Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley (1476/1480/14813 December 1553/1556), (notes to Parliamentary records show this as 25 November 1556) was an
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peer and translator, Lord of
Morley Morley may refer to:
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,
Hingham,
Hockering
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The parish has an area of [Norfolk
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. He was the son of
Alice Parker, 9th Baroness Morley
Baron Morley is an abeyant title in the Peerage of England. On 29 December 1299 William de Morley, lord of the manor of Morley Saint Botolph in Norfolk, was summoned to parliament and was thereby deemed to have become Baron Morley. At the death o ...
, née Lovel (c. 1467–1518) and her husband
Sir William Parker, who was Privy councillor and standard bearer to
King Richard III
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.
He married Alice St John, granddaughter of Sir John St John (1426–1498) and his wife Alice Bradshaigh, and thus a descendant of Sir Oliver St John and his wife
Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe, by whom he had one son,
Sir Henry Parker, who was knighted at the coronation of
Anne Boleyn
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and died in his father's lifetime. The son of Sir Henry Parker,
Henry
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, succeeded his grandfather as
Baron Morley
Baron Morley is an abeyant title in the Peerage of England. On 29 December 1299 William de Morley, lord of the manor of Morley Saint Botolph in Norfolk, was summoned to parliament and was thereby deemed to have become Baron Morley. At the death of ...
. Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley, had three daughters: Margaret, who married
John Shelton,
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, who married
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
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, the brother of
Henry VIII's second wife,
Anne Boleyn
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, and Alice, who married
Sir Thomas Barrington.
In 1523, he was sent as an ambassador to Germany to present the
Order of the Garter
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to Archduke Ferdinand (later
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
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). He was a man of literary attainments and translated some of the writings of
Plutarch
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,
Seneca
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Henry
Henry may refer to:
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