Lady Margaret Seymour

Lady Margaret Seymour
Father	Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
Mother	Anne Stanhope
Born	1540
Died	?

Lady Margaret Seymour (1540 – ?) was an influential writer during the sixteenth century in England, along with her sisters, Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick and Lady Jane Seymour, including of the Hecatodistichon .^[1] She was the daughter of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, who from 1547 was the Lord Protector of England after the death of Henry VIII and during the minority of Margaret's first cousin, Edward VI. She was thus the niece of Henry VIII's third wife, Queen Jane Seymour.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Lady Margaret 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 Margaret 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. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Seymour, Lady Jane (1541–1561), writer by Jane Stevenson