Our Somers Family Heritage

Updated September 21, 2022 While searching the Internet for "William Henry Somers" I came across this interesting trivia: Source: Wikipedia A William Sommers (or Somers) served as Henry VIII's court jester and retired during Elizabeth I's reign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sommers The Anne Boleyn Files reports this about Henry VIII's Court Jester: 15 June 1560 – Death of William Somer (Sommers), Court Fool to Henry VIII Posted By Claire on June 15, 2013 On 15th June 1560, William Somer (Sommers), former court fool to Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I died in Shoreditch, London. He was buried at St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch. Somer served as Henry VIII’s fool from June 1535 and just a month later got into trouble with the King. In July 1535, Eustace Chapuys, the Imperial ambassador, recorded that Henry VIII was so angry with Somer that he nearly killed him: “He the other day nearly murdered his own fool, a simple and innocent man, becaus...