William Sidney (courtier)
Sir William Sidney was an English courtier under Henry VIII and Edward VI.
Heraldic emblem of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, founded by Frances Sidney (Sidney’s daughter), a porcupine (statant) azure quills collar and chain or, being the crest of the Sidney family
Tomb of Sir William Sidney (c. 1482–1554) at St John the Baptist, Penshurst
Sir Henry Sydney
Lady Anne (Sidney) Fitzwilliam, 1577
Edward VI was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, Edward was the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a regency council because Edward never reached maturity. The council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (1550–1553).
Portrait by William Scrots, c. 1550
Prince Edward in 1538, by Hans Holbein the Younger. He holds a golden rattle that resembles a sceptre; and the Latin inscription urges him to equal or surpass his father.
Edward as Prince of Wales, 1546. He wears the Prince of Wales's feathers and crown on the pendant jewel. Attributed to William Scrots. Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
The badge of Prince Edward, from John Leland's Genethliacon illustrissimi Eaduerdi principis Cambriae (1543)