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Image:Catherine Parr.jpg. 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.]]

Image:Queen Catherine Parr.jpg

Image:Catherine_of_Aragon_Portrait_at_Lambeth_Palace.jpg 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

Image:Catherine_Parr_from_NPG.jpg|Katherine Parr, queen consort of England and Ireland

Image:Michel Sittow 002.jpg|Queen Katherine of Aragon

Image:Mary I by Master John.jpg|Mary I of England

Image:Cecily neville.jpg|Lady Cecily Neville, Duchess of York

Image:Anne Neville portrait.jpg|Lady Anne of Warwick, queen consort of England

Image:MargaretAnjou.jpg|Margaret of Anjou, queen consort of England

Image:Isabella of France.jpg|Isabella of France

Image:Meister der Magdalenenlegende 002.jpg|Juana I, Queen of Castile

Image:Engraving of Eleanor of Aquitaine (19th Century).jpg|Eleanor of Aquitaine

Image:Anne_Parr.jpg|Portrait thought to be the sister of Queen Katherine, Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke

Image:Mary Stuart Queen.jpg|Mary [Stuart], Queen of Scots

Image:Lady Margaret Beaufort from NPG.jpg|Lady Margaret Beaufort

Image:ElizabethWoodville.JPG|Elizabeth Woodville

Image:StMargareth edinburgh castle2.jpg|Saint Margaret of Scotland, Queen consort of Scotland

Image:Elisabeth elisabeth05.jpg|Saint Elisabeth, Princess of Hungary

Image:Elizabeth I Rainbow Portrait.jpg|My favorite portrait of Elizabeth I of England

Image:St cecilia guido reni.jpg|Saint Cecilia, patron saint of Musicians

Image:Carlo Crivelli 014.jpg|Catherine of Alexandria

Image:The Young Queen Victoria.jpg|Queen Victoria

My Photos

Image:Tomb of Katherine Parr.png

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)

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References

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