Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley

Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley (1476/1480/1481 – 3 December 1553/1556), was an English peer and translator[1], Lord of Morley, Hingham, Hockering, &c., in Norfolk. He was the son of Alice Parker, 9th Baroness Morley, née Lovel (c. 1467 – 1518) and her husband Sir William Parker, who was Privy councillor and standard bearer to King Richard III.[2]

He married Alice St John, eldest daughter of Sir John St John (1426 - 1488) and wife Alice Bradshaigh, and granddaughter of Sir Oliver St John and wife Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso by whom he had an only child Henry, knighted at the coronation of Anne Boleyn and died in his father's lieftime. His daughters Margaret Parker, married John Shelton and Jane Parker married George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, the brother of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn and a son and eventually heir to his grandfather as Baron Morley Henry Parker, 11th Baron Morley (c1531-32 - 1577).[3]

In 1523 he was sent as an ambassador to Germany to present the Order of the Garter to the Archduke Ferdinand (later Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor)[4].

References

  1. ^ Parker, Henry, tenth Baron Morley (1480/81–1556), nobleman and translator, by James P. Carley, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, [1]
  2. ^ Cokayne, G.E., Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol. 5, 1893, G. Bell & sons, p 372 Google Books
  3. ^ Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerage, p417-8
  4. ^ PARKER (1º B. Morley) Henry Parker on tudorplace.com