We've hit the Tudor period Sir John Seymour I'm very intrigued about I'm
here to see Tracie Baumann come to me John Seymour John Seymour so
um I've been doing this on me journey I've got a nice little smudge this much
means photo of Sir John he wasn't a secret father Christmas it's one hell of
a bed is a beard in it and that tends to denote age so you know he was seen as
quite an ancient man he lived to the age of 60 which actually is not bad for
those times average age 35 at death okay so he's he's had a long life the longer
the beard the longer the life and you can actually meet Sir John in the church
I was he knocking about it he's nothing about it we dug him up so here we are in
your ancestors Church
ah here we cannot touch him do you reckon I think you can touch him
you know my 15 times great-grandfather mr. John he's an important man because
he's got his own turn yep now if you want to read the inscription
especially that top line there here life in termed the worthy
Sir John Seymour of Wolf Hall which is now course world famous because of
course the famous novel the plays the TV yeah a daughter of Sir John Jane Queen
of England wife ticking Henry the eighth and mother to King Edward the sixth Jane
the Queen that's why the Seymours have gone down in history
if Jane Seymour marries Henry the eighth and is the only one of the six wives to
give Henry a son and that really did propel the Seymours then to greatness
they were already a distinguished family but now they were all powerful so would
you like to go and see the place Wolf Hall I'd love to yeah that's right where
is it it's very close to here there's still a few bits of the original house
remaining oh okay I'll be very and I'll be very intrigued to just makes me fool
it's a nice feeling not that he's dead because that would be weird
just a nice feeling to think that you know people I'm elated to celebrate it
so much that's the key
so here we are Wow this it well this is a later house
but it stands on the site of the original still some bits really house
hello fanny Genevieve nice to meet you pleasure to meet you mrs. Jung Tracy
hello so what you live here I do and I was born yet really yeah what does it
feel like to live in war fault um at first it just seemed normal to me
because this was and then when you find out more
it's pretty surreal so what are you so are you related to Sir John Seymour yeah
oh yeah yes yeah and that means that we that makes you family we're family
yeah come here this important missus so obviously what happened was is that the
trees it went to yo instead of me and I ended up on a working-class sort
of cancer estate he didn't go bad though did yeah have you seen the ghost of him
knocking about not me personally but yeah but is there talk of it yeah the
last weekend so all these other guys really really nice I love it well
what are your first impressions not gonna lie to you trisys is a bit
underwhelming as beautiful as it is what with the palaces have been to
monasteries chapels whatever it's a little bit Biddy you're absolutely right
and that's really the point Wolf Hall was quite a small house for Henry the
eighth to visit as he does in 1535 as part of his royal progress around the
country so why did he come here to spend time with Sir John Seymour and in
particular with John's daughter Jane despite living in a house rather than a
castle so John Seymour impressed Henry the eighth and his daughter Jane married
the king the Seymour family were regulars at Henry's cult where it was
important to know exactly how to behave
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