Biography of Anne Parr Countess Pembroke 1515-1552

In 1508 [her father] Thomas Parr (age 25) and [her mother] Maud Green (age 15) were married. They were fifth cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.

On 28th January 1512 George Fitzhugh 7th Baron Fitzhugh (age 26) died without issue. Baron Fitzhugh abeyant between the descendants of Alice Fitzhugh (age 64) and Anne Parr Countess Pembroke.

On 15th June 1515 Anne Parr Countess Pembroke was born to [her father] Thomas Parr (age 32) and [her mother] Maud Green (age 23).

On 11th November 1517 [her father] Thomas Parr (age 34) died.

On 9th February 1527 [her brother] William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton (age 15) and [her sister-in-law] Anne Bourchier 7th Baroness Bourchier (age 10) were married. They lived apart for the first twelve years of their marriage. She the daughter of Henry Bourchier 2nd Earl Essex 3rd Count of Eu and Mary Saye Countess Essex and Eu (age 53). They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

In 1528 William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke (age 27) and Anne Parr Countess Pembroke (age 12) were married.

In 1529 [her brother-in-law] Edward Burgh and [her sister] Catherine Parr Queen Consort England (age 16) were married. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

On 1st December 1531 [her mother] Maud Green (age 39) died.

Around 1532 Hans Holbein The Younger (age 35). Portrait of [possibly] Anne Parr Countess Pembroke (age 16).

Around July 1534 [her brother-in-law] John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer (age 40) and [her sister] Catherine Parr Queen Consort England (age 21) were married. She by marriage Baroness Latimer of Snape. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

After 1538 [her son] Henry Herbert 2nd Earl Pembroke was born to [her husband] William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke (age 37) and Anne Parr Countess Pembroke (age 22). He married (1) his fourth cousin Catherine Grey Countess Hertford, daughter of Henry Grey 1st Duke of Suffolk and Frances Brandon Duchess of Suffolk (2) his third cousin once removed Catherine Talbot Countess Pembroke, daughter of George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury and Gertrude Manners Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford (3) his sixth cousin 21st April 1577 Mary Sidney Countess Pembroke and had issue.

In 1539 [her brother] William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton (age 27) was created 1st Baron Parr of Kendal.

On 17th April 1543 [her brother] William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton (age 31) and [her sister-in-law] Anne Bourchier 7th Baroness Bourchier (age 26) were divorced by an Act of Parliament and their children declared illegitimate.

Around 1547 [her son] Edward Herbert was born to [her husband] William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke (age 46) and Anne Parr Countess Pembroke (age 31) at Welshpool [Map]. He married before 1573 Mary Stanley and had issue.

Around May 1547 [her brother-in-law] Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour (age 39) and [her sister] Catherine Parr Queen Consort England (age 34) were married in secret only four months after the death of [her former brother-in-law] King Henry VIII of England and Ireland. They were sixth cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

In 1548 [her brother] William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton (age 36) and [her sister-in-law] Elisabeth Brooke Marchioness Northampton (age 21) were married. She by marriage Marchioness Northampton. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

On 5th September 1548 [her sister] Catherine Parr Queen Consort England (age 36) died from childbirth having given birth to her daughter [her niece] Mary Seymour six days before. She was buried at Sudeley Castle [Map]. William Harvey (age 38) as Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary was the only herald to attend her funeral.

In 1550 [her daughter] Anne Herbert was born to [her husband] William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke (age 49) and Anne Parr Countess Pembroke (age 34). She married her third cousin once removed Francis Talbot, son of George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury and Gertrude Manners Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford.

On 20th February 1552 Anne Parr Countess Pembroke (age 36) died at Baynard's Castle [Map]. She was buried at St Paul's Cathedral [Map].

After 20th February 1552 [her former husband] William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke (age 51) and Anne Talbot Countess Pembroke (age 28) were married. She by marriage Countess Pembroke. The difference in their ages was 22 years. She the daughter of George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury and Elizabeth Walden (age 61).

Henry Machyn's Diary. 28th February 1552. The xxviij day of Feybruarii was bered the nobull [lady the] contes of Penbroke (deceased), and syster to the [her sister] late qwyne and wyffe [to the] nobull Kyng Henry the viij. late kyng, and the good lade [the] contes of Penbroke the wyche she ded at Benard Castle [Map], and so cared unto Powlls. Ther was a C. [Note. 100] powre men and women had mantylle fryse gownes, then cam the haroldes, [then] the corse, and a-bowt her viij baners rolls of armes, and then cam the mornars boyth lordes and knyghts and gentyll men, and then cam the lades mornars and gentyll women mornars ij C. [then the] gentyll men and gentyll women, and after cam in cotts ij C. servandes and odur servandes, and she was bered by the tombe of [the duke] of Lankaster [Note. At St Paul's Cathedral [Map]], and after her banars wher sett up over her [and her] armes sett on dyvers pelers,-the vj King Edward vjth.

Note. Funeral of the countess of Pembroke. King Edward in his Diary records the death of the countess of Pembroke on the 20th Feb. 1551–2. As sister to queen Katharine Parr, she was a person of high consideration. A magnificent canopied monument to William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, and his countess Anne, with their recumbent effigies, and kneeling effigies of their three children, Henry earl of Pembroke, sir Edward Herbert knt. and Anne lady Talbot, was erected in St. Paul's cathedral, next the monument of John of Ghent, duke of Lancaster, and is represented in a plate of Dugdale's History of St. Paul's.

On 17th March 1570 [her former husband] William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke (age 69) died at Hampton Court Palace, Richmond [Map]. His son [her son] Henry (age 32) succeeded 2nd Earl Pembroke. [her daughter-in-law] Catherine Talbot Countess Pembroke (age 20) by marriage Countess Pembroke.

In May 1571 [her brother] William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton (age 59) and Helena Snakenbourg Marchioness Northampton (age 22) were married. She by marriage Marchioness Northampton. The difference in their ages was 37 years.

On 28th October 1571 [her brother] William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton (age 59) died at Warwick Priory, Warwickshire [Map]. He was buried in the Chancel of St Mary's Church, Warwick [Map]. His funeral was paid for by Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 38). Marquess Northampton and Earl Essex, Baron Parr of Kendal extinct.