Lady Margaret Seymour

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

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

Family of Lady Margaret Seymour
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. John Seymour
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. John Seymour
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Elizabeth Coker
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Sir John Seymour
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Sir George Darrell
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Elizabeth Darell
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Margaret Stourton
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Sir Philip Wentworth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Sir Henry Wentworth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Mary Clifford
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Margery Wentworth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Sir John Say
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Anne Say
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Elizabeth Cheney
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Anne Stanhope
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Thomasina Hankeford, 9th Baroness FitzWarin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Elizabeth Bourchier
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. John Dinham, 6th Baron Dinham
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Elizabeth Dinham
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Joan Arches
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

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