Maude Parr

"Maud Green was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Green of Green's Norton in Northamptonshire. She was married at around the age of 16 to Sir Thomas Parr, whilst her sister, Anne, was married to Sir Thomas Parr's step-father, Sir Nicholas Vaux.
Maud was appointed as a Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Katharine of Aragon. It was unusual for a knight's wife to be a Lady-in-Waiting, as opposed to a Gentlewoman of the Bedchamber, but perhaps the two women got on well, or it may have been in recognition of the fact that Sir Thomas was third cousin to the King. In between her duties at Court, Maud gave birth to three children who survived and a further two who did not.
On her widowhood in 1517, unusually, Maud did not remarry despite being no more than twenty-five. Instead, she took it upon herself to procure her family's advancement through the usual means of pleasing the King or through marriage. Maud seems to have enjoyed a harmonious relationship with her brother-in-law, Sir William Parr of Horton, and the two families lived together at Rye House. Maud is mentioned as being an excellent speaker of French, and the education she provided for not only her children but the other young men under her care, was considered of the first quality.
In 1520, she accompanied the King and Queen to France and was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
In 1522, Maud was assessed for a “loan" to the King for the French Wars, of 1,000 marks, a very substantial sum, the same as the amount provided by Lord Clifford. She appears in the various household accounts of Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon as entitled to breakfast at Crown expense and to suits of livery for her servants, as well as lodgings, which were very hard to come by.
In the mid-1520s she negotiated spiritedly with Lord Scrope for the marriage of her daughter Katherine to his heir, but failed in her objective. She then turned her attention to her son, William and managed to set him on a splendid path for advancement, first by finding him a place in the household of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond (Henry VIII's illegitimate son) in 1525 and second by arranging his marriage to Lady Anne Bourchier, only daughter of the Earl of Essex.
Maud remained in the service of Queen Katharine, but died, aged about forty on 1 st December 1531. In her Will, made in 1529 she gives donations to the orders of friars, and then requests the payments of the debts incurred for the marriages of her children. She then gives detailed instructions on bequests of jewellery to her daughters, including pictures of the King (Henry VIII) and Queen (Katharine of Aragon) to her daughter Katherine.
There is no monument in St Ann's Church, where Maud is buried, but according to Whitaker in his History of Richmondshire, in 1628, there was a monument in Holy Trinity, Kendal, to Maud and her husband, Sir Thomas, described as follows:
‘On a tomb, a man in armour kneeling; on his breast, argent two bars azure, within a bordure sable for Parr. On his wife's breast, quarterly first and fourth azure, three stags trippant or for Green; second and third gules, a chevron between three crosses botony or, on a chief a lion passant argent for Maplethorpe. About it was written, “Pray for the soul of Thomas Par, knight of king's body, Henry the VIII., master of his wardes....and sher(iff of Northamptonshire)..who deceased the 11th day of Nov. in the 9th year of the reign of our said sovereign lord at London, in the .... Fryers, as his tomb doth record.”’
[https://www.tudortimes.co.uk/people/maud-green-1]

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Maud, Lady Parr was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife. Her daughter Catherine, reputedly named for Catherine of Aragon, was to become Henry VIII's last wife.

He married MAUD GREENE 1508, daughter of THOMAS GREENE and JANE FOGGE. She was born 1494 in Green Norton, Northamptonshire, England, and died December 01, 1531 in England. Children of SIR PARR and MAUD GREENE are:

9. i. EARL OF ESSEX WILLIAM6 PARR, b. August 14, 1513, Kendall, Westmoreland, England; d. October 28,1571, Warwick, Warwickshire, England.

10. ii. ANNE PARR, b. June 15, 1529; d. February 20, 1550/51.

11. iii. KATHERINE PARR, b. 1512, Kendal Castle, Kendal, Westmoreland, England; d. September 05, 1548,

Sudeley Castle, County Gloucestershire, England.

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"Parr, Maud Greene (1495–1529)
English noblewoman. Name variations: Maud Greene or Green. Born Maud Green or Greene in 1495; died in 1529; daughter of Sir Thomas Green or Greene of Northamptonshire; married Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal; children:Catherine Parr (1512–1548, last queen of Henry VIII): William Parr, marquess of Northampton;Anne Parr (d. 1552)."
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" According to the Tudor Times, she was:
the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Green of Green's Norton in Northamptonshire. She was married at around the age of 16 to Sir Thomas Parr, whilst her sister, Anne, was married to Sir Thomas Parr's step-father, Sir Nicholas Vaux.
Maud was appointed as a Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Katharine of Aragon. It was unusual for a knight's wife to be a Lady-in-Waiting, as opposed to a Gentlewoman of the Bedchamber, but perhaps the two women got on well, or it may have been in recognition of the fact that Sir Thomas was third cousin to the King. In between her duties at Court, Maud gave birth to three children who survived and a further two who did not.
One of those three surviving children was Catherine Parr, whom Maud may have named after her mistress. She was widowed at age 25 and arranged the marriages of her son, William and daughters Catherine and Anne:
Maud remained in the service of Queen Katharine, but died, aged about forty on 1 st December 1531. In her Will, made in 1529 she gives donations to the orders of friars, and then requests the payments of the debts incurred for the marriages of her children. She then gives detailed instructions on bequests of jewelry to her daughters, including pictures of the King (Henry VIII) and Queen (Katharine of Aragon) to her daughter Katherine."
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"Maud Green, Lady Parr (6 April 1492 – 1 December 1531) 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 1492 in Northamptonshire, the daughter of Sir Thomas Green, of Boughton and Green's Norton, and Jane Fogge, daughter of Sir John Fogge.
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. 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.
Marriage
Maud had married Sir Thomas Parr, the eldest son of Sir William Parr and Elizabeth FitzHugh, in 1508 when she was about 16 years old. 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 at the age of 25. She chose not to remarry for fear of jeopardizing the huge inheritance she held in trust for her children. She carefully supervised the education of her children and studiously arranged their marriages.
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 and his name was never known. 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.
Surviving children of Maud Green:
Catherine Parr (1512 – 5 September 1548) who married four times:
Sir Edward Burgh, 1529 at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England.
John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, summer 1534 in London, Middlesex, England.
King Henry VIII, 12 July 1543 at Hampton Court Palace in the Queen's Privy closet.
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, late Spring 1547 and had one daughter: Lady Mary.
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, 1st Earl of Essex (1513 – 28 October 1571), married three times, but produced no issue:
Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier in 1527.
Elisabeth Brooke
Helena Snakenborg
Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke (15 June 1515 – 20 February 1552), married in 1538, William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke,[9] by whom she had two sons and a daughter: Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (c. 1539-1601), Sir Edward Herbert (1547–1595), and Lady Anne Herbert (1550–1592)."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Green]