Sir Henry Seymour, Knight

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• Henry SEYMOUR (Sir Knight)
• Born: 1514, Wolf Hall, Wiltshire, England
• Acceded: Knight Bannaret, of Marwell, Hampshire.
• Died: 1578, Twyford, Hampshire, England
• Notes: Sheriff of Hampshire. Knight of the Bath at the coronation of his nephew Edward VI. Some sources says that his second wife was the mother his sons.
• Father: John SEYMOUR (Sir)
• Mother: Margery WENTWORTH
• Married 1: Barbara WOLFE
• Children:
  • 1. John SEYMOUR (Sir)
  • 2. Jane SEYMOUR
• Married 2: Barbara MORGAN
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/SEYMOUR.htm#Henry SEYMOUR (Sir Knight)1
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• Sir Henry Seymour (by 1503 - 5 April 1578) was an English politician. He was the brother of Queen Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII of England. He was thus the uncle of King Edward VI of England.
• Seymour was the son of Sir John Seymour and his wife, Margery Wentworth. The family's main residence was Wulfhall, Wiltshire. As well as Queen Jane, Henry Seymour's siblings included Elizabeth Seymour, the daughter-in-law of Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell; Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, who was Lord Protector of England during the minority of their nephew, until he was executed; and Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, the fourth husband of Queen Catherine Parr, and stepfather to, and favourite of, the future Elizabeth I of England. His family were relatively obscure gentry until the marriage of Henry's sister to the King.
• By 1559, Henry Seymour had married Barbara Wolfe; they had three sons and seven daughters.
• His sister Jane left him 'several valuable chains' in her will in 1537. He was carver at the households of Queens Anne of Cleves (1540) and Catherine Parr (1545). In 1544 he was made captain of the ship Lyon of Hamburgh under his brother Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, but was held to be culpable when it foundered in the Dart estuary.
• He became a Knight of the Bath in February 1547, soon after his nephew's accession to the throne. He does not seem to have shared the ambitions or abilities of his brothers Thomas and Edward, Duke of Somerset and did not progress at court. He is not mentioned in the diaries of Edward VI. Both his brothers were executed after conspiring against their rivals; Henry Seymour appears unscathed. His brother, Edward, now Lord Protector of England, wrote to him and asked him to bring troops to support him. It seems Henry Seymour did not respond, and did well under the administration of his brother's replacement, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland.
• He was MP for Hampshire in 1547, in the reign of his nephew. He was High Sheriff of Hampshire for 1568–69.
• Seymour died at home in Winchester 5 April 1578. He had made his will a week earlier. He was succeeded by his son and heir, John.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Seymour_(16th_century_MP)
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• SEYMOUR, Sir Henry (by 1503-78), of Marwell, Hants.
  • Family and Education
• b. by 1503, 3rd s. of Sir John Seymour of Wolf Hall, Wilts. by Margery, da. of Sir Henry Wentworth of Nettlestead, Suff.; bro. of Sir Thomas II. m. by 1559, Barbara, da. of Morgan Wolfe, 3s. inc. John 7da. KB 20 Feb. 1547.1
  • Offices Held
• Keeper, Taunton castle, Som. by 1526-d., Bridgwater castle, Som. 1544, Marwell park, Hants by 1547-51; sewer extraordinary, the chamber by 1533; bailiff, manor of Hampstead Marshall, Berks. 1536-d., Romsey, Hants by 1546-d., steward, manors of Bierton with Broughton, Whaddon and Wendover, Bucks. 1536-d., Wyrardisbury, Bucks. and Kings Langley, Herts. 1536-39; gen.-receiver, manors of Bierton with Broughton, Claydon, Swanbourne, Wendover and Whaddon, Bucks., Berkhampstead, Herts. and Finmer, Oxon. 1536-10; capt. Lyon of Hamburgh 1544; carver, household of Queen Anne of Cleves 1540, of Queen Catherine Parr by 1545; commr. relief, Hants 1550, goods of churches and fraternities 1553; j.p. 1554-d.; sheriff, Hants 1568-9.2
  • Biography
