Sir Thomas Parr, Kt., of Kendall

Thomas Parr (d.1464)

Sir Thomas Parr (1407– November 1464[1][2] or 24 November 1464[3]) 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.

The Parr family originally came from Parr, Lancashire. Sir Thomas's grandfather, Sir William de Parre (died 1405), son of Sir John de Parre, lord of Parr; married, in 1383, Elizabeth, daughter of John de Ros, and granddaughter and heiress of Sir Thomas de Ros, Baron of Kendal.

Sir Thomas was the son of Sir John Parr and Agnes Crophull (or Crophill) (c.1371/72-3 February 1438).[3] By his mother's previous marriage to Sir Walter Devereux of Weobley, he was the maternal half-brother of Elizabeth and Walter Devereux, Esq., the great-grandfather of Anne Devereux who married William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1468 creation) and the 5x great-grandfather of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex.[3] His father died before 6 October 1407[3] and when his mother remarried to John Merbury, Esq.[3] he was made the ward of Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Sometime around 1413 [4] he married Alice Tunstall, the daughter of Sir Thomas.[4]

Within a year of his coming of age Thomas was escheator of Cumberland and Westmorland, and was knighted about the same time. He was elected Member of Parliament for Westmorland five times (in 1435, 1449, 1450, 1455 and 1459) and once for Cumberland (1445). He was actively involved in local administration and law enforcement, and became very influential. In 1435 he acted as the Under-sheriff for Thomas, 8th Baron Clifford, the hereditary sheriff of Westmorland.

He became involved in a long-running feud with Sir Henry Bellingham, another local landowner, which came to a head in 1445 when he was attacked in London by Bellingham's men when attending Parliament, which caused a Parliamentary outcry.

By the time of the War of the Roses, Parr had formed close links with leading Yorkist Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and when hostilities began joined him at the Battle of Ludford Bridge near Ludlow in 1459. After a Yorkists were defeated, he was forced to flee to Calais with Salisbury and was attainted in Parliament, but returned to fight at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460.

He died in 1461.

He left three sons and six daughters. His eldest son, William became elevated as Baron Parr and married a granddaughter of the Earl of Salisbury, Hon. Elizabeth FitzHugh, and by her was grandfather of Queen Catherine, wife of Henry VIII; his second son, Sir John Parr was made sheriff of Westmorland for life in 1462. His third son, Thomas, was killed at the Battle of Barnet in 1471. His daughters all married members of prominent northern families. Mabel married Humphrey Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre; thus becoming the first female Parr to marry into the peerage and be given a title.[2] The accession of the Yorkist King Edward IV in 1461 had saved most of Sir Thomas's estates from confiscation.

Through his son William, the family continued in favour with the culmination of his granddaughter, Catherine, becoming Queen consort of England and Ireland to King Henry VIII in 1543. His other grandchildren and the siblings of Queen Catherine would be raised by being created Marquess of Northampton and Earl of Essex; while a granddaughter, Anne, would become Countess of Pembroke as the wife of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke of the 1551 creation. Anne's descendants to this day hold the title of Earl of Pembroke among other prominent titles.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Parr_(d.1461)

