Edward VI Crowned

1547

The nine-year-old Edward VI, only surviving son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, was crowned in Westminster Abbey. His maternal uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, ruled as Lord Protector and pushed the English Reformation further in a Protestant direction. Six years later Edward was dead of tuberculosis. The young king proved precociously intelligent and deeply Protestant, personally supporting the most radical reforms of Cranmer's tenure.