John Seymour was born before 1519 as he was mentioned by his grandfather in an indenture dated that year.[1]
John was the son of Katherine, the daughter of Sir William Filliol of Woodlands, Horton, Dorset,[1] and his wife, Dorothy,[2] and Edward Seymour, son of Sir John Seymour, knight, of Wolf Hall, and his wife, Margery Wentworth, daughter of Henry Wentworth of Nettlestead, Suffolk.[1] In 1519, Sir William Filliol named his daughter, Katherine wife of Sir Edward Seymour, as one of his executors, and in her default, her son John was to take her place.[1]
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By his father's second wife, Anne Stanhope, John was the half-brother of:
declared his will and intent ' for many dyverse causes and considerations' to be that neither his 'doughter Katherine nor hir heires of hir boody ne Sir Edward Seymour hir husbonde in any wyse have any part or parcell' of his manors or estates, except certain lands of his inheritance lying within the county of Sussex. Instead, his executors were to take the yearly revenues, etc., for the performance of his will and 'duryng the lyff of . . . Dame Katherine Seymour,' were to pay her £40 a year from the profits 'for hir necessarie lyvyng . . . as longe as shee shall lyve vertuously and abide in some house of relegion of wymen. ... Yf my seid doughter do not lyve vertuously and abide in some honest house of relegion of wymen to the pleasing of God, then I will that my said doughter have no parcell of the said £40, but the said executors do dispose thereof towards the performance of my testament and last will and other good deeds of charitie.' Moreover, Sir Edward Seymour was to have no part in the said £40, but it should be delivered into the hands of the daughter. And 'if her husbond will not suffer hir to dispose it att hir pleasure for hir honest and necessarie lyving,' then the executors should deliver no part of the £40 to her, but of the same should 'paye for hir apparell and all hir other necessarie thinges as long as she shall order hir self.' If her husband would not suffer them to do this, then the money should be applied to the performance of the will.
In 1540, John and his brother, Edward, were excluded from their mother's and their father's inheritances, which were to pass to his father's children with his second wife, Anne.[1]
John represented the Borough of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, presumably elected in 1547, and mentioned in the Commons in 1552.[4] A John Seymour was imprisoned with his father, the Duke of Somerset, in the Tower of London, however, it was not this John, but the duke's illegitimate brother.[4]
John wrote his will on 7 December 1552, naming his brother, Sir Edward Seymour, executor and residuary legatee, and was buried on 19 December that month in the hospital of the Savoy.[4]
In 1553, Private Act, 7 Edward VI, c. 2, an Act for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Edward Seymor, Knight, Son and Heir of Edward Duke of Somersett, and the Lady Katherine Fyloll his first Wife, was passed in the House of Lords.[3] A Bill for Restitution in Blood of Sir Edward Seymour, Knight, son to the late Duke of Somerset, by the Lady Catherine Fybell was presented in the House of Commons on 27 March 1553.[5]
In 3 and 5 Phil & Mary, a private act was passed which included recompense to be made to John Seymour for his mother Katherine Fyloll's lands - Act: 5 Edw VI [act no ? as 5/24?][6]
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