• Unlike his two brothers, Edward, Duke of Somerset, and Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Henry Seymour lacked the ability, the ambition and the will to govern: he was a nonentity who passes unnoticed in his nephew Edward VI’s diary. He held no office of importance and reaped little reward. His brothers died on the block; he outlived them by nearly 30 years to die in his bed.
• Seymour was probably the ‘Harry Seymor’, living in St. John’s parish, Winchester, who was assessed on 10 marks in wages for the subsidy in 1524: the appearance of his name among those of men known to have been servants or members of the bishop’s household suggests that he was in the service of Richard Fox. He had doubtless owed his introduction there and at court to his father and to the example of his brother Edward, but he is not known to have progressed until the King married his sister, whereupon he was appointed to several offices mainly connected with the administration of her estates. Some of these he lost at her death, although she bequeathed him several valuable chains. In 1544 he served under his brother Thomas’s command in the navy. While on patrol in the Channel in the autumn of that year his ship was driven by a storm into the Dart estuary and wrecked: he was held culpable and was given no further military or naval command. Shortly afterwards he ceased to be a member of the household of Queen Catherine Parr, his name not being found in the relevant lists after 1545. By the end of the reign he appears to have been living in Hampshire, discharging minor duties for his younger brother and the bishop of Winchester.3
• The accession of his nephew and the ascendancy of the Protector momentarily brightened Seymour’s prospects: he took part in the coronation, was made a Knight of the Bath and in the autumn of 1547 was elected a knight of the shire for Hampshire, but his only appointments were in the government of that county. His brother’s neglect may help to explain his failure even to answer the Protector’s letter of 5 Oct. 1549 calling on him to muster forces against the Council in London. For this passive complicity in Somerset’s overthrow he was rewarded by John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, with grants of land in Buckinghamshire and Hampshire, and he was to receive from Dudley, who was bent on retaining his support, the attention never forthcoming from his brother. It produced as little result as the earlier treatment had done.4
• Seymour pursued his inconspicuous course under Mary and Elizabeth: the first made him a justice of the peace and the second gave him a term as sheriff. In 1564 he was described as a ‘favourer’ of religion. A sick man when he made his will on 28 Mar. 1578, he was able to make more than adequate provision for his wife and children, his daughters receiving £1,000 each. He appointed as his executors his nephews the Earl of Hertford and Henry Ughtred. He died on 5 Apr. at his house in Winchester, leaving a son and heir John who was just over 18 years old.5
• Ref Volumes: 1509-1558
• Author: A. D.K. Hawkyard
  • Notes
• 1. Date of birth estimated from first reference. H. St. Maur. Annals of the Seymours, ped. opp. p. 1.
• 2. LP Hen. VIII, ii, vi, xii, xiv, xvi, xix, xx; CPR, 1550-3, pp. 151, 395; 1553, pp. 358, 415; 1553-4, pp. 19, 252; The Gen. n.s. xxx. 24; Stowe 571, f. 576; SC6/190/21; Eccles. 2/155674, 155888A-9; E179/69/48.
• 3. LP Hen. VIII, xii, xv, xix; CSP Hen. VIII, i. 780; E179/174/287; A. A. Locke, Seymour Fam., 29.
• 4. CSP Dom. 1547-80, pp. 23, 345; APC, iii. 138, 310, iv. 153, 221, 242, 338; Black Bk. Winchester ed. Bird, 180; W. K. Jordan, Edw. VI, i. 35-36, 508.
• 5. Cam. Misc. ix(3), 55; PCC 20 Langley; C142/183/64.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/se...
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• Sir Henry Seymour
• M, #24148
• Last Edited=6 May 2008
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• Sir Henry Seymour was the son of Sir John Seymour and Margaret Wentworth.
• He lived at Marwell, Hampshire, England.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p2415.htm#i24148
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Sir Henry Seymour (c. 1503 – 5 April 1578)[1] was an English landowner and MP, the brother of Jane Seymour, queen consort of Henry VIII, and consequently uncle to Edward VI.[1] He was created a Knight of the Bath after his nephew's coronation.

