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Seymour, Thomas (1508 - 1548/9)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1508 (possibly born ca. 1509)
Death Date: 1549-03-20

Notes

Arrested and imprisoned in the Tower 17 Jan. 1548/9; attainted 5 March 1548/9; beheaded

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Parr, Catherine (1512 - 1548)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1547-6
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Titles

  • 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley
    Assumed: 1546/7-02-16
    Vacated: 1548/9-03-05 (date attainted)
  • Knight
    Assumed: 1537-10-18
    Vacated: 1548/9-03-05 (date attainted)
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1546/7-02-17 (date nominated; installed 23 May 1547)
    Vacated: 1548/9-03-05 (date attainted)

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Bailiff, Gloucestershire
Master Forester, Middlesex 1532 -8 -9 1548/9 -03 -20 Held office until death
Master Steward, Denbighshire 1537 Held jointly
Master Steward, various manors, Marches of Wales 1537 Held jointly
Keeper, Farleigh Hungerford Castle 1543/4 -3 -11
Admiral of the Fleet, England 1544 -10
Master of the Ordnance, England 1544 -4 -18 1547 -03 -26 date relinquished office For life
Steward, Duchy of Lancaster 1544 -5 -28 1548/9 -03 -20 Held office until death
Commissioner of Array, Kent 1545
Deputy Warden, Kent 1545 -4 -27 Cinque Ports also in Sussex. Acting for Sir Thomas Cheyney during his illness
Keeper, Middlesex 1545 -4 -21
MP, Wiltshire 1545
Commissioner of Musters, Wiltshire 1545/6
Lord High Admiral, England 1546/7 -2 -17 1548/9 -01 -17 date arrested and imprisioned For life
Privy Councillor, England 1546/7 -1 -23 1546/7 -01 -28
Privy Councillor, England 1546/7 -2 -2 1548/9 -01 -18
Capt & Lieut-gen, South of Trent 1547 -8 During the absence of Protector Somerset in Scotland
Custodian of the King, England 1547 -8 During the absence of Protector Somerset in Scotland
JP, Hertfordshire 1547
JP, Kent 1547
JP, Middlesex 1547
JP, Shropshire 1547
JP, Sussex 1547
JP, Wiltshire 1547
JP, Worcestershire 1547
JP, Herefordshire 1547
JP, Hampshire 1547
JP, Gloucestershire 1547
JP, Essex 1547
JP, Devon 1547
JP, Berkshire 1547

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Seymour Place, London (city-county)
    near Templr Bar, Midd.
  • Bromham, Wiltshire
  • Seymour Place, Middlesex
    Acquired: 1545-03
    Granted. Near Temple Bar; formerly Hampton Place
  • Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1547
    Granted

Lands

  • Berkshire: Coleshill Manor
    Acquired: 1539
    Also grants in March 1538 & 19 Aug. 1547
  • Cheshire
  • Essex: Coggeshall Abbey Lands
    Acquired: 1539
    Grants also in March 1538
  • Gloucestershire: Sudeley Lordship & Manor
    Acquired: 1547-08-19
    Granted
  • Hampshire: Romsey Abbey Lands
    Acquired: 1539
    Grants also in March 1538
  • Sussex: Bramber Barony & Borough, Horsham & New Shoreham Borough & Manor & Lewes Borough
    Acquired: 1547-08-19
    Granted
  • Wiltshire
    Acquired: 1547-08-19
    Granted

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Lyme Regis (Unknown), Lyme Regis, Dorset Lord Admiral's Players
Performance - New Romney (Unknown), New Romney, Kent Lord Admiral's Players
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Lord Admiral's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Lord Admiral's Players
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Lord Admiral's Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Admiral's Players Seymour, Thomas (1508 - 1549) Players 1
Lord Admiral's Players Seymour, Thomas (1508 - 1549) Players 1
Lord Admiral's Players Seymour, Thomas (1508 - 1549) Players 1
Lord Admiral's Players Seymour, Thomas (1508 - 1549) Players 1
Lord Admiral's Players Seymour, Thomas (1508 - 1549) Players 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Sudeley Castle Gloucestershire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

View a list of abbreviations.

  • Bindoff, S.T. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1509–1558. 3 vols. London: Secker & Warburg, 1982
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.