Mary Seymour (30 August 1548 -after 30 August 1550) was the only daughter of Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, and Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII of England. Complications from Mary's birth would claim the life of her mother on 5 September 1548, and her father was executed less than a year later for treason against Edward VI.
In 1549, Parliament passed an Act (3 & 4 Edw. 6 C A P. XIV) removing the attainder placed on her father from ...
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Mary Seymour (30 August 1548 -after 30 August 1550) was the only daughter of Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, and Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII of England. Complications from Mary's birth would claim the life of her mother on 5 September 1548, and her father was executed less than a year later for treason against Edward VI.
In 1549, Parliament passed an Act (3 & 4 Edw. 6 C A P. XIV) removing the attainder placed on her father from Mary, but his lands remained property of the Crown.
As her mother's wealth was left entirely to her father and later confiscated by the Crown, little Mary was left a destitute orphan in the care of Katherine Willoughby Duchess of Suffolk. After 1550 Mary disappears from historical record completely, leading to the conclusion that she did not live past the age of two.
Victorian author Agnes Strickland claims in her biography of Catherine Parr that Mary Seymour did survive to adulthood, and in fact married Edward Bushel, a member of the...
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