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After a dinner with Edward VI on 16th October 1551, Seymour was arrested and taken to the Tower of London. On 1st December 1551, Seymour was tried by his peers. He pleaded “not guilty”. He defended himself skilfully and was acquitted of treason but found guilty of bringing men together to riot against the king.
Battle of Pinkie. Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp KG, PC (1500 [1] – 22 January 1552), also known as Edward Semel, [2] was an English nobleman and politician who served as Lord Protector of England from 1547 to 1549 during the minority of his nephew King Edward VI.
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.
William Seymour, Marquess of Hertford, later 2nd Duke of Somerset (1588–1660), portrait attributed to Gilbert Jackson (c. 1595/1600–post-1648), private collection Marriage [ edit ] On 3 March 1616, Frances married at Drayton Bassett William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1588–1660), the son of Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp of Hache , and the grandson of Lady Catherine Grey .
William Seymour heiratete in zweiter Ehe 1616 Frances († 1679), Tochter des Robert Devereux, 2. Earl of Essex, mit der er folgende Kinder hatte: Henry Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (1626–1654), ⚭ Mary, Tochter des Arthur Capell, 1. Baron Capell of Hadham; Eltern des William Seymour, 3. Duke of Somerset (1654–1671)
He therefore died at the end of October as 2 nd duke of Somerset, and William Seymour succeeded as 3 rd duke. At the death of the old duke, the new duke’s mother appealed to the king in an attempt to know why his grandmother retained custody of her son, or ‘permit her to recover his guardianship by law’.
Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (1561-1612), who married Honora Rogers and had six children, including William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset. Among his descendants are Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (née Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), and the present Dukes of Northumberland. The Hon. Thomas Seymour (1562/3, Tower of London - 8 August 1600).
