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Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset and suo jure Baroness Percy (26 January 1667 – 23/24 November 1722) [1] was an English courtier. She was styled Lady Elizabeth Percy between 1667 and 1679, Countess of Ogle between 1679 and 1681, Lady Elizabeth Thynne between 1681 and 1682, and Duchess of Somerset between 1682 and 1722.
Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell (c. 1518–1568), sister of Queen Jane, the third wife of Henry VIII of England Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1667–1722), Whig politician Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776), née Seymour
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.
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
Percy was the only daughter of Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, and his wife, Frances, daughter of Henry Thynne. Her paternal grandmother was the great heiress Lady Elizabeth Percy. On 29th July 1740, she married Sir Hugh Smithson, Bt, and they had two sons, Hugh (1742–1817) and Algernon (1750–1830).
Elizabeth Seymour (c. 1518 [5] – 19 March 1568 [3]) was a younger daughter of Sir John Seymour of Wulfhall, Wiltshire and Margery Wentworth. [6] Elizabeth and her sister Jane served in the household of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII. [7] [8] [9] The Seymours rose to prominence after the king's attention turned to Jane. [10]
Somerset's son and heir apparent, Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford (1684–1749) had in 1725 produced a son of his own, Lord Beauchamp. However, in 1744 this grandson died unexpectedly without having married, and thus his only grandchild was a daughter and sole heiress, Lady Elizabeth Seymour, who in 1740 had married Sir Hugh Smithson, 4th ...
William Seymour, 3rd Duke of Somerset (d. 1671) Lady Elizabeth Seymour (c. 1655–1697) married Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury; With her second husband, Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (1629–1700), she had: Henry Somerset, Lord Herbert (bef. 1660), who died as infant