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- 6th wife of Henry VIII, Sister of William Parr who married Anne Bourchier.

Catherine Parr (alternatively Katherine or Kateryn) (1512[1] – 5 September 1548) was Queen of England and of Ireland (1543–47) as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII. She married him on 12 July 1543, and outlived him by one year. She was also the most-married English queen, with four husbands, and the first woman to be queen of both England and Ireland.

Catherine enjoyed a close relationship with Henry's three children and was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth and Edward, both of whom became English monarchs. She was influential in Henry's passing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, to the line of succession to the throne.[2]

Catherine was appointed Regent from July to September 1544 while Henry was on a military campaign in France and in case he lost his life, she was to rule as regent until Edward came of age. However he did not give her any function in government in his will. In 1544, she published her first book, Psalms or Prayers, anonymously.[3] On account of Catherine's Protestant sympathies, she provoked the enmity of powerful Catholic officials who sought to turn the King against her—a warrant for her arrest was drawn up in 1546. However, she and the King soon reconciled. Her book Prayers or Meditations became the first book published by an English queen under her own name. She assumed the role of Elizabeth's guardian following the King's death, and published a third book, The Lamentations of a Sinner.

Henry died on 28 January 1547. Six months after Henry's death, she married her fourth and final husband, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley. The marriage was short-lived, as she died in September 1548, probably of complications of childbirth.



Died:
without male issue

Family/Spouse: Edward Burgh. Edward died before Apr 1533. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 3rd Lord Latimer John Neville. John died on (2 Mar 1542/1543). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married King Henry Tudor, King Henry VIII, Duke of Cornwall on 12 Jul 1543. Henry (son of King Henry Tudor, King Henry VII and Elizabeth Plantagenet, of York) was born on 28 Jun 1491 in Greenwich Palace, Greenwich; was christened in Greenwich; died on 28 Jan 1547 in Whitehall, London, Engand; was buried on 4 Feb 1547 in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Baron Seymour of Sudeley Thomas Seymour in (AFT 28 Jan 1546/7). Thomas (son of John Seymour and Margery Wentworth) was born about 1508; died on (20 Mar 1548/1549) in Tower Hill; was buried in Tower of London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(secretly)

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Residence:
Kendal, Westmorland

Thomas + Maud Green. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Residence:
Green's Norton, Northamptonshire

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