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Hace 3 días · The estate passed, with Moorland manor in North Petherton, to Sir John Seymour, and from him to his son Edward, duke of Somerset. (fn. 157) On the duke's attainder and execution in 1552 his son John claimed the manor as the inheritance of his mother, the duke's first wife.
Hace 2 días · In 1547 Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, acquired the reversion of the two leases and in addition a lease of the abbey precinct. (fn. 51) After his temporary disgrace Somerset returned to power in 1550 and his reversionary lease was converted to a grant in fee of all former abbey lands in Glastonbury, although in practice only Speke ...
Hace 4 días · This John Seymour died in 1492, leaving a son John, who entertained Henry VIII at Elvetham in the October of 1535, and on his death in the following year was succeeded by his second but first surviving son Edward. Edward Seymour was created Earl of Hertford in 1537, and Duke of Somerset in 1547.
Hace 1 día · Inquisition, 8 November, 19 Henry VII. He died 28 January, 18 Henry VII, seised in fee of the under-mentioned manors and lands &c. —— Whitton, aged 21 years and more, is his son and heir. SALOP. Manor of Fayntre, worth 106 s. 8 d ., held of the king in chief by knight-service.
Hace 2 días · We are grateful for David Coast’s perceptive review of The Murder of King James I and for his interesting questions about further research. As he suggests, a properly historicized approach to how contemporaries imagined that political life operated is essential to further progress in the field, and, in the past few months, our understanding of this particular issue has come into even sharper ...
Hace 2 días · Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, was described by contemporaries as a brave and chivalrous knight, but also as a man of great ambition and pride. He had distinguished himself in the latter stages of the Hundred Years‘ War, serving as Lieutenant-General in France from 1446 to 1450.
Hace 1 día · Petworth House was built in the 1600s and rebuilt under Charles Seymour, the 6th Duke of Somerset in 1688. It is a fine country house, listed as a Grade I building and is home to an alluring collection of artworks, and has an interesting architectural history, boasting designs from the 1870s architect Anthony Salvin and wood carver Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721).
