned until the dissolution by the Abbey of Glastonbury.
