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Katherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford (née Lady Katherine Grey; 25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568) [1] [2] was a younger sister of Lady Jane Grey.. A granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, she emerged as a prospective successor to her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, before incurring Queen Elizabeth's wrath by secretly marrying Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford.
Despite the disastrous consequences of her sister Katherine's secret marriage, Mary also married without the Queen's permission. [9] On 16 July 1565, [10] while the Queen was absent attending the marriage of her kinsman, Sir Henry Knollys [11] (d. 21 December 1582), and Margaret Cave, the daughter of Sir Ambrose Cave, [12] Mary secretly married the Queen's sergeant porter, Thomas Keyes, son of ...
Mother Lady Katherine Grey 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.
Isabella Brownson as Jane's sister, Katherine Grey Robyn Betteridge as Jane's sister, Margaret Grey Kate O'Flynn as the King's sister Princess Mary (a.k.a. Queen Mary)
Lady Katherine Grey (25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568) – married Henry Herbert, Lord Herbert and later Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford; Lady Mary Grey (c. 20 April 1545 – 20 April 1578) – married Thomas Keyes; Frances's residence at Bradgate was a minor palace in the Tudor style.
She was the sole witness to the secret marriage of her brother Edward to Lady Katherine Grey (a potential heir to Queen Elizabeth I) in 1560. The Seymour sisters tended to work together, with their most famous work being a collection of 103 Latin distichs , Hecatodistichon , for the tomb of Margaret of Valois , queen of Navarre and also an ...
Lady Jane Grey was the eldest daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and his wife, Frances Brandon.The traditional view is that she was born at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire in October 1537, but more recent research indicates that she was born somewhat earlier, possibly in London, sometime before May 1537 [8] [9] or between May 1536 and February 1537. [10]
He was married to Lady Katherine Grey, sister of Lady Jane Grey, on 25 May 1553, [3] in a political match arranged by their parents in the hopes of assisting the Duke of Northumberland with his plan to secure the succession of Jane who on the same day alongside her sister married the Duke's younger son, Lord Guildford Dudley.