SEYMOUR, Robert (c.1480-1545), of Ivy Church, Wilts. and London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1480, 3rd s. of John Seymour of Wolf Hall, Wilts. by Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Darrell of Littlecote, Wilts.; bro. of Sir John.Date of birth estimated from eldest brother’s. H. St. Maur, Annals of the Seymours, ped. opp. p. 1.

Offices Held

Member, council of Tournai 1517; capt. Crist 1522; sewer by 1526; steward, lordship and hundred of Amesbury, lordship of Winterbourne Earls and hundred of Alderbury, Wilts. 1526–?d.; sheriff, Anglesey 1527 – 34; gent. usher, the chamber by 1528; warden, Melchet forest, Wilts. 1530 – 31; capt. Newnham Bridge 1533–9.Lansd. 1(62), f. 201; Strype, Eccles. Memorials, i. 11; VCH Hants, iv, 541; Egerton 2604; LP Hen. VIII, iv, v, xiv, xvi; P. T. J. Morgan, ‘The govt. of Calais, 1485–1558’ (Oxf. Univ. D. Phil. thesis, 1966), 297.

Parlimentarian

SEYMOUR, Robert (c.1480-1545), of Ivy Church, Wilts. and London.

Main residences: Ivy Church, Wilts.; London.

Author

R.L.D.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

SEYMOUR, Robert (c.1480-at least 1545)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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