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Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (née Stanhope; before 1512 – 16 April 1587) was the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500–1552), 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.
Monument to Elizabeth Bourchier's daughter, Anne Stanhope, in Westminster Abbey. By Sir Edward Stanhope Elizabeth Bourchier had a daughter, Anne Stanhope, who married, as his second wife, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. [16] Elizabeth Bourchier's son-in-law, Somerset, was beheaded on Tower Hill on 22 January 1552. [17]
The Stanhope family is an English aristocratic family now headed by the Earl of Harrington. ... Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset; Anne Stanhope, Countess of ...
Anne Seymour may refer to: Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1510–1587), née Stanhope, wife of the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and aunt of Edward VI of England Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick (1538–1588), married name Anne Dudley, Countess of Warwick, poet and daughter of the above
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Anne Stanhope's husband was considered a wastrel, who spent much of his time asleep in Bretby Hall and let his lands at Bretby to go to waste. He died in June 1866, aged 61, and was succeeded by their son, George. Like her sister Selina, Countess of Bradford, Anne was an intimate friend of Benjamin Disraeli. After they had both been widowed ...
16 April – Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset (born 1497) September – George Whetstone, writer (duel) (born 1544) Dudley Fenner, puritan divine (born c. 1558) 1588 18 June – Robert Crowley, London stationer (born 1517) 10 July – Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York (born 1519)
The title Duchess of Somerset, held by the wives of the Dukes of Somerset, may refer to: Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (fl. 1512–1587), second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1599–1674), second wife of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset