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When William Seymour -2nd Duke of Somerset was born on 1 September 1587, in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England, his father, Edward Seymour Viscount Beauchamp, was 25 and his mother, Honora Rogers, was 25. He married Lady Arabella Stuart or Stewart in 1610, in Essex, England, United Kingdom.
KB 3 Nov. 1616; mq. of Hertford 3 June 1641; KG 27 May 1660;8 styled Lord Beauchamp Aug. 1618; summ. to Lords in fa.’s barony 29 Jan. 1621; suc. grandfa. 6 Apr. 1621 as 2nd earl of Hertford; restored 13 Sept. 1660 as Bar. Seymour and 2nd duke of Somerset. d. 24 Oct. 1660.9. Offices Held
Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset (December 1694 or early 1695 – December 1757) was an English peer and landowner. Family [ edit ] The son of Sir Edward Seymour, 5th Baronet , of Berry Pomeroy , a descendant of Lord Protector Somerset by his first marriage, to Catherine Fillol , Edward Seymour was baptised at Easton Royal , Wiltshire , on 17 January 1694.
(1) Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp of Hache (1561-1612), who married Honora Rogers and fathered six children, including William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, who later married another potential heiress to the throne, Arbella Stuart, in similar circumstances.
15th Duke of Somerset: Edward Hamilton Seymour 1860–1931 16th Duke of Somerset: Hugh de Grey Seymour 1843–1912 6th Marquess of Hertford, Earl of Hertford, Earl of Yarmouth, and Viscount Beauchamp, 7th Baron Conway: Thomas William Coke 1848–1941 3rd Earl of Leicester, 3rd Viscount Coke: Henry Adelbert Wellington FitzRoy Somerset 1847–1924
Seymour compounded for his estates on the Oxford Articles, but his original fine of £12,603 was reduced to £8,375 in January 1648 after he demonstrated that much of his estate was held for life only.54 At the Restoration he received the Garter and was restored as duke of Somerset, but he died on 24 Oct. 1660 and was buried in the family vault at Great Bedwyn on 1 Nov. following.55 His will ...
His eldest son by his second wife was re-created Earl of Hertford by Elizabeth I, and his great-grandson William was restored as 2nd Duke of Somerset in 1660. His children by his first wife had been disinherited owing to the jealousy of his second; but their descendants came into the titles and property when the younger line died out in 1750.
