Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
Nobleman · United Kingdom · On the map · Lived 1506 to 1552 · aged 46
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp was an English nobleman and politician who served as Lord Protector of England from 1547 to 1549 during the minority of his nephew King Edward VI.
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![Quartered arms of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, KG: Quarterly of six. 1. Or, on a pile, gules, between six fleurs de lys, azure three lions of England. (Augmentation granted by Henry VIII on his marriage to Jane Seymour). 2. Seymour: gules, two wings conjoined in lure, or. 3. Beauchamp of Hache: Vair. 4. Esturmy: Argent, three demi-lions rampant, gules. 5. MacWilliams: Per bend, argent and gules, three roses, bend-wise, counterchanged. 6. Coker: Argent, on a bend, gules, three leopards' heads, or.[5][6]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Quartered_arms_of_Edward_Seymour%2C_1st_Duke_of_Somerset%2C_KG.png/500px-Quartered_arms_of_Edward_Seymour%2C_1st_Duke_of_Somerset%2C_KG.png)
Quartered arms of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, KG: Quarterly of six. 1. Or, on a pile, gules, between six fleurs de lys, azure three lions of England. (Augmentation granted by Henry VIII on his marriage to Jane Seymour). 2. Seymour: gules, two wings conjoined in lure, or. 3. Beauchamp of Hache: Vair. 4. Esturmy: Argent, three demi-lions rampant, gules. 5. MacWilliams: Per bend, argent and gules, three roses, bend-wise, counterchanged. 6. Coker: Argent, on a bend, gules, three leopards' heads, or.[5][6]
Thomas Seymour, Lord Admiral and brother of Edward Seymour
One of Somerset's last desperate acts as Lord Protector was to request 1,000 troops from Sir Rowland Hill as Lord Mayor of London. Hill did not send assistance.
Execution of the Duke of Somerset, from a 19th-century book
Monument to Lord Edward Seymour (d.1593), and to his son and daughter-in-law, St Mary's Church, Berry Pomeroy
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He was the eldest surviving brother of Queen Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII and mother of King Edward VI.