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  1. Mar 11, 2012 · Katherine Parr was the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Parr and his wife Maud Green, both of whom were at the court of Henry VIII in his early reign. Maud was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon and named her daughter, born in 1512, after her. So, Henry VIII’s last wife was named after his first.

  2. Jan 31, 2015 · Katharine Parr was the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, destined to outlive the mercurial ruler. She was already twice-widowed and childless when they wed in 1543; she was also in love with Thomas Seymour, the brother of Henry’s third queen Jane. But the king’s will was law and Katharine bowed to his demands with grace.

  3. Aug 30, 2022 · Katherine Parr married her first husband when she was 17. Thomas Parr died when Katherine was just 5 years old, leaving her and her two younger siblings, William and Anne, in the care of their ...

  4. Katherine Parr and Henry VIII met when she secured a position in Princess Mary's household in late 1542. Katherine was, by most accounts, vivacious, attractive and a scholar. She was also 30 years old, a mature contrast to Catherine Howard, and a more sensible choice for an ailing King in need of a nurse as much as a wife.

  5. May 18, 2018 · Parr, Catherine (1512 – 1548) The sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII of England. She was born in Kendal, the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, a court official. She married twice, the first time to Lord Edward of Borough. After his death, she married Baron John Neville, who died in 1543. Although she was drawing close to Thomas Seymour, the ...

  6. Feb 3, 2021 · Catherine Parr was likely named after Catherine of Aragon, as the queen was also her godmother, an interesting and largely unknown link between Henry VIII’s first and last queens. 2. She married twice before wedding Henry VIII. Though best known as Henry VIII’s sixth queen, Catherine was in fact married twice before.

  7. Catherine Parr (alternatively Katherine or Kateryn) (26 August 1512 – 5 September 1548) was Queen of England and of Ireland (1543–47). She was the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII . She married him on 12 July 1543, and outlived him by one year.

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