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 224 HERTFORD. hnirs mule of his b >riy by Ann, his then wife. Sec. From 24 T> ec. 1548 to 13 Oct 1549, he was Protector Of THE Realm. He was beheaded and attainted 22 Jan. 1552, whereby all hi* honour i became forfeited. See fuller account under "Somerset," Dukedom, cr. 1547 ; forfeited'*) 1552. IX. 1559. /. Sri! Edward Seymour, 3d *». of Edward, Duk"of Somerset, and Kahi. OF HERTFORD next above named, but his e eat sou by his second wife, Anne, da. of Sir Edward Stanhope ; was b. (the same day as King Edw. VI), 12 Oct. 1537, and, being (under the spec. rem. in the creation of those dignities) heir ap. to his father's Dukedom and Earldom, was styled Kahi. of Heri- k)rd, 1547 to 1552 (when those honours were forfeited) mid, being so styled, was one of the 40 knights (made as K.B.s) 20 Feb. 1546/7, at the coron. of Edward VI.,( b ) was a hostage to France, 7 April 1559 ; w as corrupted in blond by his father's attainder in 1552, but restored by Act of Pari. (1553-511, 1 Mary, and was cr. 13 Jan. 1553/9 (as "Edward Seymor, Knt.") BARON BEATJOH AMP and KARL Of HERTFORD. Not long afterwards he incurred the Royal displeasure by his private marriage about Dee. 1560 (between All Hallowtide and Christmas) at the Earl's house in Canon Row, Wesfcni., with Catharine,('') the repudiated wife of Henry Herbert, styled Loan Herbert. 2d da. and coheir of Henry (Grey), Dl'KK of SUFFOLK, by his second wife, France?, da. of Charles (BraSDOS Duke OF SUFFOLK, by the lady Mary TUDOH, da. of King Henry VII. The Commissioners appointed to "judge" of the "infamous" proceeding and the "pretended marriage" pro- nounced, 12 May 1562, that there had been no marriage,^ and the Earl was lined £15,000, both parties being imprisoned. The Countess wdio was probably b. in 1538, d. 27 Jan. 1567/8, at Cockfield Hull, in Yoxford, Suffolk (the country house of her jailor, Sir Owen Hopton, then Li'iot. of the Tower) and was ln~r. 21 Feb. at Yoxford. After her death the Karl was made M.A., of Cambridge. 30 Aug. 1571, and some 20 years later entertained the Queen at his seat at Klvetham, in Hampshire ; Lord I.ieut. of Somersetshire and Wiltshire, 1602 and again ItiOS ; being sent on an Embassy to Brussels, from April to May 1605. lie in. secondly (Lie. D. and C. of Westm., 27 May 1601), Frances, sister of Charles, 1st Eirl or shall precede as the saide late King determyned," and it was also ordered "that a patent shuld be made oute to tV Erie of Ilevtforde afforesaiil for a confirmacien to him of the Barony of Seymour." Of the eleven persons thus meutionod by the late King no notice was taken of three, viz. (1) of the son of the Earl of Hertford recommended for an Earldom and (2 of Sir John St Leger and (3) Sir Christopher Danby both recommended for Baronies, while of the remaining eight (in Feb. 1546/7) (1) Edward (Seymour), Earl of Hertford, was cr. Duke of Somerset, one of the three titles above suggested; (2) William (I'arr), Earl of Esses, was cr. Marquess of Northampton, not "of Essex," as above suggested; (3) John (Dudley), Viscount L'Isle, was cr. Earl of Warwick, not " of Coventry," as above suggested : (4). Thomas ( VYriothesley), Baron U'riothesley, was cr. Karl ok Soctuamptox, not "of Winchester," as above suggested ; (5) Sir Thomas Seymour was cr. Baron Sevmodr of Sudeley ; (6) Sir Richard Rich was cr. Baron Rich ; (7) Sir Edmund Sheffield was cr. Baron Sheffield and (8) Sir William Willoughby was cr. Baron Willouohby of Farham. ( a ) Tho' the Dukedom of Somerset and the Barony of Seymour were restored in 1660 the Earldom of Hertford (cr. 1537) and the Viwrnntcij of Bmuch imp are still under forfeiture. ( b ) See vol. iii. p 71, note " c," sub "Derby." ( c ) A good account of Lady Catharine Grey is in G. L. Craik's " Romance of the Peerage," vol. ii, sub "The sisters of Lady Jane Grey." Her marriage to Lord Herbert waR on the same day (21 May 1553) as that of Lady Jane ; it was dissolved or declared null by the influence of the Earl of Pembroke, her husband's father, when the Grey family had fallen. Fuller speaks of her as " This Heraclita, or Lady of Lamentation, thus repudiated, seldom seen with dry eyes for some years together," &c. ( d ) " The validity of this marriage being afterwards tried at common law, the Minister who married them being present and other circumstances agreeing, the jury found it a good marriage." Collini, vol. i, p. 173.