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Thomas Parr (MP for Westmorland)

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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.
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near Ludlow in 1459. After the Yorkists were defeated, he was forced to flee to Calais with Salisbury and was attainted in Parliament, but returned to fight at the
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Sir Thomas was the son of Sir John Parr of Kendal and Agnes Crophull (or Crophill) (c.1371/72-3 February 1436) By his mother's previous marriage to
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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
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Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011.
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in 1471. His daughters all married members of prominent northern families. Mabel married
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Katherine, the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII
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By the time of the War of the Roses, Parr had formed close links with leading Yorkist
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By Alice Tunstall, he left three sons and six daughters. His eldest son,
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six times between 1435 and 1459. He was great-grandfather of Queen
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in 1461 had saved most of Sir Thomas's estates from confiscation.
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five times (in 1435, 1449, 1450, 1455 and 1459) and once for
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William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1468 creation)
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