"hardy, wise and liberal ... fierce in courage, courtly in fashion, in personage stately, in voice magnificent, but somewhat empty of matter". In popular culture In the 1953 film Young Bess (based on the novel of the same title by Margaret Irwin), Stewart Granger was cast as Seymour. The plot, largely a romance between him and Princess Elizabeth (played by 24-year-old Jean Simmons), had little historical accuracy. In the 2007 Showtime television show The Tudors, Andrew McNair portrays Seymour. He appears in seasons three and four. He is a character in the C. J. Sansom novel Revelation, featuring Sansom's fictional lawyer/detective Matthew Shardlake. He is portrayed as a hot-headed military man, with designs on Catherine Parr, in the months before the latter's marriage to Henry VIII. He reappears as a secondary character in the next two novels in the series, Heartstone and Lamentation. Norah Lofts, in her biography of Walter Raleigh Here Was a Man, suggests that Elizabeth was attracted to Raleigh because he reminded her of Seymour. In the Starz 2022 series Becoming Elizabeth, Tom Cullen plays Seymour. Notes References Attribution Further reading Bernard, G. W. "The Downfall of Thomas Seymour." in The Tudor Nobility, ed. G.W. Bernard (Manchester University Press, 1992): 217–28. External links Sir Thomas Seymour, Lord Seymour of Sudeley Family tree Thomas 16th-century English nobility 16th-century English politicians 16th-century Royal Navy personnel 1500s births 1549 deaths Year of birth uncertain Barons in the Peerage of England Peers of England created by Edward VI English MPs 1545–1547 Knights of the Garter Lord High Admirals of England Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports Executed military leaders People convicted under a bill of attainder Executions at the Tower of London People executed by Tudor England by decapitation People executed for treason against England People executed under Edward VI of England Executed people from Gloucestershire People from Winchcombe English politicians convicted of crimes Child sexual abuse in England Husbands of Catherine Parr