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• Hij is geboren op 13 augustus 1662 in Preshute, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England.Bron 7

  Let op: Was ouder dan 65 jaar (68) toen kind (Charlotte Seymour) werd geboren (21 september 1730).

• (Historical Nickname) .

  The Proud Duke

• (Event 1) : 6th Duke of Somerset.Bron 7
• Hij is overleden op 2 december 1748 in Petworth, Sussex, hij was toen 86 jaar oud.Bron 7
• Hij is begraven op 26 december 1748 in Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, Great Britain.
• Een kind van Charles Seymour en Elizabeth Allington
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Gezin van Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Percy.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 30 mei 1682 te Montagu House, London, Middlesex, England, hij was toen 19 jaar oud.Bron 7

Kind(eren):

1. Charles Seymour Percy  1682-1683
2. Algernon Seymour  1684-1750 
3. Earl Charles Seymour-Percy of Herford  1682-????
4. Elizabeth Seymour  1685-1734
5. Catherine Seymour  1697-1731 
6. Anne Seymour  1690-1722
7. Percy Seymour  1686-1721
8. Charles Seymour  1688-1710
9. Frances Percy  ????-1720

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Charlotte Finch.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 4 februari 1725 te Bloomsbury Square, London, hij was toen 62 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Frances Seymour  1728-1761 
2. Charlotte Seymour  1730-1805 

Notities over Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset

"The Proud Duke"  6th Duke of Somerset.

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Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (13 August 1662?December 2, 1748), sometimes referred to as the "Proud Duke". The son of Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, and Elizabeth Bennett, he succeeded his brother Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset, to the dukedom when the latter was shot in 1678. He also inherited the title of Baron Seymour of Trowbridge.

Charles was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; and in 1682 he married a great heiress, Elizabeth Percy, daughter of Joceline Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, who brought him immense estates, including Alnwick Castle, Petworth House, Syon House and Northumberland House in London.

In 1683, Somerset received an appointment in the king?s household, and two years later a colonelcy of dragoons; but at the revolution he bore arms for the Prince of Orange. Having befriended Princess Anne in 1692, he became a favourite of hers after her accession to the throne, receiving the post of Master of the Horse in 1702. Finding himself neglected by Marlborough, he made friends with the Tories, and succeeded in retaining the queen?s confidence, while his wife replaced the Duchess of Marlborough as Mistress of the Robes in 1711.

In the memorable crisis when Anne was at the point of death, Somerset acted with Argyll, Shrewsbury and other Whig nobles who, by insisting on their right to be present in the Privy Council, secured the Hanoverian succession to the Crown.

He retained the office of Master of the Horse under George I till 1716, when he was dismissed and retired into private life; he died at Petworth on 2 December 1748. The duke?s first wife having died in 1722, he married secondly, in 1726, Charlotte, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Nottingham. He was a remarkably handsome man, and inordinately fond of taking a conspicuous part in court ceremonial; his vanity, which earned him the sobriquet of "the proud duke," was a byword among his contemporaries and was the subject of numerous anecdotes; Macaulay?s description of him as "a man in whom the pride of birth and rank amounted almost to a disease," is well known.

The Duke was a founding governor of the Foundling Hospital in London, 1739 ? the country's first and only children's home for foundlings (abandoned children).

Issue
Charles and Lady Elizabeth had four children:

Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (11 November 1684 ? 7 February 1749)
Lady Elizabeth Seymour (1685 ? 2 April 1734)
Lady Catherine Seymour (1693 ? 9 April 1731)
Lady Anne Seymour (1709 ? 27 November 1722)
On February 4, 1725, he married, Lady Charlotte Finch (1711?1773), daughter of Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchilsea and had two children:

Lady Frances Seymour (18 July 1728 ? 25 January 1761), married John Manners, Marquess of Granby
Lady Charlotte Seymour (21 September 1730 ? 15 February 1805), married Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford and had issue.
Political offices
Preceded by
The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery Lord President of the Council
1702 Succeeded by
The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery
Preceded by
In Commission Master of the Horse
1702?1712 Succeeded by
In Commission
Preceded by
In Commission Master of the Horse
1714?1715 Succeeded by
In Commission
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Earl of Sheffield Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire
1682?1687 Succeeded by
The Earl of Sheffield
Custos Rotulorum of the East Riding of Yorkshire
1682?1687
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Francis Seymour Duke of Somerset
1678?1748 Succeeded by
Algernon Seymour

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