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Katherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford (née Lady Katherine Grey; 25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568) [1] [2] was a younger sister of Lady Jane Grey.. A granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, she emerged as a prospective successor to her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, before incurring Queen Elizabeth's wrath by secretly marrying Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford.
Countess of Hertford is a title given to the wife of the Earl of Hertford. Women who have held the title include: Isabel Marshal (1200–1240) Maud de Lacy, Countess of Hertford and Gloucester (1223-1289) Lady Katherine Grey (1540-1568) Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond (1578-1639) Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1699–1754)
Catherine Parr then married Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley and Lord High Admiral. Lady Jane followed her to her new household. Frances, her husband, and other members of the aristocracy saw Jane as a possible wife for the young King. Catherine Parr died on 5 September 1548 which sent Jane back into the care of her mother.
Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Baron Beauchamp, KG (22 May 1539 – 6 April 1621), of Wulfhall and Totnam Lodge in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset, of Netley Abbey, Hampshire, and of Hertford House, Cannon Row in Westminster, is most noted for incurring the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth I by taking part in more than one clandestine marriage.
He was the son of Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (1539–1621), by his wife Lady Katherine Grey (died 1568), a younger sister of Lady Jane Grey, "The Nine Days' Queen". His grandfather was Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (executed 1552), all of whose titles became forfeit on his attainder by the Parliament of England , during the ...
St. Dunstan's was commissioned by the Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford and designed by Decimus Burton. ... the residence of Count and Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, in 1938.
Katherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford [19] Potential heirs by the will of Henry VIII: First cousin once-removed [15] 17 November 1558 First cousin once-removed became queen 26 January 1568 Died Lady Mary Keyes [19] First cousin once-removed [15] 26 January 1568 Sister died 20 April 1578 Died Margaret Stanley, Dowager Countess of Derby [20]
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford (née Thynne; 10 May 1699 – 7 July 1754), later the Duchess of Somerset, was a British courtier and the wife of Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford, who became the 7th Duke of Somerset in 1748. She was also known as a poet, literary patron and woman of letters. [1]