Margaret (Wentworth) Seymour (bef. 1478 - aft. 1550)

Born before 1478 in Nettlestead, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Wife of John Seymour — married about 1494 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 5 Oct 1550 after age 72 in Little Maldon, Essex, England

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Biography

Margery Wentworth (aka Margaret) was born c. 1478, died – 18 October 1550)

Father: Henry Wentworth

Mother: Anne Saye

Spouse: Sir John Seymour and became the mother of Queen Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII of England. She was the grandmother of King Edward VI of England.^[1]

The Seymours were descendants of a companion of William the Conqueror, who took their name from St. Maur-sur-Loire in Touraine, and who was an ancestor of William de St. Maur.^[2]

Margery's first cousins, courtiers Elizabeth and Edmund Howard, were parents to an earlier and later royal wife than her daughter: Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, respectively.

Elizabeth Cheney's first husband was Frederick Tylney, father of Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey.This made Anne Say although not of peerage-level nobility herself, the half-sister of a countess. Wentworth was also a descendant of King Edward III's son Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence. This remote royal ancestry is partly why Henry VIII found Jane Seymour (her daughter) marriageable. ^[3]

Margery was sent to join the household of her mother’s half sister, Elizabeth Tylney, countess of Surrey, at Sheriff Hutton Castle, Yorkshire, and was there at the time poet John Skelton was writing his poem the Garland of Laurel in praise of the countess and her ladies. The work included a shorter piece titled “To Mistress Margery Wentworth" in which she is described as “Benign, courteous, and meek, With words well devised; In you, who list to seek, Be virtues well comprised.” ^[4]

Children:

1. John Seymour (died 15 July 1510)^[5]
2. Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of Edward VI (c.1500/1506 – 22 Jan 1552), first married Catherine, daughter of Sir William Filliol; and secondly Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope.^[6]
3. Sir Henry Seymour (1503 – 1578) married Barbara, daughter of Morgan Wolfe^[7]
4. Sir Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley (c. 1508 – 20 March 1549) married Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII.^[8]
5. John Seymour (died young)^[9]
6. Anthony Seymour (died c. 1528)^[10]
7. Jane Seymour, (c. 1509 – 24 October 1537) Queen Consort of Henry VIII and the mother of Edward VI.^[11]
8. Elizabeth Seymour (c. 1518 – 19 Mar 1568), married firstly Sir Anthony Ughtred. Married secondly Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell. Her third husband was John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester.^[12]
9. Margery Seymour (died c. 1528)
10. Dorothy Seymour married firstly, Sir Clement Smith (c. 1507 – 26 August 1552) of Little Baddow, Essex and secondly, Thomas Leventhorpe of Shingle Hall, Hertfordshire.^[13]

After her husband's death, Margery did not remarry, and instead took on a major role in her childrens' education and lives.^[14]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
2. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
3. ↑ Source: "Jane Seymour" . en.wikipedia.org. Accessed 25 Aug 2015. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Seymour
4. ↑ Source: 'John Skelton (1460?-1529). "To Mistress Margery Wentworth" Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. URL: http://www.bartleby.com/101/30.html
5. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
6. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
7. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
8. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
9. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
10. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
11. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
12. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
13. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
14. ↑ Source: Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. IV. p. 618
• Margaret Wentworth. en.wikipedia.org. Update: 01 July 2014. Accessed: 01 Nov 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0) URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wentworth
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• Aubrey, John. Wiltshire. The Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, F.R.S., 1659-70, with Illustrations. (Longman & Co., London, 1862) Page 375

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