Claire | September 5, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 5th September 1548, in the reign of King Edward VI, Catherine Parr, wife of Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, and widow of King Henry VIII, died at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire. Catherine had given birth to a daughter, Mary, six days earlier, and is thought to have died […]
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Claire | September 5, 2016
On this day in history, Wednesday 5th September 1548,”between two and three of the clock in the morning”, Catherine Parr, Queen Dowager, wife of Thomas Seymour, Baron Sudeley, and widow of Henry VIII, died at Sudeley Castle. She was only around thirty-six years of age and died of postpartum complications, probably puerperal fever, having given […]
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