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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.
English: Anne Seymour, née Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset and wife of Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset Deutsch: Anne Seymour, geborene Stanhope, Herzogin von Somerset und Ehefrau von Sir Edward, 1.
Catherine's family play a key role including her sister Anne Parr Herbert, her stepdaughter Elizabeth, niece Jane Grey, doomed friend Anne Askew, rivals Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, Stephen Gardiner, Henry Howard, Anne Stanhope, Mary Howard Fitzroy the Dowager Duchess of Richmond and former romantic interest Thomas Seymour. [2]
Stanhope had earlier been married to Adelina Clifton, the daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton, of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, [11] by whom he had two sons, Richard Stanhope (d. 21 January 1529), [12] who married Anne Strelley (d. 12 October 1554), [13] and Sir Michael Stanhope, who married Anne Rawson. Sir Edward Stanhope fought in 1487 at the Battle ...
Seymour was the eldest son of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c.1500 – 1552) by his second wife Anne Stanhope (c. 1511 – 1587). He was a nephew of Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, and a first cousin of Edward VI.
Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp of Hache (21 September 1561 – July 1612) was an English nobleman who had a theoretically strong claim to the throne of England through his mother, Lady Katherine Grey, but his legitimacy was questioned.
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Anne Stanhope, half sister of Sir Michael Stanhope and wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. He was born before 1508, [1] the second son of Sir Edward Stanhope (d. 6 June 1511) [2] of Rampton in Nottinghamshire, by his first wife Adelina Clifton, a daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton [3] in Nottinghamshire.