Description: EXTRA INFOPHOTO SUDELEY - TOMB OF KATHERINE PARR (1512-1548) KATHERINE (OR CATHERINE KATHRYN KATHRYNE ETC.) PARR WAS BORN IN 1512 MOST LIKELY IN BLACKFRIARS LONDON RATHER THAN AT HER FAMILYS ANCESTRAL HOME IN WESTMORLAND.IN 1543 SHE BECAME THE SIXTH AND FINAL WIFE OF THE BY-THEN DECREPIT AND OBESE HENRY VIII. THIS WAS HER THIRD MARRIAGE HER TWO FORMER HUSBANDS SIR EDWARD BURGH AND JOHN NEVILLE LORD LATIMER BOTH HAVING DIED.KATHERINE WAS APPARENTLY A VERY EFFECTIVE QUEEN CONSORT PROFICIENTLY ACTING AS REGENT IN HENRYS ABSENCE. WHEN HENRY DIED IN 1547 SHE HAD HOPED AND EXPECTED TO BE NAMED AS REGENT AND ADVISOR TO THE YOUNG EDWARD VI HOWEVER THE QUIXOTIC HENRY HAD MADE OTHER ARRANGEMENTS AND KATHERINE WAS SIDELINED.KATHERINE MOVED TO SUDELEY AND MARRIED THE MAN SHE HAD LONG DESIRED THOMAS SEYMOUR. HER NEW HUSBAND WAS AMBITIOUS AND RASH AND NO DOUBT CONSIDERED HIS MARRIAGE TO KATHERINE AS A FINE POLITICAL MOVE. SADLY KATHERINE DIED WITHIN A YEAR SOON AFTER GIVING BIRTH TO A DAUGHTER - THIS DAUGHTER HAS MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED FROM HISTORY AND NO-ONE KNOWS HER FATE THOUGH IT IS BELIEVED THAT SHE SURVIVED INFANCY AT LEAST.THOMAS SEYMOUR WITH A FEMALE HEIR AND A DEAD WIFE LEFT SUDELEY NEVER TO RETURN NOT EVEN FOR HIS WIFES FUNERAL.KATHERINE WAS INTERRED IN THE PRIVATE CHAPEL - OR SMALL CHURCH - ON THE ESTATE. DURING THE CIVIL WAR IN THE MID C17TH THE CHURCH WAS DAMAGED BY CROMWELLS TROOPS AND EVENTUALLY BECAME RUINOUS. KATHERINES TOMB WAS EFFECTIVELY LOST AND FORGOTTEN.IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE MID C18TH THAT TWO LADIES VISITING THE ROMANTIC RUINS OF THE CASTLE LOOKED IN ON THE REMAINS OF THE CHURCH AND NOTICED A CARVED STONE. THEY REQUESTED THAT THIS BE INVESTIGATED AND SOON A TOMB WAS REDISCOVERED WITH A PLAQUE ON IT STATING IT BELONGED TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND KATHERINE PARR.ON OPENING THE LEAD SARCOPHAGUS KATHERINE WAS FOUND TO BE ALMOST PERFECTLY PRESERVED. HOWEVER ONCE AIR GOT INTO THE COFFIN DECAY COMMENCED AND BY THE TIME OF HER REBURIAL IN THE MID C19TH HER BODY HAD BECOME LITTLE MORE THAN DUST AND BONES. SHE WAS RE-INTERRED IN THE FINE TOMB WHICH CAN BE FOUND IN THE CHURCH TODAY WITH AN EFFIGY BY J.B. PHILIP RESTING ON A MARBLE CHEST TOMB.TO SEE THE CHURCH 2015 COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) ROB FARROW PHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS NOTES REF NO RFV-2534 PHOTO SIZE SIZE 6 X 4 inches CONDITION: SOME CROPPING OR WHITE LINES TOP/BOTTOM MAY OCCUR DUE TO PHOTO RATIO WATERMARK IF PRESENT ON THE IMAGE WILL NOT APPEAR ON ITEM SENT TO YOU: NOTES This is a print and supply service for an image that is COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) Rob Farrow obtained from GEOGRAPH and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License MANY OTHER ITEMS ARE BEING ADDED TO MY SHOP DAILY
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Type: Photographs
Theme: Topographical
Sub-Theme: England
Number of Items: Single
Period: 1945 - Present
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