Katherine Parr

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Standard Name: Parr, Katherine
Birth Name: Katherine Parr
Pseudonym: K. P.
Married Name: Katherine Borough
Married Name: Katherine Neville
Titled: Katherine Neville, Lady Latimer
Royal Name: Queen Katherine
Used Form: Catherine Parr
KP 's interventions in national and ecclesiastical history in the earlier sixteenth century, at the time of the Reformation (which were more far-reaching than has often been recognised), rested on her skill in writing and her faith in the educational power of reading. She produced (besides letters) religious writings: prayers and meditations.
Photograph of half-length portrait of Katherine Parr, painted on wood by an unknown artist. shown from the waist up. She wears a red dress with full sleeves, lavish gold stitching, and white frills at the cuff and standing collar. With this go three gold rings and a heavy gold necklace with pearls and gems. Her brown hair is covered by a white, pearl-edged headpiece and a soft black hat with gold stitching, a tassel, and a white feather. Her name is written in gold next to her face: "Katherine Parre". Natio

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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
Tyrwhit's collection of prayers is thought to date from the mid 1550s, and tradition suggests that it was written for the future Queen Elizabeth I during her imprisonment by her sister Queen Mary , but...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
Tyrwhit's prayers bring together, in cheerful ecumenicity, the Bible, the old Roman Catholic tradition of books of hours, and newer Lutheran and humanist influence, grafting new thinking onto an age-old tradition of piety...
Education Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
As an adult she belonged to a group around Queen Katherine Parr which amounted to a a women's bible-study group.
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
He came from a family which owned land at Kettleby in Lincolnshire. During the course of the marriage he held various court or official positions and added to his land holdings. He was a...
Occupation Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
Elizabeth Tyrwhit 's life at Court took a different turn after Katherine Parr 's marriage to Henry VIII (on 12 July 1543). She participated with the queen and a whole group of court ladies in...
politics Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
Lady Tyrwhit's fervent Protestantism was, at this date, a highly politicized position. She and her group of court ladies were hounded by highly-placed religious traditionalists, enemies of Katherine Parr , since the queen was well...
Friends, Associates Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny
Her family networks, too, were Protestant. Her parents were close friends and country neighbours of Katherine Brandon Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk (letter-writer, patron of women writers, friend and associate of Katherine Parr ). In 1563...
Reception Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny
It seems, then, that Lady Abergavenny was part-author of a book of prayers that went through seven editions between 1577 and 1626. In 1624 The Perfect Path to Paradise (called by the Oxford Dictionary of...

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