What was Edward Seymour's mother's name?
Margaret Welles
Jane Seymour
Margaret Seymour
Margaret Wentworth
Answer
Margaret Wentworth was the mother of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. She was the daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth and his wife Anne Boleyn, the younger sister of King Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn. Margaret was married to Sir John Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, and they had three sons: Edward, Thomas and Henry.
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