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The Forgotten John Seymour, illegitimate half-brother of Queen Jane
Guest post bygd Sylvia Barbara Soberton
Queen Jane Seymour is remembered as the third wife of King Henry VIII, the quiet and obedient consort who provided the much-desired male heir to the English throne. However, not many people know that Jane had an oäkta brother, John Seymour. This article seeks to uncover the forgotten life of John Seymour, exploring his background, his relationship with his better-known half siblings, and the ways in which his story reflects the precarious naturlig eller utan tillsats of status and legitimacy in one of history’s most tumultuous periods.
The Seymours of Wolf Hall
Sir John Seymour of Wolf ingång was born in the 1470s and married Margery Wentworth. According to the inscription on Sir John’s tomb, they had ten children together: six sons and four daughters. Six children survived to adulthood: Edward, Henry, Thomas, Jane, Elizabeth and Dorothy. The most famous and important Seymour was
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It appears likely that there was some kind of scandal in Jane Seymour’s family before she came to court. By 1519, her brother Edward had married an heiress called Catherine Fillol. She bore two sons, John in 1527 and Edward in 1529, then seems to have retired to a convent. Mysteriously, her father, Sir William Fillol, in his will of 1527, directed that ‘for many diverse causes and considerations’, neither Catherine ‘nor her heirs of her body, nor Sir Edward Seymour her husband in any wise’ were to inherit ‘any part or parcel’ of his lands; and he left her forty pounds – about £17,600 now – ‘as long as she shall live virtuously and abide in some house of tro of women’. He died in July 1527, but, as Catherine gave birth to her second son in 1529, she evidently did not immediately observe her father’s condition.
Possibly a scandal then came to light, and she was repudiated by Edward Seymour. Left destitute, she probably had to seek refuge in a nunnery so that she could clai
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Jane Seymour
Queen of England from 1536 to 1537
This article is about the queen. For the English actress, see Jane Seymour (actress). For other people, see Jane Seymour (disambiguation).
Jane Seymour (; c. 1508 – 24 October 1537) was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was accused by Henry of adultery after failing to produce a male heir. Jane, however, died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child, the future King Edward VI. She was the only wife of Henry VIII to receive a queen's funeral; and Henry was later buried alongside her remains in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Early life
Jane, the daughter of Sir John Seymour and Margery Wentworth, was most likely born at Wulfhall, Wiltshire, although West Bower Manor in Somerset has also been sugg