Edward VI of England

Edward VI was King of England and Ireland fromJanuary 1547 until his death. He was crowned onFebruary at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and Englands first monarch raised as a Protestant. During Edwards reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council because he never reached his majority. The Council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset , and then by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick, from 1551 Duke of Northumberland.

Edward was born onOctober 1537 in his mothers room inside Hampton Court Palace, in Middlesex. He was the son of King Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour. Throughout the realm, the people greeted the birth of a male heir, whom we hungered for so long, with joy and relief. Te Deums were sung in churches, bonfires lit, and their was shott at the Tower that night above two thousand gonnes. Queen Jane, appearing to recover quickly from the birth, sent out personally signed letters announcing the birth of a Prince, conceived in most lawful matrimony between my Lord the Kings Majesty and us. Edward was christened onOctober, with his halfsisters, the 21yearold Lady Mary as godmother and the 4yearold Lady Elizabeth carrying the chrisom and the Garter King of Arms proclaimed him as Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester. The Queen, however, fell ill onOctober from presumed postnatal complications, and died the following night. Henry VIII wrote to Francis I of France that Divine

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