See also
| Husband: | Edward Burgh ( -bef1533) | |
| Wife: | Catherine Parr - 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548) | |
| Name: | Edward Burgh | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Death | bef Apr 15331 | |
Catherine Parr - 6th wife of Henry VIII
| Name: | Catherine Parr - 6th wife of Henry VIII | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Thomas Parr ( - ) | |
| Mother: | Maud Green ( - ) | |
| Note: | Sister of William Parr who married Anne Bourchier. Catherine Parr (alternatively Katherine or Kateryn) (1512[1] – 5 September 1548) was Queen of England and of Ireland (1543–47) as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII. She married him on 12 July 1543, and outlived him by one year. She was also the most-married English queen, with four husbands, and the first woman to be queen of both England and Ireland. Catherine enjoyed a close relationship with Henry's three children and was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth and Edward, both of whom became English monarchs. She was influential in Henry's passing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, to the line of succession to the throne.[2] Catherine was appointed Regent from July to September 1544 while Henry was on a military campaign in France and in case he lost his life, she was to rule as regent until Edward came of age. However he did not give her any function in government in his will. In 1544, she published her first book, Psalms or Prayers, anonymously.[3] On account of Catherine's Protestant sympathies, she provoked the enmity of powerful Catholic officials who sought to turn the King against her—a warrant for her arrest was drawn up in 1546. However, she and the King soon reconciled. Her book Prayers or Meditations became the first book published by an English queen under her own name. She assumed the role of Elizabeth's guardian following the King's death, and published a third book, The Lamentations of a Sinner. Henry died on 28 January 1547. Six months after Henry's death, she married her fourth and final husband, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley. The marriage was short-lived, as she died in September 1548, probably of complications of childbirth. |
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| Birth | 1512 | Blackfriars, London, England |
| Death | 5 Sep 1548 (age 35-36) | Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England1 |
| Cause: Puerperal fever without male issue |
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| Burial | Sudeley Castle1 | |
| 1 | Vicary Gibbs (ed.) and others, "The Complete Peerage" (13 volumes (in 14 parts). London: The St Catherine Press Ltd. 1910-1959 Volume 14 (addenda and corrigenda). Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd. 1998. Microprint edition of volumes 1-13. Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. First published 1982; reprinted 2000.). Volume 11, page 639. |