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Catherine Parr was the eldest child of Sir Thomas Parr, lord of the manor of Kendal in Westmorland (now in Westmorland and Furness), and Maud Green, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Green, lord of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire, and Joan Fogge.
Embroidered book cover made by Elizabeth I at the age of 11, presented to Katherine Parr. Needlework is decorative sewing and textile arts handicrafts. Anything that uses a needle for construction can be called needlework. [1] Needlework may include related textile crafts such as crochet, worked with a hook, or tatting, worked with a shuttle.
A second embroidered manuscript book, entitled Prayers of Queen Katherine Parr, is also attributed to Elizabeth as a gift to the queen dated 20 December 1545. It contains prayers or meditations the queen had originally composed in English, which the princess had translated into French, Latin and Italian , handwritten in the princess's hand on ...
Jane was a well-liked jester at the court of Catherine Parr, where she is mentioned by name as "Jane Foole" in 1543. [2] Catherine Parr bought her a red petticoat, gowns, and kirtles. [ 7 ] She may have been depicted in the painting of Henry the Eighth and His Family (1545), in which the man on the far right is identified as her colleague ...
Catherine Parr (1512−1548) — of 16th century England. The 6th & last wife (1543−1547) of King Henry VIII , religious scholar, and 1st credited female author of a book published in the English language .
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.
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]
A painting by Holbein, formerly thought to be of Mary, is at the Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur. [99] [101] [108] Elizabeth Hoby [109] c. 1532 – c. 1543: Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink, and brush and ink on pale pink prepared paper. 27.5 × 20.1 cm: Elizabeth, Lady Hoby was a member of Queen Catherine Parr's circle. [109]