H.M. Edward VI (Tudor), King of England

1537 - 1553  (15 years)

• Name	Edward VI (Tudor)  [1]
  Title	H.M.
  Suffix	King of England
  Born	12 Oct. 1537	Hampton Court Palace, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England   [2]
  Christened	15 Oct. 1537	Chapel, Hampton Court Palace, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Coronation	20 Feb. 1547	Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [2]
  	At Westminster Abbey on the 20th, "with the orgayns goinge, the quere singinge & the trumpettes" blaring in the battlements, Somerset and Cranmer together placed three crowns successively on Edward's head: St. Edward's crown, the imperial crown of England, and a third made especially for him (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS. 105, page 238). Walking beneath a canopy of crimson silk and cloth of gold topped by silver bells, the boy-king wore a crimson satin robe trimmed with gold silk lace costing £118 16s. 8d. and a pair of "Sabatons" of cloth of gold. The service itself followed the Latin ordo, but in view of its length it was modified to accommodate Edward's age; the changes allowed Edward an occasional rest, and for his presentation to the people, he was carried about the stage in a "litill cheyre" of crimson velvet (British Library, Add. MS. 9069, folio 34v). [2]
  Regnal Name	Edward VI
  Died	6 July 1553	Greenwich, Kent, England   [2]
  Buried	8 Aug. 1553	Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Person ID	I419	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	4 Aug. 2019

  
  

  Father	H.M. Henry VIII (Tudor), King of England,   b. 28 June 1491, Greenwich, Kent, England ,   d. 28 Jan. 1547, Whitehall Palace, London, Middlesex, England  (Age 55 years)
  Mother	Jane Seymour,   b. 1508/09,   d. 24 Oct. 1537, Hampton Court Palace, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England  (Age 28 years)
  Married	30 May 1536	Queen's Closet, Whitehall, London, Middlesex, England   [3]
  Family ID	F203	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Plantagenet quartering France Modern: Royal Arms of England (c.1400–1603) Quarterly France Modern and England. Occasionally found in the form, Quarterly England and France Modern. [France Modern: Azure three fleurs de lis or.] [England: Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or.] Source: Boutell's Heraldry, rev. J. P. Brooke-Little (1970), p. 208.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), D. Hoak, "Edward VI (1537–1553), king of England and Ireland". [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), D. Hoak, "Edward VI (1537–1553), king of England and Ireland". [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), B. L. Beer, "Jane [née Jane Seymour] (1508/9–1537), queen of England, third consort of Henry VIII".