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, Hingham,

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, &c., in

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Life

He was the son of Alice Parker, 9th Baroness Morley, born Lovel (c. 1467–1518), and her husband Sir William Parker, who was privy counsellor and standard-bearer to

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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—maternal grandmother of

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—by whom he had one son, Sir Henry Parker, who was knighted at the coronation of

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/ref> and died in his father's lifetime. The son of Sir Henry Parker, Henry Parker, 11th Baron Morley, Henry, succeeded his grandfather as

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. Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley, had two daughters: Margaret, who married John Shelton, Jane, who married

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, the brother of

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's second wife,

. His son, Sir Henry Parker, married Elizabeth Calthorpe (1521 – 26 May 1578), the daughter and heiress of Sir Philip Calthorpe of Erwarton in Suffolk (1480 – 17 April 1549) and Amata Boleyn (c.1485 – 1543+), the aunt of Anne Boleyn. In 1523, he was sent as an ambassador to Germany to present the

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to Archduke Ferdinand (later

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). He was a man of literary attainments and translated some of the writings of

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and others into English. He was appointed Knight of the Bath on September 29, 1553. Henry Parker served on the jury for various treason trials during the reign of Henry VIII, including the trial of his son-in-law, George Boleyn, and that of George's sister, Queen Anne Boleyn. Of the six people executed in Anne Boleyn's downfall, Henry Parker had links with half of them.Catherine M. Helm-Clark, The Parker Family Tomb, The Tudor Society, 2016. p. 2

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