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Lady Arbella Stuart was an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Elizabeth I. During the reign of James VI and I, she married William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, another cla
Lady Arabella Stuart
Arbella Stuart aged 2. circa 1577
Arbella Stuart in 1592, Nicholas Hilliard.
Arbella Stuart
William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, was an English nobleman and Royalist commander in the English Civil War.
Lady Arbella Stuart
…was an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Elizabeth I. During the reign of James VI and I (her first cousin), she married William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, another claimant to the English throne, in secret. King James imprisoned Seymour and placed her under house arrest. When she and her husband tried to…
William Seymour, Marquess of Hertford, later 2nd Duke of Somerset (1588–1660), portrait attributed to Gilbert Jackson (c. 1595/1600–1648), private collection
Frances Devereux, by Anthony van Dyck