Vice-Admiral Lord Henry Seymour (1540–1588) was an English naval commander and Admiral of the Narrow Seas during the
Elizabethan Age
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.
The younger son of
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (150022 January 1552) (also 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp), also known as Edward Semel, was the eldest surviving brother of Queen Jane Seymour (d. 1537), the third wife of King Henry VI ...
by his second wife
Anne Stanhope
Anne Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (''née'' Weld-Forester; 7 September 1802 – 27 July 1885) was known as a political confidante.
Life
Stanhope was born in 1802, the eldest daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, M. ...
, he married Lady Joan (or Jane) Percy, daughter of
Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland
Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1st Baron Percy, KG (152822 August 1572), led the Rising of the North and was executed for treason. He was later beatified by the Catholic Church.
Early life
Percy was the eldest son of Sir Thomas ...
.
In 1588, he was appointed
Admiral of the Narrow Seas
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and took command of
HMS ''Rainbow'' and the Squadron of ships that took part in the
Battle of Gravelines against the
Spanish Armada
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in 1588.
Controlling the seas off
Dunkirk
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') near
Calais
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on 6 August, adding about a third to the total size.
Ancestry
References
The "Invincible" Armada
Notes
1540 births
1588 deaths
Royal Navy vice admirals
Younger sons of dukes
16th-century Royal Navy personnel
English people of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
People from South Hams (district)
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