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Paternal Family Tree: Seymour
In or before 1468 [his uncle] John Seymour (age 17) and [his mother] Elizabeth Darrell (age 13) were married.
Around 1474 John Seymour was born to [his uncle] John Seymour (age 24) and [his mother] Elizabeth Darrell (age 20) at Wulf aka Wolf Hall, Wiltshire [Map].
Around 1480 [his mother] Elizabeth Darrell (age 26) died.
After 1480 [his uncle] John Seymour (age 30) and Unknown Hardon were married.
On 26th October 1491 [his uncle] John Seymour (age 41) died.
On 22nd October 1494 John Seymour (age 20) and Margery Wentworth were married.
In 1497 John Seymour (age 23) was knighted.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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On 1498 John Seymour (age 24) was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire.
In 1498 [his son] John Seymour was born to John Seymour (age 24).
In 1500 [his son] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset was born to John Seymour (age 26) and [his wife] Margery Wentworth. He married (1) 1527 Catherine Filliol and had issue (2) April 1536 Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset and had issue.
In 1503 [his son] Henry Seymour was born to John Seymour (age 29) and [his wife] Margery Wentworth.
Around 1508 [his son] Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour was born to John Seymour (age 34) and [his wife] Margery Wentworth at Wulf aka Wolf Hall, Wiltshire [Map]. He married May 1547 his sixth cousin Catherine Parr Queen Consort England and had issue.
Around 1509 [his daughter] Jane Seymour was born to John Seymour (age 35) and [his wife] Margery Wentworth at Wulf aka Wolf Hall, Wiltshire [Map]. She married 30th May 1536 her half fourth cousin once removed King Henry VIII of England and Ireland, son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England, and had issue.
In 1510 [his son] John Seymour (age 12) died.
After 1510 [his son] John Seymour was born to John Seymour (age 36) and [his wife] Margery Wentworth.
On or before 15th July 1510 [his son] John Seymour was born to John Seymour (age 36) and [his wife] Margery Wentworth. On 15th July 1510 John Seymour died.
Around 1516 [his daughter] Dorothy Seymour was born to John Seymour (age 42) and [his wife] Margery Wentworth. She married before 26th August 1552 Clement Smith.
Around 1518 [his daughter] Elizabeth Seymour Baroness Cromwell Oakham was born to John Seymour (age 44) and [his wife] Margery Wentworth at Wulf aka Wolf Hall, Wiltshire [Map]. She married (1) 1531 Anthony Ughtred, son of Robert Ughtred 5th Baron Ughtred and Catherine Eure Baroness Ughtred, and had issue (2) 3rd August 1537 Gregory Cromwell 1st Baron Cromwell Oakham, son of Thomas Cromwell 1st Earl Essex and Elizabeth Wyckes, and had issue (3) March 1554 her fifth cousin John Paulet 2nd Marquess Winchester, son of William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester.
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The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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In 1527 [his son] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 27) and [his daughter-in-law] Catherine Filliol (age 20) were married.
In 1528 [his daughter] Margery Seymour died.
In 1528 [his son] Anthony Seymour died.
Around 1531 [his son-in-law] Anthony Ughtred (age 53) and [his daughter] Elizabeth Seymour Baroness Cromwell Oakham (age 13) were married. The difference in their ages was 40 years.
In 1532 John Seymour (age 58) was appointed Groom of the Bedchamber.
In April 1536 [his son] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 36) and [his daughter-in-law] Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 39) were married.
On 30th May 1536 [his son-in-law] Henry VIII (age 44) and [his daughter] Jane Seymour (age 27) were married at Whitehall Palace [Map] by Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester (age 53). She by marriage Queen Consort England. He the son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England. They were half fourth cousin once removed.
Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland (age 41) and Margaret Dymoke aka Mistress Coffin (age 36) were appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Jane Seymour.
Chronicle of Edward Hall [1496-1548]. 30th May 1536. The week before Whitsuntide the [his son-in-law] King (age 44) married [his daughter] lady Jane (age 27) daughter to the right worshipful Sir John Seymor (age 62) knight, which at Whitsuntide was openly showed as Queen.
On 21st December 1536 John Seymour (age 62) died.
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William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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After 21st December 1536. All Saints Church, Maiden Bradley [Map]. Monument to John Seymour (deceased). 
Seymour Arms differenced with a Crescent impaled with unknown arms quartered 1 Argent a fess between 3 martlets Gules in chief three fox heads erased 2 per pale Azure three fleur de lys Or 3 Or three talbots courant 4 Or a chevrom Limine between 3 stags heads caboshed. The note below states... The above tablet (a copy of the original in Great Bedwyn [Map]) is placed here by Algernon 15th Duke of Somerset September 1899.
[his daughter] Margery Seymour was born to John Seymour and Margery Wentworth.
[his son] Anthony Seymour was born to John Seymour and Margery Wentworth.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 16 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 18 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 16 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King John of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 21 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 19 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Seymour
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Seymour 8 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 4 Grandmother: Cicely Beauchamp 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Seymour 9 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Seymour 10 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 2 Grandmother: Maud Esturney
GrandFather: John Seymour 11 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Williams
Father: John Seymour 12 x Great Grand Son of
GrandMother: Elizabeth Coker
John Seymour 9 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Darrell
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Darrell
GrandFather: George Darrell of Littlecote
Mother: Elizabeth Darrell 8 x Great Grand Daughter of
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Stourton 
3 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stourton 4 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Stourton 5 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Stourton 1st Baron Stourton 6 x Great Grand Son of
GrandMother: Margaret Stourtron 7 x Great Grand Daughter of