Question from Peggy - Margaret Wentworth Seymour
posted by Lara | 5:41 PM
Just curious. Does anyone know what happened to Margaret Wentworth Seymour the mother of Jane, Thomas, and Edward? I know her husband died when Jane was Queen but it seems as if she's never mentioned again.
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Howdy Peggy,
I haven't come across a whole lot about her, although I did find that she lived into Edward VI's (who was, of course, her grandson) reign and died in 1550.
Oh, and BTW, her name was actually Margery, not Margaret. Very easy to get those two mixed up!
I know that Margery had ten children, which was taken as a good sign that her daughter Jane would bear healthy children, and made her all the more attractive to Henry.
Some people believe that the English poet,John Skelton, wrote a poem about her entitled "To Mistress Margery Wentworth." You can view this poem in "The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918"
(Edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, 1940.) You might also be able to view the poem on line via Google Books. Type in http://books.google.com/. Then type in "Margery Wentworth" in the search box. The first item should be "English Lyric Poetry 1500-1700." If you click on this title it should bring you directly to Skelton's poem.
RMG
One of the latest biographies of Edward VI notes that he did not attend his grandmother's funeral. I have read that kings do not attend funerals, but I also wondered if the comparative lack of pomp might show a lack of enthuasiasm on his part for his relatively low-born Seymour relations.
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