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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.
She and Sir Ralph Lane of Orpington had three sons: politician Robert Lane was born in 1527, [3] Ralph (later governor of Virginia), and MP William Lane. [4] Their seven girls included Frances who married Sir George Turpin, Lettice who married Peter Wentworth, Mary who married Thomas Pigot) Jane who married first the MP Lewis Montgomery and second Thomas Bawde, Dorothy who married Sir William ...
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 .
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 ...
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Prayers or Meditations reached a remarkable number of editions in the 16th century and was overall very successful among English readers during Parr's lifetime and after her death in 1548. [5] Her stepdaughter Elizabeth translated it into Latin, French and Italian as a New Year's gift to Henry VIII. [7]
3/5 This story of the gluttonous king’s least-explored wife has its promising flourishes, ... A girlboss Katherine Parr biopic, but it’s Jude Law’s Henry VIII who steals the show.
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.