CATHERINE PARR


Meaning of CATHERINE PARR in English

born 1512

died Sept. 7, 1548

Sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII of England.

The daughter of an official in the royal household, she had been widowed twice by the time she married Henry in 1543. She exerted a beneficial influence on the increasingly paranoid king and developed close friendships with his children by previous marriages. After Henry's death in 1547, she married Baron Thomas Seymour but died shortly after giving birth to a daughter.

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