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

Khalid Elhassan March 22, 2019 24 min

35. The Seymours Lose a Queen, But Gain a King

In 1537, Jane Seymour accomplished what Henry VIII’s previous wives had failed to do, and gave birth to a male heir, Edward Tudor, the future king Edward VI. As relatives of a future king, the Seymour family’s stock rose even further, although it came at a price: Jane Seymour died of childbirth complications soon after producing the heir to the throne. Her brothers Thomas and Edward, making the best of their opportunity, cemented their place in the royal court, and steadily gained in stature and power.

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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.