Katherine (Fillol) Seymour (abt. 1504 - abt. 1535)

Born about 1504 in Fillot Hall, Essex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Seymour KG — married before 1519 in Savernake, Wiltshire, England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1535 at about age 31 in England

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Catherine Fillol was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Katherine Filliol was born before 1504 (her son John was living in 1519, if she was 15 when she had him).^[1]

Katherine was the daughter of Sir William Filliol of Woodlands, Horton, Dorset,^[1] and his wife, Dorothy, who by 1532 had married John Rogers, knight.^{[2] [3]}

Katherine was the sister of:

1. Anne Fyloll,^[3] who married Edward Willoughby, their marriage settlement was dated 10 Henry VIII^[4] [22 April 1518-21 April 1519];

By 1519, Katherine was married to Edward Seymour, son of Sir John Seymour, knight, of Wolf Hall, and his wife, Margery Wentworth, daughter of Henry Wentworth of Nettlestead, Suffolk, because an indenture made in that year by 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]

Katherine and Edward had children:

1. Sir John Seymour, born before 1519, died in the Tower of London in October 1551, buried in Savoy Hospital;^[1]
2. Sir Edward Seymour,^[5] knighted in 1547 at the Battle of Pinkie, settled at Berry Pomery, Devonshire,^[1]

Katherine's husband, Edward, and his father were Constables of Bristol Castle in 1517. Edward was knighted in 1523 in France, by the Duke of Suffolk. In 1527, Edward was part of Wolsey's embassy in France.^[1]

Her husband Edward Seymour repudiated her on grounds of adultery.^[6]

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.

Between 1529 and 1532, Edward Seymer, knight, and Dame Katherine, his wife petitioned for the examination of aged witnesses, [the said Sir John Rogers, and Thomas Scherlye and John Rowdon], to deeds relating to the manors of Harrynge and Sellinge by Monks Horton, to land there and in Lympne, Estrynghanger [Ostenhanger in Stanford], Horton, Burmarsh, West Hythe, Dymchurch and Aldington, and to the manor of Steeple, late of the said Dorothy. Subpoena ad testificandum. Kent, Essex.^[2] Between 1532 and 1538, John Rogers, knight, Dorothy his wife, Edward Willoughby, knight, and Anne his wife, sued Margaret Lewkenour regarding entries on the manor of Southwick, held with those of Woodmancote, Thurle (Truly in Edburton), and Goring by William Fylolle, knight, late husband of the said Dorothy and father of the said Anne, and detention of deeds. Sussex.^[3]

In April 1536, Sir Edward Seymour, who later was created Duke of Somerset, was married to his second wife, Anne Stanhope, and they were living in Greenwich Palace.^[1]

In 1540, Katherine's children were excluded from her inheritance and their father's which were to pass to Edward's children with and his second wife, Anne, who were:^[1]

1. Edward, Earl of Hertford;
2. Admiral Henry Seymour;
3. a son died young;
4. a son died young;
5. Anne, married 1) John Dudley, son of the Earl of Northumberland, and 2) Sir Edward Unton;
6. Margaret;
7. Jane, maid-of-honour to Queen Elizabeth I of England, died 20 March 1560/1;
8. Katherine;
9. Mary, married 1) Andrew Rogers of Bryanstone, Dorset, and 2) Sir Henry Peyton;
10. Elizabeth, married Sir Richard Knightly of Fawsley, Northamptonshire;

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.^[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?]^[8]

From 1750, the Dukes of Somerset have been Katherine's descendants.^[1]

Sources

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. IV. p. 618

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} A Audrey Locke, The Seymour Family History and Romance, 5-6, 31-4, 74-5, 365, (London: Constable and Company LTD, 1911) Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/seymourfamilyhis00lond#page/30/mode/2up : accessed 22 February 2016).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The National Archives Website: Discovery: C 1/673/26, Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions, Short title: Seymer v Rogers. Plaintiffs: Edward Seymer, knight, and Dame Katherine, (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7478240 : accessed 22 February 2016).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} The National Archives Website: Discovery: C 1/708/6, Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions, Records of Equity Side: the Six Clerks, Short title: Rogers v Lewkenour. Plaintiffs: John Rogers, knight, Dorothy his wife, (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/18e47833-2dca-4ea5-aebb-a2e2f4976371 : accessed 22 February 2016).
4. ↑ The National Archives Website: Discovery: Mi D 4817, Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, GB 159 Mi - The Family and Estate Papers of the Willoughby Family, Lords Middleton, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, Middleton, Warwickshire and Birdsall, Yorkshire; c.1150-c.1986, Mi D 4817 - Marriage settlement of Edward Willoughby and Anne, daughter of William Fyloll, (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/18e47833-2dca-4ea5-aebb-a2e2f4976371 : accessed 22 February 2016).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} The National Archives Website: Discovery: HL/PO/PB/1/1553/7E6n16, Parliamentary Archives, Records of the Parliament Office, House of Lords, Private Act, 7 Edward VI, c. 2, (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/bf1227e7-9981-404a-8a55-53a8fd4b40f3 : accessed 22 February 2016).
6. ↑ Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney. A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, Taylor & Francis, 2016, p. 522, Google Books
7. ↑ The National Archives: Will of Sir William Fyloll or Filoll of Woodlands, Dorset, PROB 11/22/406, National Archives catalogue entry
8. ↑ The National Archives Website: Discovery: C 89/5/30, Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions; Records of Equity Side: The Clerk of Records and Writs; An act to ratify the act of parliament made 32 Hen VIII for Edward [Seymour], (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C403198 : accessed 22 February 2016).

See also:

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Community Trees," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3HPV-4JF : accessed 2016-02-21), entry for Katherine /Fillol/. Ancestral File Number: 9G1P-DB.
• Aubrey, John. Wiltshire. The Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, F.R.S., 1659-70, with Illustrations. (Longman & Co., London, 1862) Page 375: footnote 'a'