Original: Edward Seymour , 1st Duke of Somerset ( c. 1506 22 January 1552 ) was Lord Protector of England in the period between the death of Henry VIII in 1547 and his own indictment in 1549 .
Simplified: Edward Seymour , 1st Duke of Somerset ( c. 1506 -- 22 January , 1552 ) was an English peer and politician .