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

Khalid Elhassan March 22, 2019 24 min

37. The Seymours Went From Relative Nobodies to Members of the Royal Family

On May 20th, just one day after Henry made himself eligible for remarriage by chopping off the head of his wife, Anne Boleyn, he was betrothed to Jane Seymour. They were married ten days later. Politics and politicking in those days revolved around proximity and access to the king, so Jane Seymour’s marriage to Henry VIII immediately catapulted her family from minor country gentry whom few had heard of until then, and into the ranks of major political players.

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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.