Lord Edward Seymour (died 1593) facts for kids

Detail from of Seymour's effigy on the monument in Berry Pomeroy Church

Lord Edward Seymour (c. 1528 – 2 May 1593), knight, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, was Sheriff of Devon in 1583. He was knighted by his father the Duke of Somerset on the battlefield of Pinkie on 10 September 1547.

Biography

Lord Edward Seymour was the second son of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500 – 1552) by his first wife Catherine Fillol. ..... This resulted in both her sons being excluded in 1540 from their inheritances and their claims to their father's dignities in favour of his children by his second wife, Ann Stanhope; her eldest son succeeding his father as Duke of Somerset.

In June 1553 he received the manor of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, including Berry Pomeroy Castle.

Monument to Lord Edward Seymour and to his son and daughter-in-law, Berry Pomeroy Church

Seymour married Margaret Walshe, a daughter and co-heiress of John Walshe (c. 1517 – 1572) of Cathanger, Fivehead, Somerset, Justice of the Common Pleas in 1563, MP. by whom he had one son, Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet (d. 1613).

Monument in Berry Pomeroy church

A monument to Lord Edward Seymour survives in St Mary's Church, Berry Pomeroy, standing against the north wall of the north aisle of the Seymour Chapel. It was described by the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner (1952) as: "The figure carving astonishingly naive. To think that the children of Lord Protector Somerset were satisfied with this!" Hoskins (1959) on the contrary called it "fine".

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