Maud Green, Lady Parr (6 April 1492 – 1 December 1531) was an English courtier. She was the mother of

Catherine Parr Catherine Parr (sometimes alternatively spelled Katherine, Katheryn, Kateryn, or Katharine; 1512 – 5 September 1548) was Queen of England and Ireland as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 12 July 1543 until ...

, the sixth wife of King

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. She was a close friend and

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. She was also co-heiress to her father, Sir Thomas Green of Green's Norton in

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along with her sister, Anne, Lady Vaux.

Life

Maud was born on 6 April 1492 in

, the daughter of

Sir Thomas Green Sir Thomas Green (c.1461 – 9 November 1506) was a member of the English gentry who died in the Tower of London, where he had been imprisoned for treason. He is best known as the grandfather of Catherine Parr, last wife of King Henry VIII of En ...

, of Boughton and Green's Norton, and Jane Fogge, daughter of Sir John Fogge. Her mother died when she was an infant. She became a

, the first wife of King

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sometime after 11 June 1509. She was in constant attendance upon the Queen and was allocated her own rooms at Court on a permanent basis.Martienssen, page18 It is thought that Maud may have named her daughter

Catherine Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christ ...

after

, who was also made godmother to the child.

Education

Maud was a very intelligent and well-educated woman; she was also fluent in French and was lauded as an excellent teacher by her peers.Martienssen, page 7.

Marriage

Maud had married

Sir Thomas Parr Sir Thomas Parr (c. 1483 – 11 November 1517) of Kendal in Westmorland (now Cumbria), England, was a courtier and is best known as the father of Queen Catherine Parr, the Wives of Henry VIII, sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII of England, ...

, the eldest son of Sir William Parr and

Elizabeth FitzHugh Elizabeth FitzHugh (1455/65 – before 10 July 1507) was an English noblewoman. She is best known for being the grandmother of Katherine Parr, sixth queen consort to Henry VIII, and her siblings Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and William Par ...

, in 1508 when she was about 16 years old. He was the

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, master of the wards and comptroller to the King. Maud and Thomas had three surviving children. Although Thomas Parr inherited properties in the north including

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, the Parr's resided at Parr House which was located on The

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. By the time Sir Thomas had inherited the castle, it was in need of repair and eventually became derelict. Parr and his wife were courtiers and stayed close to court. Thomas Parr died of the

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on 11 November 1517, leaving Maud a widow at the age of 25. She chose not to remarry for fear of jeopardizing the huge inheritance she held in trust for her children. She carefully supervised the education of her children and studiously arranged their marriages.

Issue

Before the birth of

, Maud gave birth to a son shortly after her marriage to Sir Thomas. The happiness was short lived as the baby quickly died and his name was never known. After the birth of their third child,

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, Maud again became pregnant c. 1517, the same year of Thomas' death. However, there is no subsequent mention of the child, so it was probably lost through a miscarriage, stillbirth, or death in early infancy.Linda Porter. Katherine, the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII. Macmillan. 2010. Surviving children of Maud Green: *

(1512 – 5 September 1548) who married four times: :* Sir Edward Burgh, 1529 at

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, England. :*

John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer (17 November 1493 – 2 March 1543) was an English peer. His third wife was Catherine Parr, later queen of England. Family John Neville, born 17 November 1493, was the eldest son of Richard Neville, 2nd Baron ...

, summer 1534 in London, Middlesex, England. :*King

, 12 July 1543 at

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in the Queen's Privy closet. :*

Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, KG, PC (20 March 1549) was a brother of Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII. With his brother, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector of England, he vied for control of ...

, late Spring 1547 and had one daughter: Lady Mary. * William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, 1st Earl of Essex (1513 – 28 October 1571), married three times, but produced no issue: :*

Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier Anne Bourchier (1517 – 28 January 1571) was the ''suo jure'' 7th Baroness Bourchier, ''suo jure'' Lady Lovayne, and Baroness Parr of Kendal. She was the first wife of William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, Earl of Essex, and the sister-i ...

in 1527. :* Elisabeth Brooke :* Helena Snakenborg *

Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Baroness Herbert of Cardiff ( Parr; 15 June 1515 – 20 February 1552) was lady-in-waiting to each of Henry VIII of England's six wives. She was the younger sister of his sixth wife, Catherine Parr. Early y ...

(15 June 1515 – 20 February 1552), married in 1538, William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke,Anne Parr, Lady Herbert
Peerage.com entry of Anne Parr, Lady Herbert. by whom she had two sons and a daughter:

Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, KG, KB (in or after 153819 January 1601) was a Welsh nobleman, peer and politician of the Elizabethan era. He was the nephew of Catherine Parr, and brother-in-law of Lady Jane Grey, through his first wife ...

(c. 1539-1601), Sir Edward Herbert (1547–1595), and Lady Anne Herbert (1550–1592). Image:Catherine_Parr_from_NPG.jpg, Queen

, sixth wife of

File:The Marquess of Northampton by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg, William Parr File:Hans Holbein the Younger - An unidentified woman RL 12256.jpg,

Ancestry

Death

Maud died on 1 December 1531 and is buried in St. Ann's Church,

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Church, London, England beside her husband. In her will, she left her daughter Catherine a jeweled cipher pendant in the shape of an 'M'.Susan E. James, ''Women's Voices in Tudor Wills'' (Ashgate, 2015), p. 86.

Notes

* Mike Ashley "''British Kings and Queens''", New York; Carroll and Graf Publishing Inc., 1998. * Anthony Martienssen "''Queen Katherine Parr''", McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973. pg 7, 17, 18, 29-39.

References

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