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Catherine Parr

Type Figure Region England Time 1512–1548 Also known as Catherine Parr、Queen Catherine of England

Catherine Parr (1512-1548), Henry VIII's sixth and last queen, was a learned English Tudor noblewoman and Protestant humanist who twice widowed, rest…

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  1. 1512–1543Kendal · CumbriaCatherine Parr came from a noble family, successively marrying Sir Edward Neville and Lord John Neville, and twice widowed. Well educated, she knew Latin and French, embraced Protestant humanist thought, and sympathized with the Reformation.
  2. 1543–1547London · Greater LondonIn July 1543 Catherine married Henry VIII at Hampton Court, becoming England's sixth queen. She won Henry's trust through steady diplomacy and learning, secured the restoration of Mary's and Elizabeth's succession rights, and wrote Prayers or Meditations, becoming the first English woman to publish a book under her own name.
  3. 1547–1548Sudeley Castle · GloucestershireAfter Henry VIII died in 1547, Catherine secretly married her long-time lover Thomas Seymour. In 1548 she gave birth to a daughter, Mary, at Sudeley Castle but died soon after of puerperal fever at about thirty-six, the last Tudor queen to gain fame through marriage to Henry VIII.

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