Biography of Charles Seymour 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge 1621-1665

In 1613 [his father] Francis Seymour 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (age 23) and [his mother] Frances Prynne were married.

Around 1621 Charles Seymour 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge was born to [his father] Francis Seymour 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (age 31) and [his mother] Frances Prynne.

On 4th August 1632 Charles Seymour 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (age 11) and Mary Smith (age 11) were married. They had one son and two daughters

In 1635 [his father] Francis Seymour 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (age 45) and [his step-mother] Catherine Lee Baroness Seymour Trowbridge were married.

In 1641 [his father] Francis Seymour 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (age 51) was created 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge. [his step-mother] Catherine Lee Baroness Seymour Trowbridge by marriage Baroness Seymour of Trowbridge.

In or before 1653 [his daughter] Frances Seymour was born to Charles Seymour 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (age 31) and [his wife] Mary Smith (age 31). She married 5th April 1665 George Hungerford.

In 1653 [his wife] Mary Smith (age 32) died.

In 1654 Charles Seymour 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (age 33) and Eizabeth Alington 2nd Baroness Seymour Trowbridge (age 18) were married. She by marriage Baroness Seymour of Trowbridge. They had five sons and two daughters. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

On 17th January 1658 [his son] Francis Seymour 5th Duke of Somerset was born to Charles Seymour 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (age 37) and [his wife] Eizabeth Alington 2nd Baroness Seymour Trowbridge (age 22).

In 1659 [his daughter] Honora Seymour was born to Charles Seymour 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (age 38) and [his wife] Eizabeth Alington 2nd Baroness Seymour Trowbridge (age 23). She married 10th February 1676 her fifth cousin once removed Charles Gerard 3rd Baronet, son of Francis Gerard 2nd Baronet and Isabel Cheeke, and had issue.

On 12th August 1662 [his son] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset was born to Charles Seymour 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (age 41) and [his wife] Eizabeth Alington 2nd Baroness Seymour Trowbridge (age 26). He married (1) 30th May 1682 his fifth cousin once removed Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset, daughter of Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland and Elizabeth Wriothesley Countess Northumberland, and had issue (2) 4th February 1725 Charlotte Finch Duchess Somerset, daughter of Daniel Finch 2nd Earl Nottingham 7th Earl Winchilsea and Anne Hatton Countess Nottingham and Winchelsea, and had issue.

On 12th July 1664 [his father] Francis Seymour 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (age 74) died. He was buried in the Chanel of St Mary's Church, Great Bedwyn [Map]. His son Charles (age 43) succeeded 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge.

On 5th April 1665 [his son-in-law] George Hungerford (age 28) and [his daughter] Frances Seymour (age 12) were married.

In 1691 [his former wife] Eizabeth Alington 2nd Baroness Seymour Trowbridge (age 55) died.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1857 V4 Pages 307-363. The first person who examined it with attention was John Aubrey, whose memory will long be preserved by his graphic description of persons and things connected with his native county, Wiltshire. As he was only in his 23rd year when he made his discovery of Abury, and as the work in which he has preserved his early reminiscences of it (the "Monumenta Britannica" now in the Bodleian Library), though often partially quoted by various writers, has never yet been fully published; it may not be amiss to take the present opportunity of presenting to the reader the entire passages relating to this place¹:—

"I was inclin'd by my Genius from my childhood to the love of antiquities: and my Fate dropt me in a countrey most suitable for such enquiries.

"Salisbury-plaines, and Stonehenge I had known from eight years old: but, I never saw the Countrey about Marleboruogh, till Christmas 1648: being then invited to the Lord Francis Seymour's, by the Honorable Mr. Charles Seymour², with whom I had the honor to be intimately acquainted, and whose Friendship I ought to mention with a profound respect to his memorie.