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

Khalid Elhassan March 22, 2019 24 min

36. Sibling Rivalry and Envy

The fortunes of Thomas Seymour rose when his sister became queen of England, which undoubtedly pleased him. The only fly in his ointment was that, while his fortunes rose, the fortunes of his elder brother, Edward Seymour, rose even higher. That gnawed at Thomas and filled him with envy, because he had reportedly resented his older brother ever since they were children. Sibling rivalry is nothing unusual in of itself, but as will be seen here, Thomas took it to such extraordinary lengths that it ended up costing him his head.

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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.