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CATHERINE PARR (1512-1548)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 862 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CATHERINE See also:PARR (1512-1548)  , the See also:sixth See also:queen of See also:Henry VIII., was a daughter of See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Parr (d . 1517), of See also:Kendal, an See also:official of the royal See also:household . When only a girl she was married to See also:Edward See also:Borough, and after his See also:death in or before 1529 to See also:John See also:Neville, See also:Lord See also:Latimer, who died in 1542 or 1543 . Latimer had only been dead a few months when, on the 12th of See also:July 1543, See also:Catherine was married to Henry VIII. at See also:Hampton See also:Court . The new queen, who was See also:regent of See also:England during the See also:king's See also:absence in 1544, acted in a very kindly See also:fashion towards her stepchildren; but her patience_with the king did not prevent a See also:charge of See also:heresy from being brought against her . Henry, however, would not permit her See also:arrest, and she became a widow for the third See also:time on his death in See also:January 1547 . In the same See also:year she married a former See also:lover, Sir Thomas See also:Seymour, now Lord Seymour of Sudeley . Soon after this event, on the 7th of See also:September 1548, she died at Sudeley See also:castle . Catherine was a pious and charitable woman and a friend of learning; she wrote The Lamentation or Complaint of a Sinner, which was published after her death . See A . See also:Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, vol. iii . (1877) .

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