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William Seymour, 3rd Duke of Somerset (17 April 1652 – 12 December 1671) was the son of Henry Seymour, Lord Beauchamp, and Mary Capell.As both his father and two elder uncles had predeceased him, he succeeded to the dukedom on the death of his grandfather William Seymour.. He died in 1671, unmarried and childless and was succeeded by his paternal uncle John Seymour.
When William Seymour -2nd Duke of Somerset was born on 1 September 1587, in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England, his father, Edward Seymour Viscount Beauchamp, was 25 and his mother, Honora Rogers, was 25. He married Lady Arabella Stuart or Stewart in 1610, in Essex, England, United Kingdom.
After a dinner with Edward VI on 16th October 1551, Seymour was arrested and taken to the Tower of London. On 1st December 1551, Seymour was tried by his peers. He pleaded “not guilty”. He defended himself skilfully and was acquitted of treason but found guilty of bringing men together to riot against the king.
William Seymour 1650–1671 3rd Duke of Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Hertford: John Seymour c. 1646 –1675 4th Duke of Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Hertford, 4th Earl of Hertford: Francis Seymour 1658–1678 5th Duke of Somerset, 3rd Lord Seymour of Trowbridge: Charles Seymour 1662–1748 6th Duke of Somerset: Henry Somerset ...
(40) William Paget, letter to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset (December, 1549) (41) Roger Lockyer, Tudor and Stuart Britain (1985) page 92 (42) Barrett L. Beer, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004-2014) (43) Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer : Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004-2014)
(1) Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp of Hache (1561-1612), who married Honora Rogers and fathered six children, including William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, who later married another potential heiress to the throne, Arbella Stuart, in similar circumstances.
On 22 January 1552 Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, was beheaded at Tower Hill watched by a large crowd. Despite orders from the government for the citizens of London to remain in their homes that morning, a great multitude had gathered to watch the final moments of the ‘Good Duke’. Yet just five years earlier Somerset had been planning ...
