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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]
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
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 ...
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.
Elizabeth Bourchier (before 1473 – 8 August 1557) [12] who married, as his second wife, Sir Edward Stanhope (1462 – 6 June 1511), by whom she was the mother of Anne Stanhope (c. 1497 – 1587), [13] the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500 – 1552), brother of Queen Jane Seymour, uncle of King Edward VI and Lord ...
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
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp KG, PC (1500 [1] – 22 January 1552), also known as Edward Semel, [2] 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.