Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset
Duchess of Somerset · Lived 1510 to 1587 · aged 77
Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset was the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, who held the office of Lord Protector during the first part of the reign of their nephew King Edward VI. The Duchess was briefly the most powerful woman in England.
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Arms of Stanhope: Quarterly ermine and gules
Tomb of Anne Seymour in Westminster Abbey. The ermine lining of her peerage robe is exposed as a play on her paternal arms of Stanhope: Quarterly ermine and gules, shown on escutcheons behind impaled by Seymour and impaling Bourchier. On the base are shown 4 Bourchier knotsAbout this person
During her husband's regency she unsuccessfully claimed precedence over the queen dowager, Catherine Parr.