The Henry & Sarah Ballinger Chiles Family

The Henry & Sarah Ballinger Chiles Family

Sir William Selby
      Sex: M
Individual Information
          Birth: Unknown
    Christening: 
          Death: Unknown
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Parents
         Father: Alexander Selby of Biddleston Northumberland (      -      ) 
         Mother: Joan Widdrington (      -      ) 
Spouses and Children
1. *Ellen Haggerston (Unknown - Unknown)
       Marriage: Unknown
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Charles Selby (      -      )
Hubert I, Count of Senlis Senlis
      Sex: M
Individual Information
          Birth: 850
    Christening: 
          Death: 900
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Parents
         Father: Pepin II of Peronne Seigneur Count of Peronne (0817-After 0840) 
         Mother: 
Spouses and Children
1. *Unknown
       Children:
                1. Beatrice de Vermandois (0880-0931)
Notes
General:

Also Count of Vermandois
Acceded: 896

Living
      Sex: F
Parents
         Father: Roy Seymour (      -      ) 
         Mother: Laura M. Chiles (1883-      ) 
Jane Seymour
      Sex: F
Individual Information
          Birth: 1505 - Wolf Hall, Savernake, Wiltshire, England
    Christening: 
          Death: 24 Oct 1537 - Hampton Court Palace, Richmond, England
         Burial: 12 Nov 1537 - St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England
 Cause of Death: Puerperal Fever
Spouses and Children
1. *King Henry VIII Tudor , King of England (28 Jun 1491 - 28 Jan 1547)
       Marriage: 30 May 1536 - Queen's Closet, Whitehall Palace, London, England
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Edward VI , King of England (1537-1553)
Notes
General:

She died 12 days after her son's birth. Jane's one memorable act in the 17 months she was queen was to effect a reconciliation between Henry and his daughter Mary, whom she had known in her days as maid of honor to Catherine of Aragon. Ten years and 3 wives later, Henry VIII was laid to rest beside her at St. George's Chapel, Windsor.

Queen Jane, Jane Seymour (c. 1508 or 1509 - October 24, 1537) was the third wife of King Henry VIII of England. Before her death, she gave him his only male heir, Edward VI.

Biography
Jane was the daughter of Sir John Seymour of Wiltshire and Margaret Wentworth. Her birth date is problematic; it is usually given as 1509. However, in The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Alison Weir noted that at her funeral 29 women walked in succession. Since it was customary for the attendant company to mark every year of the deceased's life in numbers, Weir moved Jane's birth back by about eighteen months.

After serving as a lady-in-waiting to both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, Henry's first two queens, Jane caught the king's eye. His desire to marry her made him eager to believe the false accusations of adultery against Anne. Henry married Jane on May 30, 1536 only eleven days after Anne's execution, and she quickly became pregnant.

As Queen, Jane was strict and formal. She was close only to her female relations, Anne Stanhope (her brother's wife) and her sister, Elizabeth Seymour. A strict, almost oppressive, atmosphere replaced the glittering social life and extravagance of the Queen's Household, which had been masterminded by Anne Boleyn, in Jane's time. Desperate to appear like a queen, Jane became obsessed with tiny details, such as how many pearls were sewn into each lady's skirt, and she banned the elegant French fashions introduced by Anne Boleyn. Politically, Jane was a conservative, but her only intervention into the realm of government in 1536 ended when the king brutally told her to remember the last queen, who had lost her head because she meddled in politics.

During her pregnancy, Jane developed a craving for quail, which the King ordered for her from Calais and Flanders. She grew incredibly fat and her dresses had to be unlaced as much as possible. Jane went into seclusion in September 1537, and gave birth to a male heir, the future King Edward VI of England on October 12, 1537. However, she contracted puerperal fever and died on October 24, 1537 at Hampton Court Palace. She was buried at Windsor Castle. Upon her tombstone there was for a time the following inscription:

Here lieth a Phoenix, by whose death
Another Phoenix life gave breath:
It is to be lamented much
The world at once ne'er knew too such.

Jane's two ambitious brothers, Thomas and Edward, used her memory to improve their own fortunes. After Henry's death, Thomas married Henry's widow, Catherine Parr, and also had designs on the future Elizabeth I. In the reign of the young King Edward VI, Edward Seymour set himself up as protector and effective ruler of the Kingdom. Both brothers eventually fell from power, and were disgraced and executed.

Jane was widely praised as "the fairest, the discreetest, and the most meritous of all Henry VIII's wives" in the centuries after her death. One historian, however, took serious umbrage to this view in the 19th century. Victorian beauty and much-praised scholar, Agnes Strickland, author of encyclopaedic studies of French, Scottish and English royal women said that the story of "Anne Boleyn's last agonised hours" and Henry VIII's swift remarriage to Jane Seymour "is repulsive enough, but it becomes tenfold more abhorrent when the woman who caused the whole tragedy is loaded with panegyric."

Modern historians, particularly Alison Weir and Lady Antonia Fraser, paint a favorable portrait of a woman of discretion and good-sense--"a strong-minded matriarch in the making," says Weir. Others are not convinced.

