Lady Margaret Seymour

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

Lady Margaret Seymour (1540 – ?) was a 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

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

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