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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.
Seymour is a prominent figure in novels about Catherine Parr and Elizabeth’s youth. He appears in Elizabeth Fremantle’s Queen’s Gambit, Alison Weir’s Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife and The Lady Elizabeth, where his charm, ambition and behaviour toward Elizabeth are central sources of tension.
In non-fiction, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley is discussed in Linda Porter’s Katherine the Queen. Linda Porter’s Katherine the Queen approaches the subject through court politics and dynastic power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life.
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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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