Catherine Parr, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Queen Consort of Henry VIII
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001
Place of Birth: Kendal, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 07-Sep-1548
Profession: writer, lady-in-waiting
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Catherine Parr
- Catherine Parr (sometimes alternatively spelled Katherine, Katheryn, Kateryn or Katharine) (1512 – 5 September 1548) was queen consort of England and Ireland (1543–47) as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII, and the final queen consort of the House of Tudor.
- She married him on 12 July 1543, and outlived him by one year.
- With four husbands she is the most-married English queen. Catherine enjoyed a close relationship with Henry's three children and was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth I and Edward VI.
- She was influential in Henry's passing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, to the line of succession to the throne.Catherine was appointed regent from July to September 1544 while Henry was on a military campaign in France and in case he lost his life, she was to rule as regent until Edward came of age.
- However he did not give her any function in government in his will.
- In 1543, she published her first book, Psalms or Prayers, anonymously.
- On account of Catherine's Protestant sympathies, she provoked the enmity of anti-Protestant officials, who sought to turn the King against her; a warrant for her arrest was drawn up in 1545.
- However, she and the King soon reconciled.
- Her book Prayers or Meditations became the first book published by an English queen under her own name.
- She assumed the role of Elizabeth's guardian following the King's death, and published a second book, The Lamentation of a Sinner. Henry died on 28 January 1547.
- After the king's death, Catherine was allowed to keep the queen's jewels and dresses as queen dowager.
- About six months after Henry's death, she married her fourth and final husband, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.
- The marriage was short-lived, as she died on Wednesday, 5 September 1548 due to complications of childbirth.
- Parr's funeral was held on 7 September 1548.
- Parr's funeral was the first Protestant funeral held in English in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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