biography
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Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of
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known as Protector Somerset
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| (c.1506–52)
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| biography:
| English soldier and statesman, the brother of Jane Seymour. He enjoyed high office under his brother-in-law, Henry VIII, and led the invading English army that devastated S Scotland and Edinburgh in the ‘Rough Wooing’ of 1543–4. On Henry's death in 1547 he was named Protector of England during the minority of Edward VI. He defeated a Scottish army at Pinkie (1547), and furthered the Reformation with the first Book of Common Prayer (1549). In 1549 he had his younger brother, Thomas Seymour, beheaded for attempting to marry the future Queen Elizabeth, and soon he himself was indicted for over-ambition, deposed by John Dudley, Earl of Warwick (1549), and eventually executed. |
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