Family[edit]

Sir Henry Seymour was born around 1503, probably at Wulfhall, Wiltshire.[3] He was the third son of Sir John Seymour (c.1474[4][5] – 21 December 1536.[6]%29 and Margery Wentworth (c. 1478[7] – 18 October 1550[8]). His family rose to prominence following his sister Jane's marriage to the King in 1536.[1] As well as Queen Jane, Henry Seymour's siblings included Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell, the daughter-in-law of Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell; Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, who was Lord Protector of England during the minority of their nephew; and Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, the fourth husband of Catherine Parr, and stepfather to the future Elizabeth I.[7]

Career[

Seymour may have begun his career in the service of Richard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester.[1] By 1526 he had followed his father and siblings into royal service, although he does not seem to have shared the ambitions or abilities of his brothers, Edward and Thomas, and did not progress at court.[1] He served under four Tudor monarchs, although for the most part, he lived in relative obscurity, seldom appearing at court, and did not seek honours and preferments.[9]

He held a number of offices, including:[1] Keeper, Taunton Castle, Somerset by 1526–1578 Keeper, Bridgwater Castle, Somerset 1544 Keeper, Marwell park, Hampshire by 1547–51 Sewer extraordinary, the chamber by 1533 Bailiff, manor of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire 1536–1578 Bailiff, Romsey, Hampshire by 1546-1578 Steward, manors of Bierton with Broughton, Whaddon and Wendover, Buckinghamshire 1536, Wyrardisbury, Buckinghamshire and Kings Langley, Hertfordshire 1536–39 General–receiver, manors of Bierton with Broughton, Claydon, Swanbourne, Wendover and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire and Finmere, Oxfordshire 1536-10 Captain Lyon of Hamburgh 1544 Carver, household of Anne of Cleves 1540 Carver, household of Catherine Parr by 1544 Commissioner, relief, Hampshire 1550 Commissioner, goods of churches and fraternities 1553 Justice of the Peace 1554–1578 Sheriff, Hampshire 1568–9

Following his sister's marriage, he was appointed to several offices chiefly related to the administration of her estates, some of which he lost at her death. Jane left him "several valuable chains" in her will in 1537.[1] He was carver in the households of Anne of Cleves (1540) and Catherine Parr (1545). In 1544 he was made captain of the ship Lyon of Hamburgh under the command of his brother Thomas, Lord High Admiral, but was held to be culpable when it foundered in the Dart estuary during a storm. He was offered no further military or naval command following this incident, and some time in 1545, lost his position in the household of Catherine Parr.[1]

He was made a Knight of the Bath in February 1547, soon after his nephew's accession to the throne.[2][10] In the autumn of 1547, he was elected MP for Hampshire.[1] He is not mentioned in the diaries of Edward VI, although he received a number of royal grants of land during the reign of his nephew.[11] While both his brothers were executed after conspiring against their rivals in their struggles for power, Henry Seymour appears unscathed. In 1549, his brother, Edward, Lord Protector of England, wrote to him and asked him to bring troops to support him. It seems Henry Seymour did not respond, and did well under the administration of his brother's replacement, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland.[1] He was the sole executor of his mother's Will following her death on 18 October 1550,[12] by which she bequeathed "various legacies of plate, jewels etc. to her relations."[13] In 1551, he was granted the manors of Marvell and Twyford, which had constituted a portion of the estates of the bishopric of Winchester, and the following year, grants for life of the manors of Somerford and Hurn, in the parish of Christchurch, with other lands to the value of £202 6s. 9d.[11]

During the reign of Elizabeth I, he was High Sheriff of Hampshire for 1568–69.[1]

Marriage

Henry Seymour married Barbara (born c. 1515), the daughter of Morgan Wolfe, and by her had three sons and seven daughters:[1][14] Sir John Seymour married Susan, youngest daughter of lord Chidiock Powlett, third son of William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Capel, Lord Mayor of London. They had three sons:[15] Edward Seymour Henry Seymour Thomas Seymour Jane Seymour (died February 1634) married Sir John Rodney (c. 1551–died 6 August 1612) of Stoke Rodney, Somersetshire. They had sixteen children, of whom four sons and three daughters survived:[16] Elizabeth Rodney Sir Edward Rodney married Frances Southwell, the daughter of Sir Robert Southwell of Woodrising, Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth Howard, and by her had thirteen children. George Rodney (1608–1630) married Anna Lake Anthony Rodney (died 1705) married Constantia Clarke Henry Rodney (died 1737) married Mary Newton George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718 – 24 May 1792) Henry Rodney William Rodney Jane Rodney Penelope Rodney

Death

Seymour died at home in Winchester 5 April 1578. He had made his will a week earlier. He was succeeded by his son and heir, John.[1]

Notes[edit]

1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m Hawkyard 1982. 2.^ Jump up to: a b Saint Maur 1902, p. 21, He "was made a Knight of the Bath, 27 February 1547 ..." 3.Jump up ^ Norton 2009, p. 11. 4.Jump up ^ Norton 2009, p. 7. 5.Jump up ^ Aubrey 1862, p. 375–376:John Seymour's monument gives his age as 60 which points to a birth year of 1476. "This Knight departed this Lyfe at LX years

Son of Sir John Seymour of Wulfhall and Lady Margery Wentworth, Lady Seymour Husband of Barbara Morgan Father of Sir John Seymour and Jane Rodney Brother of John Seymour; Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset; Anthony Seymour; Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Sudeley and 5 others

Siblings Margaret 1485 Seymore, Lady Walgrave and names of 13 more siblings Lady Margaret Seymour and names of 13 more siblings Sir George Waldegrave Of Smallbridge and names of 16 more siblings Jeanne Tudor D'angleterre (née Seymour) and names of 3 more siblings

Children John Seymour and name of one more daughter

Wife Name of wife

Siblings Clement Smith and names of 8 more siblings Ex-wife Name of ex-wife

Children Sir John Seymour and name of one more daughter

Siblings John Seymour and names of 8 more siblings

Edward Seymour and names of 8 more siblings

Cathrine Saintjohn and names of 24 more siblings