Mary Seymour (Blooming Roses)

Mary Seymour (30 August 1548 - 2 April 1585) was the daughter of Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley and Catherine Parr, the sixth queen of Henry VIII. Her mother died days after her birth and her father was executed a year later. She was then taken into the household of Katherine Willoughby as a destitute orphan. It was clear that the Duchess of Suffolk resented the responsibility and when Isabella of Cleves became queen in 1555, she took the young Mary into her household. When she was sixteen, negotiations began for her to marry into the powerful Woodville family. A year later, she would marry Edward Woodville and by this marriage would be Marchioness of Warwick, Countess Rivers, Viscountess Lisle, Baroness Lisle, Baroness Bourchier, and Lady Lovayne.