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  1. Sir Thomas Parr (1478 [1] – 11 November 1517) of Kendal in Westmorland (now Cumbria ), England, was a courtier and is best known as the father of Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII . Early life and family. Thomas was the eldest son of Sir William Parr and Elizabeth FitzHugh.

  2. Catherine Parr was the eldest child of Sir Thomas Parr, lord of the manor of Kendal in Westmorland (now in Cumbria), and Maud Green, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Green, lord of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire, and Joan Fogge. Like Anne Boleyn, Catherine had been raised as a Catholic but at some point turned to Protestantism.

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  4. tudortimes.co.uk › people › sir-thomas-parr-of-kendalTudor Times | Sir Thomas Parr

    Sir Thomas was later noted by Roger Ascham as a scholar of Greek and Latin. Like many of the gentry and nobles in the early sixteenth century, Parr was heavily in debt to the Crown, owing some 9,000 marks to the king at Henry VII's death. Fortunately, this debt was cancelled by the new king, and an annuity of 50 marks was granted to him to ...

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