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	Katharine / Catherine / Katherine Parr: Biography, Portraits, Primary Sources
		Katharine was raised in Northamptonshire in the household of her uncle Sir William Parr.
		Katharine chose as her motto 'To be useful in all I do.' And she had a truly endearing personality, as proven by the genuine affection which a variety of people felt for her.
		Katharine made the mistake of engaging the king in theological discourse while he was physically unwell and under the influence of his conservative courtiers.
	englishhistory.net /tudor/monarchs/parr.html (3553 words)

	Portraits of The Six Wives of King Henry VIII: Katharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, ...
		Henry's first wife, Katharine of Aragon, was the youngest child of the 'Catholic Kings' of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella; she and Henry were married for over twenty years.
		Katharine appears solemn and pensive; she was homesick and lonely, and Henry VII was hardly a generous father-in-law now that she was a mere princess dowager.
		Katharine of Aragon with a monkey, c1525, by Lucas Horenbout / Horenbolte.
	www.marileecody.com /sixwivesimages.html (1120 words)

	Primary Sources - Letter of Katharine Parr to her stepdaughter, Princess Mary, 20 September 1544
		Katharine was very close to all of her stepchildren, though she and Princess Mary differed greatly in matters of religion.
		Mary was, in truth, only a few years younger than Katharine and so the queen did not have a profound impact upon Mary's life - not as she did upon the much younger Elizabeth and Edward, both of whom came to love Katharine as a mother.
		Mary was notoriously prone to illness and it is obvious that Katharine felt genuine concern for her step-daughter's well-being.
	www.englishhistory.net /tudor/letter16.html (352 words)

	Catherine Parr -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Catherine Parr (about 1512 - September 7, 1548), also spelled Katharine, was the (The wife of a reigning king) Queen Consort of (additional info and facts about Henry VIII of England) Henry VIII of England 1543-1547; the last wife of his six.
		She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of (A green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant) Kendal in the (A popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain) Lake District, and his wife, Maud Green.
		Some of Catherine Parr's writings are available from the (additional info and facts about Women Writers Project) Women Writers Project.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/catherine_parr.htm (1093 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Horizon Section
		Katharine wept bitterly when Henry revealed that his troubled conscience was urging him out of the marriage, but she didn't care to acquiesce.
		Katharine relentlessly reminded Henry that their marriage was legal because she was a virgin when they wed, while Anne Boleyn bemoaned her own state of affairs.
		Catherine Parr, doting as she was, had the unfortunate habit of arguing religion with an aging and irate king who thought himself quite the expert.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/horizon/june98/henry.htm (3857 words)

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		Katharine Parr had been first married as a mere child to the old Lord Borough of Gainsborough, and had been left a widow before she was seventeen.
		Katharine undoubtedly intended to become his wife, but as she afterwards wrote, her "will was over-ruled by a higher power." On the 20th June of the same year, Lady Latimer and her sister Mrs.
		Katharine was twenty-six, about one year younger than the Lady Mary, and was by universal fame reported "a prudent, beautiful, and virtuous lady." The royal family had reason to be grateful for her influence over the king, whom she persuaded to restore both Mary and Elizabeth to their rank.
	mirrors.xmission.com /gutenberg/etext03/stdsf10.txt (15456 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Sixth Wife by Jean Plaidy
		Katharine and her sister Anne agree that the wedding ring around Katharine's finger is akin to a noose around her neck.
		When Katharine asks the king for favors, Henry is pleased to be able to grant her that which he himself quietly wants, allowing him to feel at once benevolent and relieved.
		Dr. London's plot to forge documents implicating Katharine as a heretic is foiled when Katharine takes a hand in her own fate, sending a message to those who would destroy her that this queen will not easily be put away.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/sixth_wife1.asp (1005 words)

	The Ducklet's Jean Plaidy Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The destitute Katharine, prevented from returning home after the death of her husband, becomes a helpless pawn in the hands of a father and son, each fighting for the same young princess.
		Katharine and Henry VIII marry under the symbol of fertility, the pomegranate.
		Katharine Howard was left pretty much to her own devices as a young girl and woman, and became quite promiscuous.
	www.cybcity.com /angryducklet/plaidy.html (7665 words)

	The Sixth Wife by Jean Plaidy
		It is Katharine Parr who catches his eye—and is thrown into a life of danger and intrigue as the sixth wife of the fickle and ruthless Henry VIII.
		Katharine and her companions live in constant fear of the king’s displeasure, which they know could lead quickly to execution.
		Katharine Parr’s story is one of forebearance and fear, of hope and heartbreak.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780609810262&view=rg (1040 words)

	Reviews
		Lady-in-waiting to Katharine Parr, who was Henry VIII's sixth and last wife, Anne Askew renounced her marriage for her religion, and when tortured on the rack, she refused to provide the names of other Reformers.
		An attempt to persuade Henry that Katharine was a heretic was foiled when a piece of paper containing information of the plot was discovered and handed to Katharine.
		He believed her, the plot was foiled, Protestantism survived, and Katharine saw the king buried with Protestantism still in place, after which she moved quietly on to a different life.
	www.cercles.com /review/r5/zahl.html (1439 words)