Hester W. Chapman and Professor E.W. Ives resurrected Strickland's view of Jane Seymour, and believe she played a crucial and conscious role in the cold-blooded plot to bring Anne Boleyn to the scaffold. Dr. David Starkey and Karen Lindsey are both relatively dismissive of Jane's importance in comparison to Henry's other queens--particularly Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Parr. Joanna Denny, Marie Louise Bruce and Carolly Erickson also refrain from giving overly sympathetic accounts of Jane's life and career.

Medical:

Fever that lasts for more than 24 hours within the first 10 days after a woman has had a baby. Puerperal fever is due to an infection, most often of the placental site within the uterus. If the infection involves the bloodstream, it constitutes puerperal sepsis.

Puerperal fever has gone by a number of different names including childbirth fever, childbed fever and postpartum fever. In Latin a "puerpera" is a woman in childbirth since "puer" means child and "parere" means to give birth. The puerperium is the time immediately after the delivery of a baby.

Mary Seymour
      Sex: F
Individual Information
          Birth: 29 Aug 1548
    Christening: 
          Death: 5 Sep 1548
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: Puerperal Fever
Parents
         Father: Admiral Thomas of Sudley Seymour , Baron of Sudley (1508-1549) 
         Mother: Catherine Parr (1512-1548) 
Notes
General:

Mother died a few days after her birth.
Catherine's only child in four marriages; the child died of puerperal fever.

Roy Seymour
      Sex: M
Individual Information
          Birth: Unknown
    Christening: 
          Death: Unknown
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Spouses and Children
1. *Laura M. Chiles (21 Aug 1883 - Unknown)
       Marriage: 
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                1. Living
Admiral Thomas of Sudley Seymour , Baron of Sudley
      Sex: M
Individual Information
          Birth: 1508
    Christening: 
          Death: 10 Mar 1549 - Tower Hill, London, England
         Burial: in Tower of London, London, England
 Cause of Death: 
Spouses and Children
1. *Catherine Parr (1512 - 5 Sep 1548)
       Marriage: 4 Apr 1547
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Mary Seymour (1548-1548)
Notes
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Acceded: 16 Feb 1546
Baron Seymour of Sudley

Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley (c. 1508 - March 10, 1549), was a son of Sir John Seymour and Margaret Wentworth. He was a younger brother of Jane Seymour, the third Queen consort of King Henry VIII of England.

Thomas Seymour and Catherine Parr became romantically involved after the death of her second husband, but then King Henry took an interest in Catherine, and Seymour had to step aside, as the king sent him on a diplomatic mission. Catherine became Henry's sixth wife. After he died, she married Seymour (brother of Henry's third wife Jane) in unseemly haste. She became pregnant, gave birth to daughter Mary, and died a few days later.

Thomas (the Lord High Admiral) and his brother Edward (the Lord Protector of England) wielded great power in England, through their nephew King Edward VI of England who was still a child when he came to the throne.

Thomas was overly ambitious and wanted to marry his nephew's half-sister Princess Elizabeth, later Elizabeth I of England. His sexual misconduct with her, while she lived with the Seymours, forced her stepmother Catherine to send her away for her own protection. Thomas was eventually executed for over-reaching in the power game, he tried to wrest control of young Edward, the king, from brother Edward and Edward had him executed. One night, he broke into the King's bedchamber, presumably intending to kidnap him. The King's dog sprang up. Thomas shot the dog. The noise brought the guards running. The unfortunate Admiral was seized, arrested and executed a few weeks later.

Catherine's daughter Mary should have been a wealthy woman, but her mother had left her fortune to her husband. When Thomas was executed, the crown confiscated everything he had, including Catherine's bequest. The child appears to have died around the age of two, when she disappears from historical record.

Upon hearing of his death, Princess Elizabeth said, "today died a man with much wit and not much judgment." After almost being seduced by Thomas Seymour, Elizabeth learned to be much more careful in her interactions with men.

Ascanio Maria Sforza , Abbot of Chiaraavalle
      Sex: M
Individual Information
          Birth: 1455
    Christening: 
          Death: 1505
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Parents
         Father: Francesco I of Milan Sforza , the Condottieri (1401-1466) 
         Mother: Bianca Maria Visconti (1425-1468) 
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Abbot of Chiaravalle, Bishop of Pavia, Creamoan, Pesaro and Novara. Cardinal - 6 March 1484

Elisabetta Maria Sforza
      Sex: F
Individual Information
          Birth: 1456
    Christening: 
          Death: 1472
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Parents
         Father: Francesco I of Milan Sforza , the Condottieri (1401-1466) 
         Mother: Bianca Maria Visconti (1425-1468) 
Spouses and Children
1. *Guglielmo VII Paleolgo , Margrave of Montferrat (1416 - 1483)
       Marriage: Unknown
         Status: 
Filippo Maria Sforza , Count of Corsica
      Sex: M
Individual Information
          Birth: 1448
    Christening: 
          Death: 1492
         Burial: 
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Parents
         Father: Francesco I of Milan Sforza , the Condottieri (1401-1466) 
         Mother: Bianca Maria Visconti (1425-1468) 