Sir Thomas Parr - Marriage

Marriage

Thomas Parr married Maud Green (6 April 1495 – 1 December 1531), daughter of Sir Thomas Green and Joan Fogge in 1508. Before the birth of their most famous offspring, Catherine (also spelled Katherine), Maud gave birth to a son. This occurred not long after Maud and Thomas' marriage. Their happiness at the birth proved short lived as the baby soon died and his name remains unknown. After the birth of their third child, Anne, Maud fell pregnant again — in circa 1517, the year of her husband's death. The child, however, either miscarried or was stillborn, or succumbed in very early infancy to an illness. Whatever the cause of the tragic loss, it may have been somewhat of a relief on a practical level as the baby had arrived at a difficult juncture in Maud's life, with her husband dying and she being appointed executrix of his estate.

The surviving children of Sir Thomas and Maud were:

  • Catherine Parr (1512–5 September 1548); Queen Consort of England and Ireland, who wed:
    • Sir Edward Burgh, 1529 at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England.
    • John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latimer, 1534 in London, Middlesex, England.
    • King Henry VIII, 12 July 1543 at Hampton Court Palace in the private oratory of the Queen's Closet.
    • Sir Thomas Seymour on 4 Apr 1547. Had issue: Lady Mary.
  • William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, 1st Marquess of Northampton (c. 1513–28 October 1571) He married three times, all without issue:
    • Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier
    • Elizabeth Brooke
    • Helena Snakenborg.
  • Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke (c. 1515-20 February 1552), married in 1538, William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, by whom she had two sons and a daughter.

  • Catherine Parr, sixth Queen of Henry VIII.

  • William Parr.

  • Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke.

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