	New Tudor Portraits
		By contrast, I've come across very few romanticized portraits of Katharine of Aragon during or after her daughter's reign; the ones I have found are fl-and-white etchings.
		Margaret was Henry VII's eldest daughter; her marriage to the king of Scotland eventually led to the union of England and Scotland upon Elizabeth I's death in 1603.
		A unique feature of this work is that it includes Katharine's hands; all of Horenbout's other miniatures focused on the head and shoulders.
	www.marileecody.com /newpics.html (1025 words)

	CHAPTER VI
		In 1540 Cromwell arranged another union with the plainest woman in Europe, Anne of Cleves; which proved so distasteful to Henry that he speedily divorced her, and in resentment at Cromwell's having entrapped him, by a flattering portrait drawn by Holbein, the Minister came under his displeasure, which at that time meant death.
		He was beheaded in 1540, and in that same year occurred the King's marriage with Katharine Howard, who one year later met same fate as Anne Boleyn.
		Katharine Parr, the fifth and last wife, and an ardent Protestant and reformer, also narrowly escaped, and would undoubtedly at last have gone to the block.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Empire/00000017.htm (1259 words)

	Re: MY NAME IS TONYA ELIZABETH KANE/TREEE:THIS IS PROOF OF ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Eustace Chapuys, the Imperial ambassador and enemy of Anne Boleyn, described the birth to his master as 'a great disappointment and sorrow to the King, the Lady herself and to others of her party.' But for the next two years, Henry VIII was willing to hope for a son to join this healthy daughter.
		Likewise, Katharine Parr was devoted to the reformed faith.
		After all, she and Jane had lived and studied together briefly under Katharine Parr's tutelage, and Jane's admiration of Elizabeth had been open and obvious.
	www.sangraal.com /Discussion/0000030b.htm (21713 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Henry VIII Six Wives of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Katharine of Aragon's story includes a lengthy account of her first years in England.
		Anne Boleyn is introduced in Katharine's story, but her play begins after the birth of Elizabeth and mainly concerns her arrest and execution.
		Anne Stallybrass as Jane Seymour and Rosalie Crutchley as Catherine Parr are particular standouts.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6302676185 (1398 words)

	Winchcombe
		The Parish Church was built in the 15th century, and is renowned for the 40 grotesque gargoyles that conduct rainwater from the roof.
		An altar cloth that was embroidered by Katharine of Aragon, while she resided at Sudeley Castle, is on display in the church.
		Katharine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth and last wife, outlived King Henry and came to live at Sudeley Castle, following her marriage to the owner Lord Seymour.
	www.gwsr.com /html/winchcombe.html (319 words)

	Amazon.com: In the Shadow of the Crown: The Tudor Queens: Books: Jean Plaidy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England.
		He divorced her mother and, at the age of twelve, Mary was banished from her father’s presence, stripped of her royal title, and replaced by his other children--first Elizabeth, then Edward.
		Katharine of Aragon: The Wives of Henry VIII by Jean Plaidy
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0609810197?v=glance (2365 words)

	Jane Seymour from Agnes Strickland's "Lives of the Queens of England"
		The heir of England was borne back in solemn state, with trumpets sounding before him, to his mother's chamber, there to receive her blessing, and that the maternal lips might first address him by his Christian name.
		Katharine of Arragon was buried as his brother's widow, and not as his own wife.
		As to Anne Boleyn, her poor mangled corpse was not vouchsafed, as far as her unloving spouse was aware, the religious rites bestowed on the remains of the most wretched mendicant who expires on the highway of our Christian land.
	tudorhistory.org /secondary/strickland/seymour.html (5306 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
		Though Catharine Parr Strickland’s life embraced nearly the entire 19th century and though she spent nearly 70 years in Canada, the roots of her values, beliefs, and interests belong to the rural Suffolk of her girlhood.
		Not long after her birth in Kent, her father, Thomas Strickland, retired as manager of the Greenland Docks on the Thames and removed his family to Norwich (in Norfolk), hoping to reduce his business involvements and to find a more congenial climate for his family and for the gout from which he suffered.
		Among the tributes Catharine Parr Traill received in her later years were recognition by historical societies in Toronto and Peterborough, a pension from the Royal Literary Fund in England, and a testimonial organized by her old friend Sir Sandford Fleming*, which brought her $1,000 in 1898.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=40570 (3484 words)

	Henry VII, his Wives and Edward VI
		This was not the end of his marriages though; he ended up marrying once more to a Katharine Parr in 1543.
		Since she was his elder and knew a few things about ruling places, she helped him rule England.
		Katharine gave birth to lots of children but sadly only Mary survived.
	www.lakesideschool.org /studentweb/worldhistory/reformation/HenryVIIhisWivesandEdwardVI.htm (1306 words)

