Dorothy Seymour

Sir John Seymour’s youngest daughter, whose sister was to become Henry VIII’s third Queen and whose eldest brother Duke of Somerset and Protector.

After the death of her first husband, Sir Clement Smith, "Dorothy Smith was granted a pension of 100 marks a year towards her expenses in the maintenance of her niece, the Protector’s daughter Lady Elizabeth Seymour. She did not long remain a widow, marrying Thomas Laventhorpe before November 1553."

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/sm...

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In her book _ Lives of the Queens of England_, Agnes Strickland remarks, cattily, that by marrying Jane Seymour, "the sovereign of England gained by this alliance one brother in-law who bore the name of Smith, and another whose grandfather was a blacksmith at Putney." (The blacksmith's grandson was Gregory Cromwell.)