[MamaB]

Someone in my FTM had an ancestor named Sir Edward Seymour and he was beheaded by King Henry V111 at the Tower of London. An interesting side note. Sir Edward married Ann Stanhope. In the Stanhope family was a child named Saunchia whose parents made her marriage arrangement when she was 7 years old. Or this is a story I found on the Internet.

[Cicero]

The Seymours were among the competitors who were trying to work their way into the royal family. Lady Jane Seymour was their candidate to accomplish it.

I feel more regret about the Earl of Surrey, who was a fine poet. But the Seymours poisoned the King’s mind against him, and he was beheaded along with his father.

One of his best poems was written while he was imprisoned at Windsor Castle awaiting execution, the place where he had played with the King’s illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, as a youth:

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/prisoned.htm

[snugs]

Does the Stanhope family have any connection with Kent? We have an area in Ashford called Stanhope which I believe is named after a person just wondered if there is an historic link to the area?