	This is Bradford \| News
		The castle at Snape is not normally open to view but you can catch some of the flavour of the storied stones by visiting the local Anglican church which is set in part of the range of buildings and is itself a notable destination.
		The castle has special memories for me. Many years ago I slept in a room that was reputedly haunted by Katharine Parr, the last of the wives of Henry VIII.
		She was, as you will recall, the only one of Henry’s wives to survive him on his death in 1547 and she subsequently married Lord Latimer, who owned Snape.
	www.thisisbradford.co.uk /bradford__district/bradford/news/dales14.html (891 words)

	Studies from Court and Cloister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Katharine was beheaded on the 13th October 1542, on the same spot on the Tower Green where Anne Boleyn had been executed.
		Katharine undoubtedly intended to become his wife, but as she afterwards wrote, her "will was over-ruled by a higher power."
		Wriothesley, in forwarding this letter from the queen, Lord Parr's "gracious lady and kind sister," doubts not but that he will thank God, and frame himself to be more and more an ornament to Her Majesty.
	www.blackmask.com /books64c/stdsf.htm (15992 words)

	Hugglebunny: Writing: Henry VIII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Katherine staunchly stood by her statement that, as Lofts says, “she and Arthur had lived, very fondly, but as brother and sister” (91).
		It was speculation which brought Katharine of Aragon to queenship and then removed her from it.
		But Henry’s feelings, Lofts says, were “made fairly plain by the fact that he married her as soon as the conventional period of mourning for his father was ended” (94).
	www.hugglebunny.com /writing/henryviii.php (2237 words)

	Richard III Problematics of Tudor Bastardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Conceived while Henry was still married to Katharine (Cranmer in mid-1533 declared Henry's marriage to Katharine null), Elizabeth was born only seven months after Henry's and Anne's secret marriage.
		Elizabeth remained an official bastard throughout Mary's reign, especially once the new queen proclaimed in October 1553 that she was the legitimate daughter of Henry's lawful marriage to Katharine of Aragon.
		This, too, was one of Henry VIII's arguments that his marriage with Katharine of Aragon was bigamous and his child of that union a bastard.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/hunt.htm (7265 words)

	Women Writers Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Access to Women Writers Online is available to paid subscribers through a web-based interface.
		As of August 2005 Women Writers Online contains over 230 texts dating from 1526 to 1850 by over 110 authors, including Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish, Queen Elizabeth I, Margaret Fell, Felicia Hemans, Katharine Parr, and Mary Sidney.
		List of texts available in printed form (some of which are not available online)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Women_Writers_Project (211 words)

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		Death of Henry VIII., 1547.] Katharine Parr, the fifth and last wife, and an ardent Protestant and reformer, also narrowly escaped, and would undoubtedly at last have gone to the block.
		But while Mary, daughter of Katharine, the most pious and best of mothers, had left only a great blood-spot upon the page of History, Elizabeth's reign was to be the most wise, prosperous and great, the Kingdom had ever known.
		In her complex character there was the imperiousness, audacity and unscrupulousness of her father, the voluptuous pleasure-loving nature of her mother, and mingled with both, qualities which came from neither.
	public.planetmirror.com /pub/pg/etext04/vlmpr10.txt (21385 words)

	Anglican Theological Review: Five Women of the English Reformation
		It is popular history and should be so evaluated, for this genre often provides a useful introduction to a period, as well as an appetizing first course to more substantial repasts.
		In fact two, Askew and Parr, have been the subjects of recent critical studies.
		Zahl follows the repeated format of touching upon "her life in brief," "her theology," "the texts," and "interpretation." Most effective are Zahl's descriptions of primary texts by, or occasionally about, each woman.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3818/is_200307/ai_n9265057 (565 words)

	eBay.co.uk - parr, Dolls, Postcards, Non-Fiction Books items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Marriage Cert: Parr and Weston, Newbury, Berkshire, 1899
		1906 postcard of Benny Parr Wood BATLEY Yorkshire..
		CC 322 Nan Goldin Jack Pierson Martin Parr Robert Frank
	search.ebay.co.uk /parr_W0QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ3QQsascsZ1 (377 words)

	HERBERT (FAMILY) - Online Information article about HERBERT (FAMILY)
		gentleman " contracted to marry Katharine the daughter of King Richard III., but her See also:
		Parr and thus in 1543 became nearly allied to the king, who made him one of the executors of his will.
		The earldom of Pembroke was revived for him in 1551.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HEG_HIG/HERBERT_FAMILY_.html (1414 words)

	Who Was Who
		She is buried with Henry in Windsor Castle.
		Brother of Edward and Jane Seymour, and fourth husband of Katharine Parr.
		Stepdaughter of Katherine Parr, and her chief Lady in waiting.
	www.elizabethi.org /uk/who/n-z.html (1353 words)

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