Person:Maud Parr (1)

Maud Parr was the daughter of William Parr, Baron Parr of Horton (c.1480-September 10, 1547) and Mary Salisbury (1484-July 10, 1555). She married Sir Ralph Lane of Orlingbury, Northamptonshire (1509-1540) in 1523, although they did not live together as man and wife until 1527, and was the mother of his three sons and seven daughters, including Laetitia, Robert (1527-c.1588), Ralph (1532-1603), Frances, Mary, Jane, Dorothy, Katherine, and William (d.1580+). In 1540, for a payment of £40, she acquired the wardship of her son Robert and an annuity of £10. In 1543, she entered the service of her cousin, Queen Katherine Parr. She shared evangelical religious views with several other of the queen’s ladies and was at one point in danger of arrest. In the past, several historians misread Lady Lane as Lady Jane and thought that Lady Jane Grey was part of Katherine Parr’s protestant circle when she was queen, but Lady Jane would have been too young at that time. Maud Lane survived Henry VIII’s reign and retired to Horton until her death in 1558 or 1559. She is not, therefore, the Lady Lane who gave Queen Elizabeth a New Year’s gift in 1561/2. That was probably Maud’s daughter-in-law, Katherine Copley (d. March 1563), wife of her son Robert. Biography: Oxford DNB entry under “Lane [née Parr], Maud [Matilda].”

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