father death_date mother birth_date article_title name
edward seymour , 1st duke of somerset c. 1561 anne stanhope c. 1541 lady jane seymour
 lady jane seymour
lady jane seymour

lady jane seymour -lrb- c. 1541 -- 19 march 1561 -rrb- was an influential writer during the sixteenth century in england , along with her sisters , lady margaret seymour and anne seymour , countess of warwick .
their brother was edward seymour , 1st earl of hertford .
they were the children of edward seymour , 1st duke of somerset , who from 1547 was the lord protector of england after the death of king henry viii and during the minority of jane 's first cousin , king edward vi .
she was baptised 22 february 1541 , and her godparents were thomas cromwell -lrb- the king 's chief minister -rrb- , lady mary -lrb- the king 's daughter , at the time declared illegitimate but later to become queen -rrb- and katherine howard , the fifth wife of henry viii , and queen at the time .
jane was thus the niece of henry viii 's third wife , queen jane , whom she was probably named after .
she was the sole witness to the secret marriage of her brother edward to lady catherine grey -lrb- a potential heir to queen elizabeth i -rrb- in 1560 .
she died a year later , aged 20 , probably of tuberculosis .
the seymour sisters tended to work together , with their most famous work being a collection of 103 latin distichs , `` hecatodistichon '' , for the tomb of margaret of valois , queen of navarre and also an author , which was published in 1550 .
