page_title: Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford
section_title: Death and burial
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford / Death and burial
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument in Salisbury Cathedral to Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (1539-1621) and his wife Lady Catherine Grey (d.1586) (sister of Lady Jane Grey "Nine Days Queen"). For inscription see Harris, James, Copies of the Epitaphs in Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, 1825, pp.35-40[1]
context_page_description: Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Baron Beauchamp, KG, of Wulfhall and Tottenham House in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset, of Netley Abbey, Hampshire, and of Hertford House, Cannon Row in Westminster, is most noted for incurring the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth I by more than one clandestine marriage.
context_section_description: He died in 1621 at Netley Abbey and was buried in the Seymour Chapel of Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire, where survives his elaborate monument in white alabaster with effigies of a himself and his first wife recumbent, he dressed in armour, and she in robes, both praying; at their head and feet is a kneeling effigy of each of their sons, fully dressed in armour, under four Corinthian marble columns. On the top are several figures and pyramids. Around the central inscribed tablet are impaled heraldic escutcheons showing the marriages of their respective Seymour and Grey ancestors. The Latin inscriptions are as follows:
  Mutate melior. Qui fecit Angelos, Vos Spiritus et Ministros suos Flammas ignis. Procede, Figura, In ministerium, Misit propter eos qui haereditatem capient Salutis. ("Repent, he has made his angels spirits, and his Ministers, flames of Fire. Proceed, Go into the Ministry, to minister unto them, who shall be Heirs of Salvation")
  Lower under the arch, on a black marble tablet, in gold capitals, is this inscription : 
  M(emoriae) S(acrum) Edvardo, Hertfordiae Comiti, Baroni de Belcampo Illustrissimi principis Edvardi Ducis Somersetensis Com(itis) Hertfordiae, Procom(itis) Bellicamp(o) & Baronis de Sancto Mauro, Garteriani Ordinis Equestris celeberrimi sodalis, Edvardi VI Reg(is) Avunculi, Gubernatoris ejusque, Regnorum Dominiorum ac subditorum Protectoris dignissimi Exercitiumque Praefecti, et locum tenentis, generalis Thesaurarii, et Comitis, Marescalli Angliae, Gubernatoris & Capitanei Insularum de Garnsey & Jersey, et ex Anna uxore splendidiss(ima) orta natalibus et per antiquis Filio et Haeredi Nec non-conjugi suae chariss(imae) dilectiss(imae) Catherinae Henrici & Franciscae Grai D. D. Suffolc, filiae et haeredi Caroli Brandon D(ucis) Suffolc, ex Maria Hen(rici) VIII Sorore & Galliar Regin Dotata pronepti et Hen. VII. Abnepti Incomparabili Conjugum pari. Qui alternantis fortunae vices subinde experti, Hic tandem qua vixere concordiae requiescunt simul. Illa Singularis exempli probitatis Pietatis formae ac fidei femina Non saeculi sui, sed omnis aevi, optima, clarissima. XXII Janua Anno (MCCCCLXIII) pie ac placide expiravit. llle Vir Integerrimus, nobilitatis norma Morum ac displinae priscae Conservator, Eloquio Prudentia, lnnocentia. Gravitate, Nec minus virtute & doctrina quam generis splendore nobilis, Ut qui una cum Edvardo Principe Reg(is) Hen(rici) fil(io) in studiis adoleverat Religionis acerrimus vindex, Recti ac justi perpetuus assertor. In administrandis provinciis sibi creditis summae fidei ac auctoritatis Amplissima ad Archi(ducem) D. D. pro Jac(obo) M(agnae) B(ritanniae) Reg(e) opt. legatione functus Domi, forisque, munificentia magnus Et ut opibus excellens, sic animo quam divitiis locupletior. Nec unquam potentia sua, ad impotentiam in Clientes usus Plenus Honoribus, Plenus annis Octogessimum suumn & tertium agens An. (MDCXXI). Filios ex Heroina suscipit duos: ("Sacred to the memory of Edward, Earl of Hertford, Lord Beauchamp, son and heir of the most illustrious Prince Edward Duke of Somerset, Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp, Baron Seymour, Knight Companion of the Honorable Order of the Garter, Uncle and Governor of King Edward VI, Lord Protector of his home and foreign Dominions; Commander-in-Chief of his armies, and Lieutenant; General of the Treasury, and Earl Marshal of England, Governor of the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, by Anne his wife descended from an ancient and noble family. And of Catherine his dearly beloved wife, daughter and heiress of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, by his Duchess Frances, daughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk and Mary his wife, sister to King Henry VIII, and Queen of France, so that she was endowed as the great niece of Henry VIII, and great granddaughter of Henry VII. Equal to her birth was her conduct as a wife; they often experienced the changes of fortune, here at length they rest together in the same harmony in which they lived. She was a woman of extraordinary beauty and constancy, of exemplary goodness and piety, and not only of her own,
caption: Monument in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, to Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford
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