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Katherine Fillol, daughter of Sir William Fillol, of Woodlands, and Dorothy Ifield, married Edward Seymour, the future duke of Somerset and Lord Protector of England. Katherine had two sons John and Edward. John was supposed to have been born when Edward Seymour was in France. His legitimacy was thus, rightly or wrongly, suspected, and was used by Edward Seymour to repudiate his wife.
Yet in the irony of things it was his two elder sons who remained faithful to their father in the years of his misfortunes. In 1550 and 1551 both John and Edward Seymour were sent to the Tower with their father, and John Seymour paid the price with his life, dying in the Tower in December of 1552.
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