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John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset and 3rd Marquess of Hertford (before 1646 – 29 April 1675) was an English peer and MP. Life. He was the only surviving son of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, and Lady Frances Devereux.
- Frances Devereux
- William Seymour
John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset (bef. 1646–1675), fourth and youngest son of the 2nd Duke, died without issue Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset (1658–1678), great-grandson of Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp through the Lords Seymour of Trowbridge ; himself eldest son of the 1st Duke's fourth son; Edward Seymour, 1st ...
- Sebastian Seymour, Baron Seymour
- John Beaufort, 3rd Earl of Somerset
- Baron Seymour
- John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset
- Origins
- Sir John Seymour
- Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet
- Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford
- Henry Seymour
- Lord Hugh Seymour
- Sir Michael Seymour
- Descent of The Estate
- References
- Further Reading
The family was settled in Monmouthshire in the 13th century. The original form of the name, which was resumed by the dukes of Somerset from early in the 19th century to 1923, seems to have been St. Maur, of which William Camden says that Seymour was a later corruption. It appears that about the year 1240 Gilbert Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, assisted ...
During the next three or four generations the wealth and importance of the Seymours in the western counties increased, until in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII Sir John Seymour of Wolf Hall became a personage of note in public affairs. He took an active part in suppressing the Cornish Rebellion of 1497; and afterwards attended Henry at the F...
Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet (1633–1708), speaker of the House of Commons, was elected member of parliament for Gloucester in 1661, and his influence at Court together with his natural abilities procured for him a position of weight in the House of Commons. He was appointed to the lucrative post of treasurer of the navy; and in 1667 he moved the...
The eldest son of the Protector's second marriage, Edward Seymour (1537–1621), was relieved by act of parliament in the reign of Queen Mary from the attainder passed on his father in 1551, and was created Baron Beauchamp and earl of Hertford in 1559. In 1560 he secretly married Lady Catherine Grey, second daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk...
Henry Seymour (1729–1805), a son of the 8th duke of Somerset's brother Francis, was elected to the House of Commons in 1763; in 1778 he went to France, and fixing his residence at Prunay, near Versailles, he became the lover of Madame du Barry, many of whose letters to him are preserved in Paris. He was twice married, and in addition to children by...
Lord Hugh Seymour (1759–1801), a younger son of Francis Seymour-Conway, marquess of Hertford, was a distinguished naval officer who saw much active service especially under Lord Howe, in whose famous action on 1 June 1794 he took a conspicuous part. His son Sir George Francis Seymour (1787–1870), admiral of the fleet, began his naval career by serv...
A younger branch of the great house of Seymour is said to have settled in Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth, from which Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet (1768–1834) claimed descent. Sir Michael, like so many of his name, was an officer in the navy, in which he rendered much distinguished service in the last decade of the 18th century. He lost an ar...
Esturmy
Wilhelmina, Duchess of Cleveland (1819–1901), in her 1889 work The Battle Abbey Roll with some Account of the Norman Lineageswrote about the Esturmy family, which held the estates of Tottenham, Wulfhall and the Savernake Forest. Sir William Esturmy (c. 1356 – 1427)) was a Speaker of the House of Commons, a Knight of the Shire and an hereditary Warden of the royal forest of Savernake Forest. He was the son of Geoffrey Sturmy (died 1381) and nephew and heir of Sir Henry Sturmy of Wolfhall. He i...
Seymour
The Seymour family (anciently de St. Maur) is earliest recorded seated at Penhow Castle in Glamorganin the 12th century. The parish church of Penhow is dedicated to St Maur. Roger Seymour (c. 1367/70 – 1420), who married Maud Esturmy (alias Esturmi, etc.), a daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Esturmy (died 1427), of Wolfhall in Wiltshire, Speaker of the House of Commons and hereditary Warden of Savernake Forestin Wiltshire. Following his wife's inheritance, he moved his principal seat fro...
Bruce
Elizabeth Seymour's son and heir was Charles Bruce, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury (died 1747), of Houghton House in the parish of Maulden, in Bedfordshire, who in 1721 rebuilt Totnam Lodge to the design of his brother-in-law the pioneering Palladian architect Lord Burlington. Henry Flitcroft was the executant architect. The 3rd Earl added wings to Burlington's block in the 1730s, and also built in 1743 a Banqueting House in the park to the design of Burlington (demolished in 1824). In 1746, one year...
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Seymour (family)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press....
Seymour, William. 1972. Ordeal by Ambition: An English Family in the Shadow of the Tudors. New York: St. Martin’s. Strickland, Agnes, and Antonia Fraser. 2011. Agnes Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.
- Wido de St Maur
- 11th century
John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Hertford(d. 1675) on his death the Marquessate of Hertford became extinct. Dukes of Somerset in the Peerage of England (1547, forfeit 1552 to 1660, from 1675-1750) Earls of Hertford in the Peerage of England (1559-1750, from 1675-1750)
John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset and 3rd Marquess of Hertford (before 1646 – 29 April 1675) was an English peer and MP. Quick Facts His Grace The Duke of Somerset, Duke of Somerset ... Close. Life. Quick Facts Restoration of Marquis of Hertford Act 1660, Long title ... Close.
John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset (before 1646 – 29 April 1675) was an English peer and MP. He was the only surviving son of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Lady Frances Devereux and entered Grays Inn in 1666. He succeeded his nephew as the 4th Duke of Somerset in 1671.
28 de nov. de 2019 · Lord John Seymour (bur. 19 Dec 1552) 2. Lord Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy, co. Devon, knighted 1547, restored in blood by Act of Parliament 1553, Sheriff of Devon 1583 (d. 6 May 1593), mar. Margaret Walsh, dau. and hrss. of John Walsh, of Cathanger, co. Somerset, Justice of the Common Pleas 1563-72, and had issue: 1a.