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• Sir Thomas Parr, Sheriff of Westmorland, Escheator of Cumberland & Westmorland1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
• M, #33675, b. 7 October 1406, d. 24 November 1464
• Father Sir John Parr2,9,10,7,11 b. c 1383, d. b 6 Oct 1407
• Mother Agnes Crophull2,9,10,7,11 b. c 1372, d. 3 Feb 1436
• Sir Thomas Parr, Sheriff of Westmorland, Escheator of Cumberland & Westmorland was born on 7 October 1406 at of Kirkby-Kendal, Westmoreland, England; Age 21 in 1427.2,5,7 He married Alice Tunstall, daughter of Sir Thomas Tunstall, Justice of the Peace for Westmorland and Isabel Harrington, circa 1430; They had 3 sons (Sir William; Sir John; & Thomas) and 6 daughters (Margaret, wife of Sir Thomas Radclyffe; Anne, wife of William Harington; Elizabeth, wife of Sir Christopher Moresby; Agnes, wife of Sir Thomas Strickland; Mabel, wife of Sir Humphrey, 2nd Lord Dacre of the North; & Eleanor, wife of Sir Henry Agard).2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Sir Thomas Parr, Sheriff of Westmorland, Escheator of Cumberland & Westmorland died on 24 November 1464 at age 58.2,5,7
• Family Alice Tunstall
• Children
  • Agnes Parr+12,2,13,5,14,7
  • Elizabeth Parr+2 b. c 1432, d. 15 Apr 1513
  • Sir William Parr, Sheriff of Westmoreland+15,5,7 b. c 1434, d. c 26 Feb 1484
  • Margaret Parr2 b. c 1435
  • Mabel Parr+16,2,4,5,6,7 b. c 1441, d. 14 Nov 1508
• Citations
• 1.[S10474] Unknown author, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 39, 76.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 565.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 3.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 18.
• 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 298.
• 6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 374.
• 7.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 304.
• 8.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 249.
• 9.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 2.
• 10.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 297-298.
• 11.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 248.
• 12.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 188.
• 13.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 406.
• 14.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 110.
• 15.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 565-566.
• 16.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 251.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1121.htm#... ____________________
• Sir Thomas Parr
• M, #3348, b. 1407, d. 24 November 1464
• Last Edited=24 Feb 2009
• Sir Thomas Parr was born in 1407.1 He was the son of Sir John Parr and Agnes Crophill. He married Alice Tunstall, daughter of Sir Thomas Tunstall and Eleanor Harrington.2 He died on 24 November 1464.1
• He lived at Kendal, Westmorland, England.3
• Child of Sir Thomas Parr
  • 1.Mabel Parr+3
• Children of Sir Thomas Parr and Alice Tunstall
  • 1.Sir William Parr+ b. c 1434, d. b 26 Feb 1483/84
  • 2.Agnes Parr+4 b. c 1443, d. c 1490
• Citations
• 1.[S79] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004), page 565. Hereinafter cited as Plantagenet Ancestry.
• 2.[S79] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, page 249.
• 3.[S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 1013. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• 4.[S125] Richard Glanville-Brown, online <e-mail address>, Richard Glanville-Brown (RR 2, Milton, Ontario, Canada), downloaded 17 August 2005.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p335.htm#i3348 _______________________________
• Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
• Born: ABT 1411
• Died: 1464
• Notes: Attainted at Coventry, 38 Henry VI.
• Father: John PARR of Kendal
• Mother: Agnes CROPHULL
• Married: Alice TUNSTALL (dau. of Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland Castle and Eleanor Fitzhugh)
• Children:
  • 1. William PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
  • 2. Mabel PARR (B. Dacre of the North)
  • 3. Agnes PARR
  • 4. John PARR (Sir Sheriff of Westmoreland)
  • 5. Thomas PARR
  • 6. Margaret PARR
  • 7. Anne PARR
  • 8. Elizabeth PARR
  • 9. Eleanor PARR
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PARR1.htm#Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)1 ________________________________
• Links
• http://www.swgdezign.com/wirtgriesbach/images/parr.pdf
• http://www.british-history.ac.uk/kendale-barony/vol2/pp266-273

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• Thomas Parr Find A Grave Memorial

Birth: Oct. 7, 1406
Death: Nov. 24, 1464
Burial: Holy Trinity Church Kendal South Lakeland District Cumbria, England

Knight of Kirkby-Kendal and Parr, Westmorland. Knight of the Shire for Westmorland, Sheriff of Cumberland.

Husband of Alice Tunstall.

Family links:

Spouse: Alice Tunstall Parr 1405–1490 (m. 1432

Children:

Sir William Parr 1434 - 1484

 Agnes Parr Strickland     1447–1490

 Lady Mabel Parr Dacre (____ - 1508)

Created by: Todd Whitesides Record added: Feb 09, 2017 Find A Grave Memorial# 176185241