first wife in favour of the children of Anne Stanhope. By Anne, he had ten children: Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp of Hache (12 October 15371539), known by the courtesy title of one of his father's subsidiary titles. He died as a two-year-old infant and predeceased his father. Lady Anne Seymour (1538–1588), who married twice: firstly to John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick; secondly to Sir Edward Unton, MP, by whom she had children. Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (22 May 15391621), in 1559 created Earl of Hertford and Baron Beauchamp of Hatch by Queen Elizabeth I, the half-sister of King Edward VI. He married three times: firstly in November 1560, Lady Catherine Grey, by whom he had two sons; secondly in 1582 to Frances Howard, daughter of Baron Howard of Effingham; thirdly in 1601 to Frances Prannell. Lord Henry Seymour (1540–?), married Lady Joan Percy, daughter of Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland Lady Margaret Seymour (born 1540), a noted author Lady Jane Seymour (1541–1561), Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth I, also a noted author Lady Catherine Seymour Lady Mary Seymour (born 1542), who married twice: Firstly to Andrew Rogers (died c. 1599), MP, of Bryanstone, Dorset. They had no children. Secondly to Sir Henry Peyton Lord Edward Seymour (1548–1574), died unmarried and childless Lady Elizabeth Seymour (1552 – 3 June 1602), who married Sir Richard Knightley, of Fawsley, Northamptonshire. Her monument with effigy survives in All Saints church, Norton, Northamptonshire. The male line of Edward Seymour and Anne Stanhope died out with the seventh Duke of Somerset in 1750, when the descendants of Edward Seymour by his first wife, Catherine Fillol, inherited the Somerset dukedom in accordance with the Private Act of 1541. However, the female line continued, and Queen Elizabeth II was descended from Somerset through his grandchild by Catherine Grey. In popular culture Books Edward Seymour appears in The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain. Edward Seymour is the main character in The Path To Somerset by Janet Wertman, which depicts Edward's rise to power and rivalry with Stephen Gardiner. Television Laurence Naismith portrayed Edward Seymour in the 1962 Disneyland TV film The Prince and the Pauper. Daniel Moynihan portrayed Edward Seymour in the 1970 BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Michael Brill portrayed Edward Seymour in the 1969 musical film The Adventures of the Prince and the Pauper. Bernard Kay portrayed