Lady Margaret Seymour

Lady Margaret Seymour
Lady Margaret Seymour
Born	1540
Died	?
Father	Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
Mother	Anne Stanhope

Lady Margaret Seymour (1540 – ?) was an influential writer during the sixteenth century in England, along with her sisters, Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick and Lady Jane Seymour, including of the Hecatodistichon .^[1] She was the daughter of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, who from 1547 was the Lord Protector of England after the death of Henry VIII and during the minority of Margaret's first cousin, Edward VI. She was thus the niece of Henry VIII's third wife, Queen Jane Seymour.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Lady Margaret Seymour

17. Elizabeth Coker

18. Sir George Darrell

9. Elizabeth Darell

19. Margaret Stourton

21. Mary Clifford

11. Anne Say

1. Lady Margaret Seymour

24. John Stanhope

12. Thomas Stanhope

25. Elizabeth Talbot

6. Sir Edward Stanhope

26. Sir John Jerningham

13. Margaret Jerningham

27. Isabel Clifton

28. William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin

29. Thomasina Hankeford, 9th Baroness FitzWarin

30. John Dinham, 6th Baron Dinham

15. Elizabeth Dinham

31. Joan Arches

↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Seymour, Lady Jane (1541–1561), writer by Jane Stevenson

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