Sir Henry Wentworth of Nettlestead, Suffolk, and his wife Anne Say. Anne was the daughter of Sir John Say and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Lawrence Cheney (or Cheyne) ( – 1461) and Elizabeth Cokayne. Margery Wentworth's grandfather, Sir Philip Wentworth, had married Mary, daughter of John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford, whose mother Elizabeth was daughter of Henry Percy (Hotspur) and great-great-granddaughter of Edward III. Sir John Seymour (1474 – 21 December 1536), of Wulfhall, Savernake, Wiltshire, and Margery Wentworth ( – ) were married 22 October 1494. The couple had ten children: John Seymour (died 15 July 1510) Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of Edward VI (/1506 – 22 January 1552) married firstly Catherine, daughter of Sir William Fillol, and secondly Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope. Sir Henry Seymour (1503 – 1578) married Barbara, daughter of Morgan Wolfe Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley ( – 20 March 1549) married Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII John Seymour (died young) Anthony Seymour (died ) Jane Seymour, queen Consort of Henry VIII ( – 24 October 1537) Margery Seymour (died ) Elizabeth Seymour ( – 19 Mar 1568) Dorothy Seymour ( – 4 January 1574) married firstly, Sir Clement Smith ( – 26 August 1552) of Little Baddow, Essex and secondly, Thomas Leventhorpe of Shingle Hall, Hertfordshire. Of the ten children born at Wulfhall, six survived:– three sons: Edward, Henry and Thomas, and three daughters: Jane, Elizabeth and Dorothy. Edward, Thomas, Jane and Elizabeth were courtiers. Edward and Thomas were both executed during the reign of Edward VI. Henry Seymour, who did not share his brothers' ambition, escaped their fate. Early life Elizabeth Seymour was known to have been born by 1518, probably at Wulfhall. Her letters to Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII show that she was both intelligent and astute. She was also skilled in needlework. She played a brief but prominent role in the 1530s and 1540s, during the rise to power of her father-in-law, Thomas Cromwell, and her brother, Edward. Elizabeth and her sister, Jane, served in the household of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, their second cousin. She married three times and by her first two marriages had seven children. She is best known as the wife of Gregory Cromwell. First marriage By July 1530, Elizabeth had married, as his second wife, Sir Anthony Ughtred, of Kexby, Yorkshire. The