Margaret Radcliffe

Warning

Visitation of Westmoreland and Visitation of Northumberland both got her father wrong; it's Sir Thomas, not Sir William - unless Sir Thomas had an otherwise unknown brother by that name.

Margaret Parr

• Father: Sir Thomas Parr, of Kendall, b. 1405 
• Mother:  Alice Tunstall 

Married

1. Sir Thomas Radcliffe, of Derwentwater, son of Nicholas Radcliffe & Elizabeth

Children include  

1. Sir John Radcliffe, sheriff of Cumberland. Married Ann Fenwick.
2. Ellen Radcliffe. Married Sir Lancelot Threlkeld 
3. Sir Richard Radcliffe, KG. Died 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth. Married Agnes Scrope.
4. Sir Edward Radcliffe, of Dilston. Married Anne Cartington.
5. Elizabeth Radcliffe. Married James Strangeways.
6. Nicholas Radcliffe. Married Isabella, widow of Thomas Musgrave.
7. Christopher Radcliffe.
8. Rowland Radcliffe.
9. Thomasine Radcliffe. Married Richard Warcop.
10. Alice Radcliffe. Married Edward Musgrave.
11. Thomas Radcliffe.
12. Margaret Radcliffe.

Notes

Margaret was the great Aunt of Queen Katherine

From FAMILY OF QUEEN KATHERINE: PARENTAGE OF MARGARET PARR, LADY RADCLIFFE

There seems to be a lot of confusion as to the parentage of Margaret Parr, Lady Radcliffe. Several sources state that she was the daughter of Sir William Parr of Kendal Castle, an ancestor of Queen Katherine Parr. Others state that she was the daughter of Sir William Parr, Baron Parr of Kendal, grandfather of Queen Katherine Parr. This cannot be despite an entry in the D.N.B. stating that she is the aunt of Queen Katherine!

“His maternal grandfather’s connection with the court as comptroller of the household to Edward IV will no doubt explain the origin of Radcliffe’s intimacy with Richard of Gloucester. He and his uncle, John Parr, were knighted by the king on the field of Tewkesbury, and Gloucester made him a knight-banneret during the siege of Berwick in August 1482 (Paston Letters, iii. 9; Davies, p. 48).”

Sources for Margaret Parr (c.1440) being the sister of William Parr (born 1439; grandfather of Queen Katherine Parr); both children of Sir Thomas Parr and Alice Tunstall:

1. Edward Baines, William Robert Whatton, Brooke Herford, James Croston. “The history of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster,” Volume 5, J. Heywood, 1893. pg 20.
2. Douglas Richardson. “Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families“2nd Edition, 2011. pg 298.
3. Sir Bernard Burke. “A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire,” Harrison, 1866. pg 418.
4. Linda Porter. “Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII,” Macmillan, Nov 23, 2010.
5. Susan James. “Catherine Parr: Henry VIII’s Last Love,” History Press, Jan 1, 2009.

Through their son Sir Edward Radcliffe, they were ancestors to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mother of HM Queen Elizabeth II. [Source: John Burke, George Ormerod. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours, Volume 2, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1977.]

References

1.  Genealogics - Leo van de Pas cites
   1. The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald, Reference: Q 116522
   2. History of Northumberland 15 volumes .10:280
   3. Burke's Landed Gentry 1872 . 739
   4. The Book of the Radclyffes. Edinburgh, 1940 , Hampson, Charles P. 220
2. Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 47.  edited by Sir Leslie Stephen.  Page 134.  "Sir Richard Radcliffe d 1485"
3. Parr Family of Kendal
4. http://genforum.genealogy.com/heron/messages/459.html
5. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PARR1.htm#Margaret%20PARR1_

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