On This Day (16 April) in 1587, Anne Stanhope, Dowager Duchess of Somerset, died at Hanworth Palace, Middlesex.

On This Day (06 April) in 1621, Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, died at his Hampshire home, Netley Abbey, aged 81.

On 17 January 1549, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, and Lord High Admiral, was arrested at his London home of Seymour Place, on The Strand, on charges of treason.

On This Day (12 Oct) in 1537, the future King Edward VI was born at Hampton Court Palace, the only child of Jane Seymour.

Anne Askew's name has long been associated with martyrdom in Henry VIII's Protestant England. However, her early years were not necessarily indicative of a woman who would grow up to be at the forefront of rebellion and heresy in the religiously turbulent 1540s.

Anne Askew was a 25yo writer, poet and preacher, originally from Lincolnshire, whose resolute Reformist religious views...

Anne Seymour (born c.1538) was the eldest daughter of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and his second wife Anne Stanhope.

In March 1550, a poem was composed, dedicated to the life and achievements of the recently deceased Marguerite of Navarre - The Hecatodistichon.