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Maud, Lady Parr
Close-up of Maud in a sketch of the Parr tomb at St. Anne's, Blackfriars Church.
Born6 April 1490/92
Northamptonshire, England
Died1 December 1531(1531-12-01) (aged 39)
BuriedBlackfriars Church, London, England
Noble family
  • Green (by birth)
  • Parr (by marriage)
Spouse(s)Sir Thomas Parr
IssueCatherine, Queen of England and Ireland
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton
Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke
FatherSir Thomas Green
MotherJoan Fogge
Drawing of the Parr tomb illustrating Maud Green, and her husband Sir Thomas Parr kneeling with their children at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, London which was later destroyed.

Maud Green, Lady Parr (6 April 1490/92 – 1 December 1531)[1] was an English courtier. She was the mother of Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII of England. She was a close friend and lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon. She was also co-heiress to her father, Sir Thomas Green of Green's Norton in Northamptonshire along with her sister, Anne, Lady Vaux.

Life

Maud was born on 6 April 1490[2][3] or, 1492 in Northamptonshire, the daughter of Sir Thomas Green, of Boughton and Green's Norton,[4] and Joan Fogge, daughter of Sir John Fogge.[5]

Her mother died when she was an infant. She became a lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of King Henry VIII 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.[6] It is thought that Maud may have named her daughter Catherine after Catherine of Aragon, 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.[7]

Marriage

Maud had married Sir Thomas Parr, the eldest son of Sir William Parr and Elizabeth FitzHugh, in 1508. He was the Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 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 Kendal Castle in Westmorland, the Parr's resided at Parr House which was located on The Strand in London. 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 sweating sickness on 11 November 1517, leaving Maud a widow. She chose not to remarry for fear of jeopardizing the huge inheritance she held in trust for her children.[6] She carefully supervised the education of her children and studiously arranged their marriages.[8]

Issue

Before the birth of Catherine, Maud gave birth to a son shortly after her marriage to Sir Thomas. The happiness was short lived as the baby quickly died. The baby's name is lost to history. After the birth of their third child, Anne, 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.[9]

Surviving children of Maud Green:

  • William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, 1st Earl of Essex (1513 – 28 October 1571), married three times, but produced no issue:

Ancestry

Death

Maud died on 1 December 1531 and is buried in St. Ann's Church, Blackfriars Church, London, England beside her husband.[17] In her will, she left her daughter Catherine a jeweled cipher pendant in the shape of an 'M'.[18]

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

  1. ^ James, Susan. "Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love". 2009. Pg 14.
  2. ^ "Maud Green (1490 - 1531): The Kingealogy".
  3. ^ "Maud (Matilda) Green - born 1490".
  4. ^ Anthony Martienssen "Queen Katherine Parr", page 17
  5. ^ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. pp. 290.
  6. ^ a b Martienssen, page18
  7. ^ Martienssen, page 7.
  8. ^ Martienssen, pages 29-39
  9. ^ a b c Linda Porter. Katherine, the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII. Macmillan. 2010.
  10. ^ James, Susan E. Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love, Gloucestershire, England: The History Press, 2009. pg 94.
  11. ^ Anne Parr, Lady Herbert Peerage.com entry of Anne Parr, Lady Herbert.
  12. ^ a b c d e Paget, Gerald. The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales- Vol. I. p. 95.
  13. ^ a b c Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. pp. 290
  14. ^ a b c d e Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families (Royal Ancestry). Genealogical Publishing Company (June 30, 2004).
  15. ^ a b Burke's Peerage. 1938. p. 2416.
  16. ^ Douglas Richardson. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. pp. 154-55.
  17. ^ James, page 17.
  18. ^ Susan E. James, Women's Voices in Tudor Wills (Ashgate, 2015), p. 86.
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