Catherine
Parr, the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal, was
born in 1512.
Henry
VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine
Howard, in 1540. The following year she was charged by Thomas
Cranmer of having sexual intercourse before her marriage with
Henry Mannock, Francis Dereham and Thomas Culpepper.
Henry now sought a new
wife and in 1543 married Catherine. She was a good stepmother to Henry's
two daughters Mary and Elizabeth.
Catherine also helped to moderate Henry's religious persecutions.
Soon after Henry
VIII died in 1547 Catherine married Thomas
Seymour of Sudeley, but died in childbirth the following year.
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