Biography of John Seymour 1527-1552

John Seymour was imprisoned at Tower of London [Map].

In 1527 John Seymour was born to [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 27) and [his mother] Catherine Filliol (age 20) at Wulf aka Wolf Hall, Wiltshire [Map]. Paternity was questioned by Edward after it was alleged that Catherine had had an affair with her father-in-law John Seymour 1474-1536. He and his brother were excluded in 1540 from their paternal and maternal inheritances and all their claims to their father's dignities being postponed to his children by his second wife.

In 1527 [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 27) and [his mother] Catherine Filliol (age 20) were married.

Around 1535 [his mother] Catherine Filliol (age 28) died.

In April 1536 [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 36) and [his step-mother] Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 39) were married.

On 5th June 1536 [his father] Edward Seymour (age 36) was created 1st Viscount Beauchamp. See Letter 1074 and Letter 1075.

In 1540 John Seymour (age 13) was disinherited.

On 3rd June 1550 [his brother-in-law] John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick (age 23) and [his half-sister] Anne Seymour Countess of Warwick (age 12) were married at Sheen Palace [Map]. She the daughter of [his father] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 50) and [his step-mother] Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 53). He the son of John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 46) and Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland (age 41). They were fifth cousin once removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 19th December 1552. The xix day of Desember was bered master John Semer (age 25), the eldest sune unto the [his father] duke of Somersett latt dyssesyd, and bered at the hospetall of Savoy, and ther was a dolle.

Note. Funeral of master John Seymour. His will, dated Dec. 7, 1552, and proved April 26, 1553, is recorded in the prerogative court of Canterbury, and briefly quoted in Collins's Peerage. He died unmarried, making his whole brother sir Edward Seymour, the ancestor of the present duke of Somerset, his heir.

On 19th December 1552 John Seymour (age 25) died at Tower of London [Map].