Sir Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy

Lord Edward Seymour ( 1528 – 2 May 1593), knight, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, was Sheriff of Devon in 1583. He was knighted by his father the Duke of Somerset on the battlefield of Pinkie on 10 September 1547. Biography Lord Edward Seymour was the second son of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500 – 1552) by his first wife Catherine Fillol. The paternity of Catherine's two sons was questioned by her husband after it was alleged that she had had an affair. This resulted in both her sons being excluded in 1540 from their inheritances and their claims to their father's dignities in favour of his children by his second wife, Ann Stanhope; her eldest son succeeding his father as Duke of Somerset. In June 1553 he received the manor of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, including Berry Pomeroy Castle. Seymour married Margaret Walshe, a daughter and co-heiress of John Walshe (c. 1517 – 1572) of Cathanger, Fivehead, Somerset, Justice of the Common Pleas in 1563, MP. by whom he had one son, Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet (d. 1613).