Death of Katherine
Parr
Today marks the death of
Katherine Parr in 1548. The sixth wife
of Henry VIII, she, along with Anne of Cleves, would unlike four other wives
survive him.
Henry had children by three of
his wives: Catherine of Aragon, Anne
Boleyn and Jane Seymour (wives 1, 2 and 3).
Catherine died of natural causes, Anne was rendered shorter by a head,
and Jane died of complications from childbirth.
Katherine Parr is one-half of the answer to a trick question - name the
two wives of Henry VIII to have died from complications of childbirth. After Henry’s death Katherine married Thomas
Seymour and for the first time in four marriages became pregnant. She died, however, in childbirth, the second
of Henry’s wives to do so.
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