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40 Facts About the Tudor Era’s Awful Courtier, Thomas Seymour

Khalid Elhassan March 22, 2019 24 min

31. He Served in His Nephew’s Regency Council

Henry VIII, passing power on to Edward VI and his regency council. Wikimedia

Henry VIII died in 1547, and was succeeded by his 9 year old son, and Seymour’s nephew, Edward VI. A regency council was set up to rule England during the king’s minority, to which Thomas Seymour, now 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, was appointed. So was his older brother Edward, who received an even more prestigious title of nobility, and became Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. Thomas’ envy of his older brother, which had lain dormant while he was abroad, was rekindled.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.