Lady Jane Seymour

Lady Jane Seymour (c.1541 – 19 March 1561)[1] was an influential writer during the sixteenth century in England, along with her sisters, Lady Margaret Seymour and Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick.[2] Their brothers were Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford and Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley. They were the children of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, who from 1547 was the Lord Protector of England after the death of King Henry VIII and during the minority of Jane's first cousin, King Edward VI. She was baptised 22 February 1541, and her godparents were Thomas Cromwell (the King's chief minister), Lady Mary (the King's daughter, at the time declared illegitimate but later to become queen) and Katherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, and queen at the time. Jane was thus the niece of Henry VIII's third wife, Queen Jane, whom she was probably named after. She was the sole witness to the secret marriage of her brother Edward to Lady Katherine Grey (a potential heir to Queen Elizabeth I) in 1560. She died a year later, aged 20, probably of tuberculosis.

This article is about Anne Stanhope's daughter. For Henry VIII's wife, see Jane Seymour. For other women, see Jane Seymour (disambiguation).

Lady Jane Seymour
Born	c.1541
Died	c.1561
Father	Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
Mother	Anne Stanhope

The Seymour sisters tended to work together, with their most famous work being a collection of 103 Latin distichs, Hecatodistichon, for the tomb of Margaret of Valois, queen of Navarre and also an author, which was published in 1550.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Lady Jane Seymour

16. John Seymour 8. John Seymour 17. Elizabeth Coker 4. Sir John Seymour 18. Sir George Darrell 9. Elizabeth Darell 19. Margaret Stourton 2. Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset 20. Sir Philip Wentworth 10. Sir Henry Wentworth 21. Mary Clifford 5. Margery Wentworth 22. Sir John Say 11. Anne Say 23. Elizabeth Cheney 1. Lady Jane Seymour 24. John Stanhope 12. Thomas Stanhope 25. Elizabeth Talbot 6. Sir Edward Stanhope 26. Sir John Jerningham 13. Margaret Jerningham 27. Isabel Clifton 3. Anne Stanhope 28. William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin 14. Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin 29. Thomasina Hankeford, 9th Baroness FitzWarin 7. Elizabeth Bourchier 30. John Dinham, 6th Baron Dinham 15. Elizabeth Dinham 31. Joan Arches

References

1. Alison Plowden, Lady Jane Grey (History Press, 2004), p 173
2. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Seymour, Lady Jane (1541–1561), writer, by Jane Stevenson