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Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (née Stanhope; before 1512 – 16 April 1587) was the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500–1552), who held the office of Lord Protector during the first part of the reign of their nephew King Edward VI.
Anne (Stanhope), Duchess of Somerset & Jane Seymour. Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset is buried in St Nicholas' chapel in Westminster Abbey and has a large monument there. This is mainly of alabaster with an effigy of the Duchess in a red ermine-lined robe wearing a coronet.
May 13, 2015 · Name: Anne Stanhope / Anne Seymour. Title/s: Lady Seymour / Viscountess Beauchamp / Countess of Hertford / Duchess of Somerset. Birth / Death: c.1497 – 16 April 1587. Spouse: Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset 1500-1552 / Francis Newdigate ?-1582. Children: Edward, Viscount Beauchamp 1537-1539 / Edward, Earl of Hertford 1539-1621 / Henry 1540 ...
Jan 16, 2015 · Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, has frequently been slandered as a shrewish, arrogant and proud woman who sought precedence over Queen Katherine Parr and who maliciously encouraged her weak husband, the Lord Protector, to put to death his own brother.
Anne died at Hanworth in Middlesex on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1587. Her epitaph claims that she was ninety, but her year of birth has been more recently estimated as 1510, which seems more likely given her gynecological history (she bore her last child in 1550, after which her childbearing was interrupted by her husband’s imprisonment in ...
Apr 15, 2018 · Anne Stanhope Seymour Newdigate, Dowager Duchess of Somerset, former wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and once the most powerful woman in Britain, died in Hanworth, Middlesex, on 16 April 1587, the comparatively lowly widow of her first husband’s steward.
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Feb 19, 2012 · Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, was one of the more prickly personalities of the Tudor period, but among her attractive qualities was her devotion to her husband, which he repaid in full.
