Sir John Seymour (1474-1536) - Find a Grave Memorial

Sir John Seymour

Birth

1474

Death

21 Dec 1536 (aged 61–62)

Burial

St Mary Churchyard

Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England Show Map

Plot

Chancel

Memorial ID

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Knight of Wolfhall in Savernake, Wiltshire, Sheriff of Wiltshire.

Son and heir to John Seymour of Wulfhall and Elizabeth Darrell, grandson of Sir John Seymour and Elizabeth Coker, Sir George Darell and Margaret Stourton.

Husband of Margery Wentworth, the daughter of Sir Henry Wentworth and Anne Say, daughter of sir John. They were married 22 Oct 1494 and had six sons and four daughters, including:
* Margery 1502-1520
* Sir John Seymour d 1510
* Sir Henry Seymour
* Dorothy, wife of Sir Clement Smyth & Thomas Levinthorpe
* Sir Edward, Earl of Hertford and Duke of Somerset Cenotaph
* Sir Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley, married Catherine Parr, the last wife of King Henry VIII
* Jane Seymour, wife of King Henry VIII of England, Queen of England
* Elizabeth, wife of Lord Gregory Cromwell
* Anthony Seymour

Sir John also had an illegitimate son, Sir John Seymour, who married twice and had issue.

John was English gentry and a courtier to King Henry VIII. Sir John fought for Henry VII against the Cornish in 1497, knighted in the field after the battle. He wa at the Siege of Tournia in 1513, and at the Field of the Cloth of Gold as well, invested as Knight banneret, and High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1507, High Sheriff of Somerset and Knight of the Bath.

Sir John was buried at Easton Priory, and later removed to the chancel at Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire. His daughter, Queen Jane, did not attend the funeral, as it was 'royal custom' to stay away.

Bio by: Anne Shurtleff Stevens

Inscription

Here lyeth intombed the worthie Sr John Seymour of Wolfhall, Knight, who by Margerie his wyfe, daughter of Sr Henry Wentworthe, Knight, from whome the nowe Lorde Wentworthe is discended, had sixe sonnes and fower daughters, to wete, John who dyed unmaryed; Edwarde, Duke of Somerset, Earl of Hertforde, Vicount Beauchampe and Baron Seymour, uncle to Kinge Edwarde the Sixt, Governor of his Royall Person, Protector of all his Dominions and Subjects, Lorde Treasorer and Earle Marshall of Englande; w(i)ch Duke maryed Anne, daughter of Sr Edwarde Stanhope, Knight, by Elizabeth his wyfe, daughter of Sr Foulke Burgchier, Lorde Filzwaryn, [sic] from whome the moderne Earles of Bathe are discended; Sr Henry Seymour, Knight, who maried Barbara daughter of Thomas Morgan, Esquier; Thomas Lorde Seymour of Sudeley, Highe Admirall of Englande, who maryed Katherine, Queene of Englande, and wydow to Kinge Henry the Eight. One other Jhon, and Anthony, who dyed in theire infancy. Jane Qveene of Englande, wyfe to Kynge Henry the Eight, and mother to Kynge Edwarde the Sixt; Elizabeth, firste maryed to Sr Henry Ughtred,(sic) Knight, after to Gregorie, Lorde Cromwell, and last to Jhon Lorde Sainct John of Basinge,[sic] after Marquesse of Winchester; Margery, who dyed in her infancy, and Dorothe, maryed to Sr Clement Smythe, Knight. This Knight departed this lyfe at LX yeares of age, the XXI day of December, Anno 1536, and was firste buryed at Eston Priorie Churche amongst divers of his auncestors, bothe Seymours and Sturmyes. Howbeit that Churche beinge ruyned, and thereby all theire monumentes either whollie spoyled, or verie much defased duringe the mynoritie of Edwarde, Earle of Hertforde, sonne to the said Duke, the said Earle after, as well for the dutyfull love he beareth to his said grandefather, as for the better contynuans of his memory, did cause his bodie to be removed, and here to be intombed at his own coste and chardge, the laste daye of September, Anno 1590, in the XXXII yeare of the moste happye raigne of our gratious Soveraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth.