# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/desmond-seward
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:40:54.379Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/desmond-seward"
name: "Desmond Seward"
slug: "desmond-seward"
description: "Desmond Eric Christopher Seward was an Anglo-Irish popular historian and the author of many books, including biographies of Henry IV of France, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Marie Antoinette, Empress Eugénie and Napoleon's family. He specialised in Britain and France in the late Middle Ages."
tagline: "British historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-05-22"
deathDate: "2022-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.679590666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.desmondseward.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Seward"
    title: "Desmond Seward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "ديزموند سيوارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "ديزموند سيوارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%B7%E6%96%AF%E8%92%99%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E8%8B%8F%E5%8E%84%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "德斯蒙德·苏厄德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Seward"
    title: "Desmond Seward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Seward"
    title: "Desmond Seward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5264795"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump