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Thomas Seymour's other royal connection was with Catherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth wife, whom Seymour would later marry, after Henry's death. In 1543, Parr established herself as part of Princess Mary's household, where she caught the attention of the King. Although she had already begun a romantic relationship with Seymour, she saw it as her ...
A letter from Catherine Parr to Thomas Seymour, declaring her love. On display at Sudeley Castle. Following Henry's death, Catherine's old love and the new king's uncle, Thomas Seymour (who was soon created 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley), returned to court. Catherine was quick to accept when Seymour renewed his suit of marriage.
Mary Seymour (30 August 1548 – ?), born at her father’s country seat, Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, was the only daughter of Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley (brother of Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII), and the dowager queen, Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII. Although Catherine was married four times, Mary was ...
Drawing of the Parr tomb illustrating Thomas Parr, and his wife Maud Green kneeling with their children at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, London which was later destroyed. Sir Thomas Parr (1478 [ 1 ] – 11 November 1517) of Kendal in Westmorland (now Cumbria ), England, was a courtier and is best known as the father of Queen Catherine Parr , the ...
Katherine shortly afterward married Thomas Seymour, Lord Sudeley, Lord High Admiral of England, who was an uncle of King Edward. In September 1548, following the birth of a daughter, Mary Seymour, Katherine Parr died of puerperal fever.
In that September, Catherine Parr died in childbirth, and Thomas Seymour promptly resumed his attentions to Elizabeth by letter, planning to marry her. Elizabeth was receptive, but, like Edward, unready to agree to anything unless permitted by the council. [ 35 ]
Law stars as Tudor monarch Henry VIII, in the historical drama documenting the relationship between the 28-stone King and his sixth wife Catherine Parr, played by Alicia Vikander.
During Parr's tenure, one of her attendants was Lady Jane Grey, Thomas Seymour's ward, [18] who would be queen for nine days in 1553. [19] Tomb of Catherine Parr, added in 1863. Catherine died at Sudeley on 5 September 1548 from what was described as "childbed fever", five days after giving birth to her daughter Mary Seymour.