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Catherine Parr (she signed her letters as Kateryn; c. July/August 1512 [2] – 5 September 1548) was Queen of England and Ireland as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 12 July 1543 until Henry's death on 28 January 1547.
Title page of The Lamentation of a Sinner. The Lamentation of a Sinner (contemporary spelling: The Lamentacion of a Synner) is a three-part sequence of reflections published by the English queen Catherine Parr, the sixth wife and widow of Henry VIII, as well as the first woman to publish in English under her own name. [1]
For instance, Catherine was a respected author, and the first woman to publish an original work in print, in her own name in England and in the English language. She did go on to marry Seymour ...
The Melton Constable or Hastings portrait of Queen Catherine Parr. Seymour returned to court just before Henry VIII died in January 1547, leaving Catherine one of the wealthiest women in England. According to the King's will, a regency council was constituted to rule on behalf of the nine-year-old orphaned King Edward.
Parr envisaged it as a private counterpart to the Exhortation and Litany, authored for public devotion by the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer. Archbishop Cranmer's was the first such work for the Church of England to receive royal approval; to be released for general use, Queen Catherine too must have needed to obtain permission of her ...
Tudor, or not Tudor. That is the question in “Firebrand,” a revisionist royal portrait of Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr (played here by Alicia Vikander), that features all the ...
Drawing of the Parr tomb illustrating Maud Green, and her husband Sir Thomas Parr kneeling with their children at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, London which was later destroyed. Maud Green, Lady Parr (6 April 1490/92 – 1 December 1531) [1] was an English courtier. She was the mother of Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII of England.
“Firebrand” follows “legendary Queen of England, Katherine Parr, and her quest to survive the perilous last months in the life of her ailing and abusive husband, Henry VIII,” per the release.