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Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset

1506 - 1552

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Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp (1500 – 22 January 1552), also known as Edward Semel, was an English nobleman and politician who served as Lord Protector of England from 1547 to 1549 during the minority of his nephew King Edward VI. He was the eldest surviving brother of Queen Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII. Seymour grew rapidly in favour with Henry VIII following Jane's marriage to the king in 1536, and was subsequently made Earl of Hertford. On Henry's death in 1547, he was appointed protector by the Regency Council on the accession of the nine-year-old Edward VI. Rewarded with the title Duke of Somerset, Seymour became the effective ruler of England. Somerset continued Henry's military campaign against the Scots and achieved a sound victory at the Battle of Pinkie, but ultimately he was unable to maintain his position in Scotland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset has received more than 1,689,858 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset is the 4,817th most popular politician (up from 5,123rd in 2019), the 1,026th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,137th in 2019) and the 175th most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset ranks 4,817 out of 15,577Before him are Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, Choe Yong-rim, Nicu Ceaușescu, Karl Nesselrode, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, and Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia. After him are Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Vologases V, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Slavko Kvaternik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1506, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset ranks 4Before him are Francis Xavier, Louis II of Hungary, and Hwang Jini. After him are Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Peter Faber, Juliana of Stolberg, Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja, and George Buchanan. Among people deceased in 1552, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset ranks 7Before him are Francis Xavier, Katharina von Bora, Basil Fool for Christ, Petrus Apianus, Paolo Giovio, and Sebastian Münster. After him are Andreas Osiander, Olaus Petri, Antonio de Mendoza, Guru Angad, Pierre Attaingnant, and Qiu Ying.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset ranks 1,026 out of 7,765Before him are Gary Brooker (1945), John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792), Lord Randolph Churchill (1849), J. Michael Kosterlitz (1943), Cynthia Lennon (1939), and Samuel Bellamy (1689). After him are Colin McRae (1968), Peter Mansfield (1933), William Whewell (1794), Edith Cavell (1865), Henry Briggs (1561), and Charles Lightoller (1874).

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