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Seymour, Edward (1529 - 1593)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1529
Death Date: 1593-05-02

Notes

Disinherited by act of parliament 1540--1; corrupted in blood by father's attainder 12 April 1552; attainder reversed and restored in blood 29 March 1554

Parents

Primary Title

  • Lord Seymour

Titles

  • Lord Seymour
    Assumed: 1529
    Vacated: 1593-05-02
  • Knight
    Assumed: 1547-09-10
    Vacated: 1593-05-02

Details of Offices

Began Ended
JP, Somerset 1561/2
JP, Somerset 1564
Sheriff, Devon 1583 -11 -25 1584 -11 -19
JP, Devon 1591

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Berry Pomeroy, Devon
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1553-06
    Divested: 1593-05
    Patrimony, but officially granted on this date; residence from at least 1575

Lands

  • Devon: Berry Pomeroy Lordship and Manor
    Acquired: 1553-06-10
    Divested: 1593-05-02
    Granted
  • Devon: Totnes Castle
    Acquired: 1591
    Purchased
  • Somerset
    Acquired: 1552-09-06
    Granted
  • Wiltshire: Maiden Bradley Manor
    Acquired: 1552-12-19
    Inherited from elder brother John

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Lord Seymour's Bearwards

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Seymour's Bearwards Seymour, Edward (1529 - 1593) Performing Animals 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Berry Pomeroy Devon Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward VI [1547–53]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1924--9
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I [1558–78]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1939--82
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Philip and Mary [1553–8]. 4 vols. London: HMSO, 1937--9
  • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth I and James I [1547--1625]. 12 vols. London: HMSO, 1856--72
  • 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
  • Hasler, P.W. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1558–1603. 3 vols. London: HMSO, 1981
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Powley, Edward B. The House of De La Pomerai. London: UP of Liverpool--Hodder & Stoughton, 1944
  • Powley, Edward B. 'Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon.'. Country Life 90 (1941): 1122--5.
  • Shaw, William Arthur. The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. 2 vols. London: Sherratt & Hughes, 1906