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

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