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Historical person
1508–1549
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, was the ambitious younger brother of Jane Seymour and uncle of Edward VI. After Henry VIII’s death he married the widowed Catherine Parr and became lord high admiral, but his political manoeuvring and disturbing familiarity with the young Princess Elizabeth damaged his position.
Accused of plotting against the protectorate, he was executed for treason in 1549. Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley was born in Wulfhall and died in Tower Hill.
Deryn Lake’s Pour the Dark Wine follows Thomas Seymour as the ambitious younger brother in a family transformed by Jane Seymour’s marriage to Henry VIII and Edward Seymour’s later protectorship. Alison Weir’s Katharine Parr makes Thomas the husband Catherine finally chooses after Henry’s death, only for ambition, scandal and pregnancy to destabilise their household. The Lady Elizabeth focuses on his dangerous familiarity with the teenage Elizabeth, behaviour that threatens the princess’s reputation after Catherine’s death. Sam Burnell’s The Tudor Heresy uses the same Seymour household and his rivalry with the Lord Protector as the political background to its intrigue. David Field’s An Uneasy Crown places Thomas’s resentment of his brother Edward at the centre of the factional struggle surrounding the child king Edward VI.
Series
Tudor Ladies in Waiting presents the Tudor court through women who serve queens at moments of religious and dynastic crisis. Margaret Lee, the fictional Juliana St John and Helena Snakenborg provide close viewpoints on Anne Boleyn, Katherine Parr and Elizabeth I, linking public politics to friendship, household service…
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The Tudor Saga recounts the dynasty from Henry VII’s exile and victory in the Wars of the Roses to the final years of Elizabeth I. Historical rulers, ministers and royal relatives occupy the centre of the sequence, while fictional attendants and agents reveal how decisions at court affect…
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The Plantagenet and Tudor novels form a chronological sequence of connected but independently readable stories about women near the English throne. They move from the Lancastrian court and the Wars of the Roses through the rise of the Tudors, Henry VIII’s marriages, the mid-Tudor religious crisis and the…
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G. J. Williams’s Tudor Rose Murders follow the historical scholar, mathematician and astrologer John Dee and his fictional apprentice Margaretta Morgan through murder investigations embedded in the dynastic and religious crises of the mid-Tudor period. The Conjuror’s Apprentice is set under Mary I in 1555; The Wolf’s Shadow…
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The Six Tudor Queens sequence retells the lives of Henry VIII’s wives through six full-length novels. Twelve companion stories shift attention to relatives, servants, artists and courtiers affected by the same events, while Six Tudor Queens: Writing a New Story explains the project’s historical method. In the Shadow…
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These two connected novels follow Elizabeth I from childhood to the end of her reign. The Lady Elizabeth portrays the insecurity, scandal and religious danger that formed the future queen, while The Marriage Game explores her rule through the long relationship with Robert Dudley and the political use…
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The Richard Fitzwarren Tudor Historical series, also known as Mercenary for Hire or the Tudor Mystery Trials, follows the fictional brothers Richard and Jack Fitzwarren through the violent political and religious changes of mid-sixteenth-century England. The sequence begins with the Seymour scandal surrounding the young Princess Elizabeth, moves…
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Non Fiction
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