Margery Wentworth

Margery Wentworth, also known as Margaret Wentworth (c. 1478 – c. October 1550) was the wife of Sir John Seymour and the mother of Queen Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII of England. She was the grandmother of King Edward VI of England.

Family

Margery was born in about 1478, the daughter of Sir Henry Wentworth and Anne Say, daughter of Sir John Say and Elizabeth Cheney. Margery's first cousins, Elizabeth and Edmund Howard, were parents to two other of Henry VIII's wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, respectively.^[1]

Early Life

She was given a place in the household of her aunt, Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey, where she met the poet John Skelton, whose muse she became^[2]. She was considered a great beauty by Skelton and others. In poetry dedicated to her he praised her demeanor.

Marriage and children

She married before 1500 Sir John Seymour of Wulfhall in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, by whom she had a total of nine children:

Apart from Queen Jane, her daughters included Elizabeth Seymour, Marchioness of Winchester, who married Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, son of Henry VIII's minister, Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex and later William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester. Her sons included the MP Henry Seymour, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, who was Lord Protector of England from 1547 to 1549, and Lord Thomas Seymour, the fourth husband of Queen Catherine Parr].

Death

She died in about October 1550.

References

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