 His attainder was reversed by Parliament in 1550, although the property was not returned to Mary Seymour, his only child; Mary is believed to have died at about the age of two years soon afterward.To his contemporaries, he appeared as forceful and reckless, and also, very attractive to women.Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, a boyhood friend of King Edward, described Thomas Seymour as "hardy, wise and liberal ... fierce in courage, courtly in fashion, in personage stately, in voice magnificent, but somewhat empty of matter."