Catherine Parr (c.1512 – 5 September 1548) was the last of the six wives of Henry VIII of England. She was queen consort of England during 1543–1547, then Dowager Queen of England. She was the most-married English Queen, with four husbands
Catherine was born at Kendal Castle in Westmorland, North West England, where her ancestors had resided since the fourteenth century. She was the eldest child of Sir Thomas Parr, of Horton House, Northamptonshi...
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Catherine Parr (c.1512 – 5 September 1548) was the last of the six wives of Henry VIII of England. She was queen consort of England during 1543–1547, then Dowager Queen of England. She was the most-married English Queen, with four husbands
Catherine was born at Kendal Castle in Westmorland, North West England, where her ancestors had resided since the fourteenth century. She was the eldest child of Sir Thomas Parr, of Horton House, Northamptonshire, descendant of King Edward III, and the former Maud Green (6 April 1495 – 20 August 1529), daughter of Sir Thomas Green, of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire. She had a younger brother, William, later 1st Marquess of Northampton, and a sister, Anne, later Countess of Pembroke. Sir Thomas was Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Master of the Wards and Comptroller to King Henry VIII. Her mother, Lady Parr, was an attendant of Queen Catherine of Aragon.
At the age of seventeen in 1529, she became the wife of the 2nd Baron Burgh. He died in the spring...
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