User:Lady Meg

Portrait of Katherine Parr. For many years thought to represent Lady Jane Grey, the painting has recently been re-identified as Katherine Parr, with whose name it was originally associated. The full-length format was very rare in portraits of this date, and was usually used only for very important sitters. Lady Jane Grey, although of royal blood, was a relatively obscure child of eight when this was painted; it was to be another eight years before her disastrous and short-lived reign. The distinctive crown shaped jewel which the sitter wears can be traced to an inventory of jewels belonging to Katherine Parr and the cameo beads appear to have belonged to Catherine Howard, from whom they would have passed to her successor as queen.

The "Melton Constable Portrait" of Queen Katherine Parr. According to the website "Some Grey Matter", this portrait owned by Lord Hastings and now at Seaton Delaval, Norfolk, is a seventeenth-century copy of a sixteenth-century original formerly in the Royal Collection but lost in the dispersals of 1651-52. Though long thought to depict Jane Grey, it has recently been relabeled by the National Trust as Katherine Parr.

Portrait long thought to be Katherine Parr at Lambeth Palace; it is now re-identified as Henry's first wife, Queen Katherine of Aragon

Purpose of being on Wiki

I have spent years now researching and reading the history of England with the Plantagenet/Tudor dynasties as my main focus. Over the years my focus has become smaller and has landed upon Henry VIII's last wife and queen consort, Katherine Parr.

While on a public family tree site I noticed that people were starting to copy each others trees, not checking sources or even the dates of the people in question. I saw people who did not have children suddenly have children that linked back to the home person(the person who made the tree). For example, Margaret Tudor of England who married James of Scotland is on someones tree married to a person with the last name of Tilley making her children Tilley's instead of the next generation of Stuarts, as us historical people know. You then have people such as Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Cleves, who was childless, who now have children that somehow descend to people now living in America. The fact that people are out there adding people who do not exist or are not descendants of these historical figures is appalling. I am interested in putting up more information of what I know and have researched onto Wiki so that when or if people decide to stop taking other people's trees for the truth that they might be able to find the right information elsewhere, ie, Wiki.

Favorite Historical Figures

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  Katherine Parr, queen consort of England and Ireland
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  Queen Katherine of Aragon
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  Mary I of England
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  Lady Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
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  Lady Anne of Warwick, queen consort of England
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  Margaret of Anjou, queen consort of England
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  Isabella of France
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  Juana I, Queen of Castile
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  Eleanor of Aquitaine
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  Portrait thought to be the sister of Queen Katherine, Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke
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  Mary [Stuart], Queen of Scots
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  Lady Margaret Beaufort
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  Elizabeth Woodville
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  Saint Margaret of Scotland, Queen consort of Scotland
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  Saint Elisabeth, Princess of Hungary
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  My favorite portrait of Elizabeth I of England
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  Saint Cecilia, patron saint of Musicians
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  Catherine of Alexandria
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  Queen Victoria

My Photos

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Pages created

Though they will ultimately be edited over and over again over the next few years.. I started these pages and original copies are on my blog.

• Elizabeth FitzHugh, Lady Parr and later Lady Vaux (paternal grandmother of Queen Catherine Parr)
• Lady Alice Neville, Lady FitzHugh (paternal great-grandmother of Queen Catherine Parr)
• Sir Thomas Green (maternal grandfather of Queen Catherine Parr)
• Sir Edward Burgh (first husband of Queen Catherine Parr)
• Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh (d.1496) (great-grandfather of Sir Edward Burgh, first husband of Queen Catherine Parr. Also father to Elizabeth Burgh, wife to Richard FitzHugh, 6th Lord FitzHugh; great-uncle of Queen Catherine Parr)
• Francesco del Balzo, 1st Duke of Andria (maternal great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth Woodville)

Redone

• Lady Mary Bentinck
• Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh

Links

• TudorQueen6: The Life of Queen Katherine Parr
• Facebook: Catherine Parr, Queen of England and Ireland

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Mae'r defnyddiwr hwn yn Gymro/Gymraes

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