Baron Parr is in Baronies of England Alphabetically.
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1539. William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton [aged 27] created.
28th October 1571. Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 38] extinct.
In 1539 William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton [aged 27] was created 1st Baron Parr of Kendal.
On 28th October 1571 William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton [aged 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 [aged 38]. Marquess Northampton and Earl Essex, Baron Parr of Kendal extinct.
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23rd December 1543. William Parr 1st Baron Parr of Horton [aged 60] created. See Parr Family Ennobled.
10th September 1547. William Parr 1st Baron Parr of Horton extinct.
On 23rd December 1543 Henry VIII [aged 52] enobled his new wife's [aged 31] brother [aged 31] and uncle [aged 60] at ceremony in the Presence Chamber, Hampton Court Palace [Map]. Henry Grey 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 26] and Edward Stanley 3rd Earl of Derby [aged 34] were present. Christopher Barker read the Patents.
William Parr 1st Baron Parr of Horton was created 1st Baron Parr of Horton. William was sixty with five daughters. He died four years later at which time the Barony became extinct.
William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton was created 1st Earl Essex. His estranged wife Anne Bourchier 7th Baroness Bourchier [aged 26] was daughter of the last Earl of Essex of the Fifth Creation. A somewhat curious choice given his wife had eloped the year previous year with John Lyngfield, the prior of Tandbridge, Surrey [Map], by whom she had an illegitimate child.
On 10th September 1547 William Parr 1st Baron Parr of Horton [aged 64] died. He was buried at Horton, Northamptonshire. Baron Parr of Horton extinct.