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Hace 3 días · In 1635 Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, was visiting one of his Shropshire estates and he heard all about the incredible man known as "Old Parr", then said to be 152 years old. The Earl decided to take him to London to see King Charles I , and Thomas left Shropshire never to return.
Sir Thomas Parr (1407 – November 1461 or 24 November 1464) was an English landowner and elected Member of Parliament six times between 1435 and 1459. He was great-grandfather of Queen Catherine Parr , the sixth wife of King Henry VIII .
When Sir Thomas Parr was born about 1476, in Kendal, Westmorland, England, his father, Sir William Parr, was 42 and his mother, Elizabeth FitzHugh, was 23. He married Maud Green in 1510, in Northamptonshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters.
Thomas "Old Tom" Parr (c. 1482 or 1483 (reputedly) – 13 November 1635) was an Englishman who was said to have lived for 152 years. A portrait of Parr hangs at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, with an inscription which reads "Thomas Parr died at the age of 152 years 19 days" "The old very old man or Thomas Parr, son of John Parr of Winnington in the Parish of Alberbury who was born in the ...
Sir Thomas was later noted by Roger Ascham as a scholar of Greek and Latin. Like many of the gentry and nobles in the early sixteenth century, Parr was heavily in debt to the Crown, owing some 9,000 marks to the king at Henry VII's death. Fortunately, this debt was cancelled by the new king, and an annuity of 50 marks was granted to him to ...
Maud Green, Lady Parr (6 April 1490/92 – 1 December 1531) [1] 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 ...
Show more. Born in Kendall, England on 1480 to Lord Nicholas of Harrowden, Vaux and Anne Greene. Sir Thomas Parr married Maud Green and had 1 child. He passed away on 11 Nov 1575 in Kendal Castle, Westmoreland, England, Great Britain.
