♂Edmund Seymour

Edmund Seymour was an English knight of the early fifteenth century, the holder of manors in Somerset and Leicestershire. He was the nineteenth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Thomas Seymour (died before 1422).

Joan Basset, the daughter and heiress of Andrew Basset of Tickenham, is said to have been the first wife of Sir Edmund Seymour of Chelvey, Migill and Tickenham, in Somerset, and of Welham, in Leicestershire, and the mother of his son and heir apparent, Thomas. Sir Edmund married a second time, to another Joan. Thomas died before 1422, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth, born about 1406. Sir Edmund died in 1422, the year Elizabeth was about sixteen, and Tickenham passed on through heiresses: Elizabeth’s husband, Thomas Berkeley, held it in her right, and her daughter, Cecily Berkeley, brought it to James Ashe.

Notes

Sources

Sir Edmund’s manors, his first marriage and his son are from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edition (2011), vol. 1, p. 175, a compiled genealogy, in the entry for his son’s wife, Margaret Farway. Richardson cites the Gentleman’s Magazine, new series, vol. 3 (1835), pp. 588–594; the Benolte visitation of Somerset (printed 1885), p. 108; Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, vol. 16 (1920), pp. 281–285; the Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 23 (2004), p. 57; and Foundations 2(6) (2008), pp. 390–422. The descent of Tickenham through Elizabeth and Cecily is on the same page.

His death and second wife

Richardson gives no entry of his own for Sir Edmund. His death in 1422 comes from a note on the same page, which calls him “Sir Edmund Seymour (died 1422), of Chelvey and Tickenham,” and his second wife, Joan, from the same note, which corrects Foundations (2008) for making Thomas her son rather than Joan Basset’s.

His son’s name

Richardson names the son “Thomas (or John, Edmund) Seymour.” A Furneaux family pedigree dated 1423/44 calls him “Johanni Seymour, filio et heredi Edmundi Seymour militis” (John Seymour, son and heir of Sir Edmund Seymour, knight).