Maud Lane born Magdalen (Maud) Parr became Matilda or Maud, Lady Lane (1507 – 1558) was an

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courtier. She was the cousin of

Katherine 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 ...

and she became her courtier and supporter of the new Church of England religion.

Life

She was the first born daughter of Mary (Salisbury) and

William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton (c. 1483 – 10 September 1547Douglas Richardson. ''Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families,'' 2nd Edition, 2011. pg 663.) was the son of Sir William Parr and his second wife, the Ho ...

. Her grandfather was Sir William Salisbury and his mother's dowry had been the Manor of Horton Her godfather was her uncle, the father of Catherine Parr. Maud grew up with her cousin

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 ...

. Her father decided to make her his sole heir when she was about ten. She had three younger sisters, but no brother. She was engaged to be married to the eight year old Ralph Lane Her father became the guardian to the couple and her new father in law was William Lane of Orlingbury. The marriage was to be consecrated ten years later when her fiance was eighteen. Her father ceased to be their guardian as promised when her husband was twenty, Catherine Parr became the last queen consort of

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and Maud became her lady-in-waiting in July 1543. Maud paid £980 to have the rights of ownership and to pass on the rights to the two manors of

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in Buckinghamshire and Wheatley in Warwickshire. In 1546 Bishop Stephen Gardiner led a conservative plot to discredit Lane. The plan was to find evidence of her heresy but the plot failed and plans to kidnap the queen and two of her ladies were not enacted. Gardiners position was reduced by this. One source says that she continued to be a lifelong friend and confidante of the queen, but another says that Lane left the royal court and died in 1558 or 1559.

Private life

She and Sir Ralph Lane of Orpington had three sons: politician Robert Lane was born in 1527,

Ralph Ralph (pronounced ; or ,) is a male given name of English, Scottish and Irish origin, derived from the Old English ''Rædwulf'' and Radulf, cognate with the Old Norse ''Raðulfr'' (''rað'' "counsel" and ''ulfr'' "wolf"). The most common forms ...

(later

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), and MP

William Lane William Lane (6 September 1861 – 26 August 1917) was an English-born journalist, author, advocate of Australian labour politics and a utopian socialist ideologue. Lane was born in Bristol, England into an impoverished family. After showin ...

. Their seven girls included Frances who married Sir George Turpin, Lettice who married

Peter Wentworth Sir Peter Wentworth (1529–1596) was a prominent Puritan leader in the Parliament of England. He was the elder brother of Paul Wentworth and entered as member for Barnstaple in 1571. He later sat for the Cornish borough of Tregony in 1578 and ...

, Mary who married Thomas Pigot) Jane who married first the MP

Lewis Montgomery Lewis Montgomery (died 1568), of Ecton, Northamptonshire, was an English politician. Family Montgomery was the first husband of Jane Lane; they had no surviving children and his heirs were his siblings. Education and career He was educated at G ...

and second Thomas Bawde, Dorothy who married Sir William Fielding and Katherine who married John Osborne.

References

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